Canada’s Cantankerous Aardvark
Cerebus, which turns forty this month, is one of the funniest, most innovative, and most offensive comics ever made
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The Best Cookbooks Make Room for Creativity
The Redpath Canadian Bake Book boasts more than two hundred recipes, but it’s missing the most important ingredient: magic
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Does Writing About Boredom Have to Be Boring?
In his new novel, Montreal author Guillaume Morissette takes the life out of millennial fiction
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The Modesty and Mastery of Don Coles
He taught a generation of young writers that poems take work and patience
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Will a Posthumous Story Collection Help Canada Forgive Norman Levine?
After his unsparing portrait of the country in his 1950s travelogue, he was shunned by the literary elite
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Michael Redhill’s New Novel Leaves Readers Seeing Double
The Toronto author’s Giller-winning book is a philosophical thriller on identity
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How Margaret Atwood Learned to Type
At sixteen, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale sat down with her parents’ portable Remington for the first time
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Novelist Confronts the Fiction of a Progressive Toronto
David Chariandy’s award-winning book explores family, race, and police violence
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How Jean Paré Taught Canada to Cook
The Company’s Coming author has sold 30 million books by perfecting everything from casserole to pie
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The Wonderful World of Canadian Snacks
From ketchup chips to Wagon Wheels, a new book tells us why our junk food is the best
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