Casualties of war: Poet Otoniya J. Okot Bitek’s debut novel focuses on the girls kidnapped by the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army
Okot Bitek uses local folklore as a metaphorical way of bringing the girls' experience into relief.
How do we get people to care about the arts? In The Audacity of Relevance, Alex Sarian has some ideas
It's not the idea of relevance itself that gives one pause, so much as where Sarian chooses to place the emphasis.
Internationally bestselling author Louise Penny announces she will not travel to the U.S. due to tariff war
Penny pointed out that her decision to boycott the U.S. was not a reflection on the American public or her readers, but on the actions of the government in power.
John Ford and Clyde Barrow on the road to Key West: The rugged melancholy of Michael Blouin’s Hard Electric
These are not a young man's verses; they are the ruminations of someone in the twilight of middle-age.
Walking the tightrope: Mélikah Abeldmoumen uses the friendship between James Baldwin and William Styron to comment on race, writing, and appropriation
The text is a valuable examination of certain points of dissension or disagreement ongoing in our culture.
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.