Jack Rabinovitch – the Montreal-born businessman and philanthropist who died in Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital on Aug. 6, at the age of 87 – changed the face of Canadian literature on account of a broken heart. ... Read More »
August 10, 2017
Toronto tales Three forthcoming novels turn their attention to different neighbourhoods in Canada’s most populous city. David Chariandy’s long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed debut, Soucouyant, explores the confluence of masculinity, race, and violence in the ... Read More »
June 26, 2017
For Kevin Hardcastle, being a writer has a lot in common with training as a fighter. The author, who hails from the town of Midland, in Ontario’s Simcoe County, is an aficionado of mixed martial ... Read More »
June 26, 2017
This summer, Doubleday Canada will publish A Stranger in the House, Shari Lapena's hotly anticipated follow-up to her blockbuster 2016 thriller, The Couple Next Door. But, somewhat surprisingly, the Aug. 15 Canadian pub date does ... Read More »
May 16, 2017 | Filed under: Authors
The fallout from Hal Niedzviecki's controversial editor's note in the most recent issue of the Writers' Union of Canada's Write magazine continued unabated throughout the past weekend. Niedzviecki quickly resigned as editor of TWUC's official ... Read More »
May 15, 2017 | Filed under: Book culture
The numbers are as sobering as they are troubling. According to André Picard, The Globe and Mail’s health columnist, Canada’s combat mission in Afghanistan yielded 158 casualties among soldiers. That figure is high enough on ... Read More »
April 17, 2017
Geoffrey Taylor, the director of the Toronto Harbourfront International Festival of Authors, has been bestowed with a particularly prestigious international honour. Taylor has been named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the ... Read More »
March 27, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
A 2015 memoir about a Cree trapper's childhood experiences in a northern residential school has been chosen for the inaugural One Book, One Province Saskatchewan program. The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir, ... Read More »
March 1, 2017
Richard B. Wright, whose 2001 novel Clara Callan is a bona fide CanLit classic, has died at the age of 79. Wright, who lived in the Ontario city of St. Catharines, died unexpectedly from a ... Read More »
February 8, 2017 | Filed under: Authors
Margaret Atwood, Gord Downie, Alanis Morissette, and Rosemary Sullivan are among more than 2,000 writers, musicians, and visual artists who have signed their names to an open letter asking the government to support the creative ... Read More »
February 8, 2017 | Filed under: Authors, Writing life
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