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A new wave of Canadian poets are giving us poems as complex and varied as the country itself
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Why We Need to Stop Calling Women Crazy
In her memoir Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot reveals the often messy truth about female trauma
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Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Radical Poetry
The twenty-three-year-old Cree poet believes in the political power of clear writing
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Don’t Be Such a Snob about Popular Fiction
Kelley Armstrong is a bestselling Canadian author. So why don’t her books get any CanLit respect?
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The Stories We Tell About Our Fathers
Bill Gaston’s new memoir examines his dad’s life—and our fears that we all become our parents
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Can Fiction Truly Capture the Mind of a Tyrant?
Dimitri Nasrallah’s new novel tells a timely story about the fall of a strongman dynasty
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The Hawaiian Queen Who Taught Indigenous Writers to Resist
By connecting the fight for justice across generations, Indigenous writing has found its moment
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How One Writer Is Using Thrillers to Explore Misogyny
Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s first novel taught women how to get away. Her new novel teaches them how to fight back
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