Short story month 2024: Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and giant of the short story, dies at 92
One need only read a few sentences of Munro's writing to understand that one is in the presence of literary genius.
Short story month 2024: The struggles of immigrant characters are at the heart of Deepa Rajagopalan’s debut collection
The best stories in the book are less assiduous in cuing their reader as to how to react in any given moment.
Short story month 2024: The peripatetic, restless fiction of Clark Blaise
Characters in Blaise's fiction are constantly on the move.
Kagiso Lesego Molope ejected from last night’s Politics and the Pen event after condemning violence in Gaza
The incident occurred during the annual Ottawa fundraiser for the Writers' Trust of Canada.
Recent incidents at Queen Books and Little Ghosts in Toronto shine a spotlight on the incursion of American-style transphobia into Canada
Public support for booksellers who are outspoken about their advocacy for LGBTQ+ individuals and communities seems strong.
Short story month 2024: Sara Power navigates the emotional terrain of wives and mothers in her debut collection
A number of these stories focus on military families. But the broader theme is the status of women and their struggle for independence and autonomy.
Paul Auster, Brooklyn’s postmodernist par excellence, dies at 77
Auster has been called many things: "the most meta of metafictional writers," "the patron saint of literary Brooklyn," a "literary superstar."
Unpopular uprisings: Debut novelist Avik Jain Chatlani charts Peru’s uneasy history of Maoist insurgency
The novel is broken down into four, more or less discrete sections.
Salman Rushdie’s terse memoir offers a highly personal reckoning with the public attack that almost claimed his life
"Art is not a luxury. It stands at the essence of our humanity, and it asks for no special protection except the right to exist."
Federal Liberal budget includes “modest” increase for the Canada Book Fund, but one group describes it as a “net loss”
The relatively small top-up to the CBF included in this year's budget does not come close to fulfilling the Liberals' promise.