Here artists are celebrated by virtue of their nationality. Munro showed me I could escape those tropes
In the book, characters exist, sort of, but they’re mostly artists, and they’re almost all named G
Michael Lista’s new collection of poems should come with a Health Canada warning
A Canadian master of the contemporary short story passes away
We love acquiring, hoarding, and displaying books even more than we love reading them
Heti takes her autofiction to the next level by publishing her journals—with editing help from Excel
When a giant of Caribbean literature moved to Calgary, Canadian critics ignored him. He probably didn’t care
Several new books grapple with displacement and diasporic living in ways that feel particularly resonant in this moment
As sales slump, the labour of trying to bottle hype is largely left to writers
I don’t want to be told what’s going to happen and I definitely don’t want to be told what the book is “about”
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