HarperCollins Canada’s new reprint line raises questions about cultural sovereignty and what constitutes a classic
The impetus for HarperCollins Canada's Canadian Classics program does not, in one sense, have anything to do with Canada at all.
The side of the angels: Sharon Bala’s second novel examines the conflicted motives of a struggling NGO
What Bala provides in Good Guys is a master class in irony.
“We pay attention”: The stories in Nina Dunic’s debut collection address the ways we connect – or don’t – with one another
Many of the stories in Suddenly Light deal with separation, either emotional or literal.
“Computers and cellphones have ruined fiction and movies”: Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson on historical Toronto, James Earl Ray, and his new novel
Stefanovich-Thomson's writing has been described as "maple noir."
The old ballgame: Three Canadian writers find ongoing fascination in the sport of baseball
Forbes's book provides a useful bridging text between those of Mooney and Smith.
As Ottawa’s VERSeFest marks its sixteenth year, rob mclennan reflects on its importance
VERSeFest arose out of a push to get the city's various poetry reading series – be they slam, stage, or page focused – to collaborate on a single event.
Calgary student prevented from performing Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang poem at a local Poetry in Voice recitation competition
The choice of poem is "an act of protest" against the climate of misogynistic abuse that teens and adult women are subject to on a daily basis.
Sanctimonious certainty and bipartisan bullshit: Ray Robertson addresses the cleavages that separate us in The Right to Be Wrong
The biggest intellectual culprits in our current sociopolitical culture, Robertson suggests, are surety and self-righteousness.
A puppet’s life: The debut novel from Hollay Ghadery features a highly unusual narrator
Technically, Ghadery's novel follows the Aristotelian unities of time, space, and action.
“Maybe writers have our own separate hell”: Lindsay Wong talks about villain hitting, corpse marriage, and her debut novel
"Villain hitting is what women do when they have no choice."