31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 12: As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories
Pierre has done a good job bringing together pieces that cover a range of styles and subjects.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 10: “The Thunberg Pledge” by Robert McGill
The attention Tim pays to language is not incidental; it is in fact significant character information.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 5: “My Tumour” by Jen Currin
Currin's story centres on the disjunction between Lise's more sensible attitudes and Matthew's wild suppositions.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 1: Best Canadian Stories 2026
The thing about Zsuzsi Gartner is she's fearless.
Life on the streets: Former homicide chief Hank Idsinga’s new book is a look at three decades spent as a cop in Toronto
Idsinga verges on defensiveness when discussing the Gay Village killings.
In their new examination of the SF and fantasy genres, Jo Walton and Ada Palmer provide an overly optimistic analysis of the field
The audience for this book is likely confined to hardcore SF and fantasy readers and practitioners.
A boy’s life: Nova Scotia poet Graeme Bezanson’s debut collection examines the quandary of youthful masculinity
The poems in Ultra Blue could reasonably be read as one long poem broken down into three parts.
Activist groups claims victory as No Arms in the Arts and CanLit Responds end boycott of Giller Prize
More than 500 figures in the Canadian literary world took part in the boycott.
Margaret Sweatman’s seventh novel is a thoughtful and nuanced incursion into late capitalism
Sweatman has created a vivid critique of industrial expansion that has demonstrable negative effects on an individual, societal, and environmental level.
Elbows up? Eight books from Americans and no Canadians on 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist
Griffin's sunny confidence about Canadians' ability to "sit with the best internationally" is being sorely tested.