Can the Giller be saved? Without an injection of funds, Canada’s glitziest literary prize may be forced to close at the end of the year
This is, to put it mildly, a difficult time for an arts organization to be chasing funding.
Bindu Suresh discusses puzzle plots, blending genres, and leaving space for the reader to inhabit in her new novel, The Road Between Us
"I very quickly realized that it didn't need to change, I didn't need to make it more traditional."
Hustle and grift: Adnan Khan’s second novel, The Hypebeast, extends and elaborates the themes from his debut
The Hypebeast extends Khan's interrogation of masculinity and machismo in immigrant communities.
A live podcast event featuring Anne Michaels celebrates one year of The Walrus’s partnership with Nathan Whitlock’s What Happened Next
This is not the first time Whitlock has contemplated a live conversation for his podcast.
Heather Birrell’s debut novel finds a high school English teacher going into labour during a lockdown
Birrell employs a variation on Faulkner's structure in As I Lay Dying.
Canadian Chanel Sutherland wins the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Sutherland says the structure of the story was "a risk" that arose out of her belief that "every enslaved person deserves to have their story told with dignity."
Elbows Up! anthology from M&S aims to update an earlier volume of patriotic and nationalistic essays
Certainly Canadian cultural nationalism does not look the same today as it did in 1968.
McClelland & Stewart launches Kanata Classics as an act of reconciliation to reclaim and expand the literary classics space
"It became really clear that Canadian publishers generally are not putting enough effort into the classics space."
Choice cuts: In The Butcher’s Daughter, Canadian writers David Demchuk and Corrine Leigh Clarke reimagine one of Broadway’s nastiest bakers
The Butcher's Daughter may best be enjoyed by those unfamiliar with The String of Pearls or the musical Sweeney Todd.
“We is all we have”: Science, nature, and politics intertwine in Derek Webster’s National Animal
The poems in National Animal do not cleave to unidirectional pieties about nature or the resilience of humankind.