Freedom to Read Week 2025: When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
Barbara Kay took to the pages of the National Post to complain about the government having "wasted tax dollars on this values-void novel."
Up in smoke: Ben Kaplan’s new book captures the chaotic and character-filled early days of legal weed in Canada
It's a wild, unconstrained tale that brings together, somewhat improbably, politicians and scofflaws, Bay Street business types and countercultural rebels, the Tragically Hip and Snoop Dogg.
The sounds of silencing: In a new polemic, Ira Wells argues that censors are active on both the left and right
Moral certitude makes for strange bedfellows.
Giller Prize drops Scotiabank, loses two jurors
Two jurors – Jordan Abel and Aaron Tucker – have been quietly scrubbed from the Giller Prize website.
Independent Canadian publishers respond to Trump’s tariffs with caution, confusion
The chaotic nature of the tariff rollout, while not surprising from the Trump administration, is nevertheless a challenge in trying to determine how best to respond.
House of Anansi’s Spiderline imprint is undergoing a rebrand, branching out into other genres
The inaugural title in Spiderline's "new direction" was An Ordinary Violence by Adriana Chartrand.
Remembering Andrew Pyper, the bestselling author who shattered boundaries between literary and genre fiction
“When you look back in fifty years on the great writers in Canadian literature, I think he’s going to have to be included in that.”
Fifteen worthy reads from a tough year
Even in a year fraught with anxiety and discord, writers connected with readers to provide succour, solace, entertainment, and provocation.
Charges withdrawn for four of five protesters arrested after 2023 Giller Gala disruption
Maysam Abu Khreibeh, a Palestinian writer and organizer, called the 2023 protest the "bare minimum" that could be done to push back against the ongoing conflict in Gaza
Students at Sheridan College launch a campaign to rescue the Creative Writing and Publishing program
"I think the preservation of administrative salaries at the upper echelons is the priority."