Hitting the rhetorical fan: The Star’s public editor rebukes author Stephen Marche for his use of a particular epithet in a column
Well, shit. Writer Stephen Marche seems to have stepped in it. Shit, that is. At least, that was the determination...
Bag man: In U.K. writer Luke Kennard’s fourth novel, a struggling actor agrees to a bizarre experiment
What is germane here is the powerful irony in the idea that the narrator feels more at home as black bag than he does in his own skin.
Kate Cayley, Trina Moyles among Governor General’s Award winners
Cayley prevailed in a shortlist composed entirely of women.
Zak Jones wins Atwood Gibson fiction prize; Nalo Hopkinson wins inaugural Andrew Pyper award at Writers’ Trust gala
British Columbia writer Robert Moor won the $75,000 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
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M. John Harrison becomes the oldest pure SF writer to win the Booker Prize for The End of Everything
"Though very unsettling, The End of Everything is not in fact a strange book. It's a realist book about a strange world."
ACP, TWUC praise new cultural inputs in 2026 budget, but questions remain
"These commitments recognize the essential role Canadian publishers play in our cultural and economic lives."
To AI or not to AI: Prix Goncourt winner admits using tech in writing his novel, weeks after another author was disqualified
Jaenada claimed to have used AI in three instances in the book.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, David Bergen, and Téa Mutonji among authors pledging to boycott Indigo over CEO’s charitable organization
This is not the first time pro-Palestinian figures from the literary community have targeted Reisman and Indigo.
In her debut graphic novel, Danila Botha uses vibrant colour and expressionistic flourishes to tell the story of a Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor
"It's important to be conscious of treating people with humanity all the time."