Montreal author Irena Karafilly explores grief and infidelity in her novel Tunes for Dancing Bears
Karafilly's narrative places its two main characters in a situation that puts an extreme stress test on their already fractured marriage.
A European sensibility infuses the stories in Montreal resident Mikhail Iossel’s latest story collection
Iossel's chosen technique has the paradoxical effect of simultaneously speeding the prose up and slowing it down.
Is Canada a failing democracy? In his new book, Andrew Coyne argues that the signs are not good
Coyne argues that Canada "is not a fully functioning democracy."
“Everything is finite”: Saad Omar Khan on Muslim identity, writing as documentation, and his debut novel, Drinking the Ocean
"There's something to be said about the 'you' as a writer when you first start a manuscript and the 'you' as the editor when you finish it."
M&S has “support of the estate” for redacted text in Alistair MacLeod story, says publisher
Alexander MacLeod, Alistair's son and a fellow M&S author, said he had "no knowledge of this change."
McClelland & Stewart excises racial epithet from a story in the new Kanata Classics version of Alistair MacLeod’s Island
Better not to include it in this series at all than to include it in even a mildly bowdlerized form.
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.