Dig Deep: The Authors of the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Shortlist
This year’s crop of nominees for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award boldly went where they hadn’t before—narratively speaking
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Steven Heighton’s Posthumous Book Is a Reckoning with Death
Instructions for the Drowning offers a glimpse of the closure the author may have hoped for
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Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books of 2022
From historical fiction to arresting poetry, the best books of the year picked by some of the country’s leading writers
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Vivek Shraya Proves Kids’ Books Can Help Us Explore Messy Truths
Revenge of the Raccoons flips the narrative about the much-despised pests. But it’s also a story for grown-ups
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Will John Irving’s The Last Chairlift Stand the Test of Time?
For decades, the celebrated author ruled the public’s imagination. But times change—how will he be read now?
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Siopao Is More than the Sum of Its Parts
Learning to make the ubiquitous Filipino dumpling taught me about my culture and my family
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Ann-Marie MacDonald on Exile, Imagination, and Her New Gothic Ghost Story
The writer insists that her books have happy endings—“insofar as there is someone left to tell the tale”
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My Harry Potter Podcast Made Me a Better Scholar
I was taught to separate my feelings from my work. Making Witch, Please showed me the value of opening up
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Book Cover Confidential: A Roundtable with Designers
Three insiders reveal where industry trends are headed
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