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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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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