Anne Michaels and Deepa Rajagopalan are among the five authors shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize
With fully three-fifths of the nominations, the Giller shortlist continues the hot streak for Penguin Random House Canada.
Canisia Lubrin and Kent Monkman among five nominees for the Governor General’s Literary Awards
Also of note is the publication dates of these books, none of which was published after February 2024.
Latin American shivers: Mariana Enriquez’s latest collection locates the uncanny in the lives of women and marginalized Argentinians
The twelve stories in A Sunny Place for Shady People, ably translated by veteran collaborator Megan McDowell, hold their social subtexts more or less on their metaphorical sleeve.
Novelist and mentor Keith Maillard awarded the B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
Maillard says he was "moved ... humbled and grateful" to find out he had received the award.
Horror 101: Jeremy Dauber’s American Scary offers a cursory overview of more than 300 years worth of scares
As a primer for the uninitiated, American Scary has a certain value.
Sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, and CanLit pettiness collide in Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s latest novel
For a writer who notably eschews the aesthetic approaches involved in social realism, Kilworthy Tanner is his most reader-friendly work to date.
Three of five Atwood Gibson Prize nominees are writers who pulled their books from Giller contention
The two other nominees for this year's prize also appear on the Giller longlist.
Naben Ruthnum, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Camilla Grudova are included in an anthology perfect for shorter days with chillier temperatures
The most blazingly unforgettable tale in the anthology has to be EC Dorgan's "Prairie Teeth."
Punk feminist Virginie Despantes delivers a philosophical epistolary novel about #MeToo, Covid, and addiction
Not pissing people off is something Despentes could rarely be accused of attempting.
Literary nightmares: Nineteen writers contribute to an anthology about the spooky side of literature
The books in these stories are dangerous not just for the ideas they contain, but the wounds that they inflict.