Sixteen books that helped put 2025 in perspective
What our literary output offers is not a vision of perfectibility but an attempt to reckon with our world in all its contradiction, ambiguity, and fractiousness.
Pulling at the seams: Mark Bourrie’s Ripper examines the rise and popular appeal of Pierre Poilievre
Bourrie transcends a simple biography and creates a snapshot of our riven historical moment.
Kagiso Lesego Molope ejected from last night’s Politics and the Pen event after condemning violence in Gaza
The incident occurred during the annual Ottawa fundraiser for the Writers' Trust of Canada.