Don Coles, the Canadian poet who died on Nov. 29 at the age of 90, took great pains to ensure adherence to Jonathan Swift’s formula for good writing: proper words in proper places.
Daily Deals: Random House picks up Lori Lansens’s We American Girls; BookThug acquires Jocleyn Parr’s settler colonialism project
Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming January titles
Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council.
Distribution Change: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
2017 Year in Review: The year’s biggest headlines
The year’s news in review.
2017 Books of the Year: Nick Mount and Elaine Dewar examine the beginning and the end of an era in CanLit
What Arrival and The Handover remind us is simply this: the calls to burn down the edifice of CanLit are only possible because there is something there to burn down in the first place.
2017 Books of the Year: Carleigh Baker on finding hope that a new openness toward Indigenous stories is emerging
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.
2017 Books of the Year: Covers of the year
Graphic designers share their thoughts on four of this year’s exceptional book covers.
Copyright reform, Canada Book Fund dominate publisher lobbying in Ottawa
A group of Canadian indie publishers and representatives made their annual trip to Ottawa on Nov. 28 in hopes of lobbying for increases to funding and copyright reform, as well as overall protection of the publishing industry.
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