31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 1: Best Canadian Stories 2026
Zsuzsi Gartner, ed. The thing about Zsuzsi Gartner is she’s fearless. The novelist, short story writer, and editor has long...
Life on the streets: Former homicide chief Hank Idsinga’s new book is a look at three decades spent as a cop in Toronto
Idsinga verges on defensiveness when discussing the Gay Village killings.
In their new examination of the SF and fantasy genres, Jo Walton and Ada Palmer provide an overly optimistic analysis of the field
The audience for this book is likely confined to hardcore SF and fantasy readers and practitioners.
Ange Mlinko and Kevin Young make Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist; founder Scott Griffin to convene town hall to address Canadian poets’ concerns
Griffin has said that he wants to listen to the poetry community in this country with a open mind.
Attend the tale: Caroline Glenn’s debut novel is a slick, sick satire that wears its influences on its sleeve
Glenn proves sharply observant about the acquisitive, beauty-obsessed milieu crammed with influencers and people jockeying to be the next big thing.
A boy’s life: Nova Scotia poet Graeme Bezanson’s debut collection examines the quandary of youthful masculinity
The poems in Ultra Blue could reasonably be read as one long poem broken down into three parts.
Activist groups claims victory as No Arms in the Arts and CanLit Responds end boycott of Giller Prize
More than 500 figures in the Canadian literary world took part in the boycott.
Ol’ blue eyes: Monika Kim’s debut novel is a grotesque howl of Asian feminist rage
Kim's novel goes to some undeniably dark places.
“This is insanity”: Alberta provincial government extends its censorship program to public libraries with proposed new legislation
As a general rule of thumb, whenever a far-right conservative leans on "the needs of the family" to justify a piece of legislation, you can be pretty safely assured they are in the process of trampling on somebody's rights.
Margaret Sweatman’s seventh novel is a thoughtful and nuanced incursion into late capitalism
Sweatman has created a vivid critique of industrial expansion that has demonstrable negative effects on an individual, societal, and environmental level.