Catherine Quaglia and Dana Corbett are not new to bookselling. But after decades of dreaming about owning their own ...
The five panellists for this year’s competition – and the books each panellist has chosen to champion – will be announced on Jan. 22.
Lawyer and activist and author Michelle Good and children’s author Elizabeth MacLeod are among the literary and publishing world’s recently appointed Members of the Order of Canada for 2025. Governor ...
Jack Wang’s The Riveter unfolds as a haunting wartime epic destined for the Canadian canon. Josiah Chang yearns for Poppy Miller, yet discriminatory laws forbid their marriage. Choosing to prove his ...
After my arrest in 1983 as one of the urban guerrillas branded by the media as the Squamish Five, I had the chance to personally witness the changes in the prison regime that occurred from the time of ...
In “Enough Trouble” from Casey Plett’s new fiction collection A Dream of a Woman, Gemma, “a professional drinker and a sloppy hooker,” couch-surfs her way back to her hometown. The unnamed city of ...
Over the few days in March I spent reading Jacob Wren’s new novel, the so-called “one per cent” were in the headlines a lot: billionaire blowhard Donald Trump had all but sewn up the Republican ...
What is a “Haida manga”? It’s been a decade and a half since Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas published the first book bearing this evocative epithet, and the landscape of graphic novels has continued to ...
Greg Younging, the publisher of Theytus Books, the oldest Indigenous publishing house in Canada, passed away on May 3. The Penticton, B.C., press where he worked as managing editor from 1990 to 2004, ...
When it comes to questions of provenance, who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and who wrote the Band’s songs are a couple of oldies but goodies. Famed literary critic Harold Bloom spent his life highly ...
When Ashley Audrain worked in public relations, she wrote fiction on the side. But when she took the director of publicity position at Penguin Canada, where she worked until 2015, she gave up her ...
Jack David has told the origin story of ECW Press so many times he’s not even sure if it’s true anymore. In 1973, he was talking with some of his fellow grad students before a Canadian poetry class at ...