by Steven W. Beattie

Writer Nancy Richler remembered as a “generous person and a tremendously gifted novelist”

When Nancy Richler's agent, Dean Cooke, telephoned to inform her that her third novel, The Imposter Bride, had been shortlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the author was washing her floor. She "acknowledged the ... Read More »

January 25, 2018 | Filed under: Authors

Naben Ruthnum

By Steven W. Beattie

How Nathan Ripley subverts genre conventions in his debut thriller, Find You in the Dark

January 18, 2018

Spring Preview 2018: Fiction

By Steven W. Beattie

Gone girl Claudia Dey’s first novel, Stunt, was a Q&Q Book of the Year for 2008, in addition to being shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Dey’s highly anticipated follow-up tells the story of ... Read More »

January 17, 2018

Remembering Don Coles, 1927–2017

By Steven W. Beattie

Don Coles, the Canadian poet and teacher who died on Nov. 29 at the age of 90, didn't begin publishing until he was 47. That was typical for the poet, who worked slowly and deliberately, ... Read More »

December 11, 2017

2017 Books of the Year: Nick Mount and Elaine Dewar examine the beginning and the end of an era in CanLit

By Steven W. Beattie

In writing about the emergence of CanLit over the past 60 years, both Nick Mount and Elaine Dewar reference the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, 1949–1951, more colloquially known ... Read More »

December 8, 2017

2017 Books of the Year: Carleigh Baker on finding hope that a new openness toward Indigenous stories is emerging

By Steven W. Beattie

When the controversy around Joseph Boyden’s Indigenous heritage broke wide open last year, it did not come as a shock to author and journalist Carleigh Baker. “The Joseph Boyden conversation had been going on for ... Read More »

December 8, 2017

Granta guest editors Madeleine Thien and Catherine Leroux find hope in the “collision of ideas”

By Steven W. Beattie

When guest editors Madeleine Thien and Catherine Leroux finalized the lineup for Granta 141, a special issue of the renowned literary quarterly dedicated to new writing out of Canada, they included an essay by Acadian ... Read More »

November 21, 2017

David Chariandy, Billie Livingston, and Diane Schoemperlen among the winners at the 2017 Writers’ Trust awards

By Steven W. Beattie

The Writers' Trust made it a night for honouring women at its annual awards ceremony in Toronto on Nov. 14. All four prizes for a body of work were presented to female authors, though the ... Read More »

November 14, 2017

William Weintraub, Montreal writer and filmmaker, dead at 91

By Steven W. Beattie

When William Weintraub's debut novel, Why Rock the Boat?, was released in 1961, the author's former colleagues at the Montreal Gazette might have been forgiven for feeling that the title was just a tad ironic. The ... Read More »

November 9, 2017

How Ricochet Books is bringing back forgotten Canadian pulp fiction

By Steven W. Beattie

When people think about Canadian literature, dime-store pulp is not the first genre that comes to mind. That may be an oversight, as literary historian Brian Busby can attest. Busby is the driving force behind ... Read More »

October 12, 2017

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Writer Nancy Richler remembered as a “generous person and a tremendously gifted novelist”

Naben Ruthnum

Spring Preview 2018: Fiction

Remembering Don Coles, 1927–2017

2017 Books of the Year: Nick Mount and Elaine Dewar examine the beginning and the end of an era in CanLit

2017 Books of the Year: Carleigh Baker on finding hope that a new openness toward Indigenous stories is emerging

Granta guest editors Madeleine Thien and Catherine Leroux find hope in the “collision of ideas”

David Chariandy, Billie Livingston, and Diane Schoemperlen among the winners at the 2017 Writers’ Trust awards

William Weintraub, Montreal writer and filmmaker, dead at 91

How Ricochet Books is bringing back forgotten Canadian pulp fiction

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