“We won’t pretend we’re not hungry for distinction / but what can ever distinguish us enough?” asks poet A.F. Moritz in his 1999 collection Rest on the Flight into Egypt. While the answer provided in ... Read More »
March 6, 2019
No sooner has Donna Bailey Nurse finished reading true stories as a member of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction jury than she will begin immersing herself in novels and short fiction ... Read More »
January 28, 2019
Jack Stoddart, a staunch nationalist and one of the drivers of Canadian publishing during the 1980s and ’90s, has died. According to his official obituary, Stoddart died at his home on Jan. 17, 2019. He ... Read More »
January 21, 2019
SHORT FICTION Immigrant City David Bezmozgis HarperCollins, March After forays into novel writing and filmmaking, the newly minted director of the Humber School for Writers returns to the form that first established his name. The ... Read More »
January 9, 2019
Bina: A Novel in Warnings Anakana Schofield Knopf Canada, May One of Canada’s most stylistically provocative and innovative wordsmiths, Irish-born Anakana Schofield returns in May with her third novel (a follow-up to the 2015 Scotiabank ... Read More »
January 7, 2019
When people think of Al Purdy, it is often in the context of his public persona: the fervent nationalist (he was known as Canada’s unofficial poet laureate) and the hard drinking, brawling, womanizing outdoorsman. This ... Read More »
December 20, 2018
“It’s the biggest story [that’s] never been told.” That’s how former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario James Bartleman describes the annual Indigenous Summer Reading Camps program that has been in operation in the province since 2005 ... Read More »
December 13, 2018
The first time Jay Baruchel appears on screen – playing himself – in the apocalyptic comedy This Is the End, he is wearing a Montreal Canadiens cap. He is met at the Los Angeles airport ... Read More »
December 10, 2018
“Poetry,” said Leonard Cohen, “comes from a place that no one commands and no one conquers. … [If] I knew where good songs came from, I’d go there more often.” Those words are part of ... Read More »
November 19, 2018
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