Alice Munro Was Bigger than Canada
Here artists are celebrated by virtue of their nationality. Munro showed me I could escape those tropes
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Rachel Cusk’s Parade Turns the Novel Upside Down
In the book, characters exist, sort of, but they’re mostly artists, and they’re almost all named G
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The Fun, Frank, and Completely Miserable Poetry of Barfly
Michael Lista’s new collection of poems should come with a Health Canada warning
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Alice Munro, Nobel-Winning Author, Dies at Ninety-Two
A Canadian master of the contemporary short story passes away
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Yes, It’s Okay to Throw Away a Book
We love acquiring, hoarding, and displaying books even more than we love reading them
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How Should a Diary Be? Sheila Heti Scrambles Her Life in Alphabetical Diaries
Heti takes her autofiction to the next level by publishing her journals—with editing help from Excel
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The Shunned Literary Genius of Samuel Selvon
When a giant of Caribbean literature moved to Calgary, Canadian critics ignored him. He probably didn’t care
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Why So Many Authors Are Writing Multigenerational Stories
Several new books grapple with displacement and diasporic living in ways that feel particularly resonant in this moment
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How Do You Even Sell a Book Anymore?
As sales slump, the labour of trying to bottle hype is largely left to writers
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The Case for Never Reading the Book Jacket
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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