The Best Books of the Decade
The Walrus asked contributors and staff to pick their favourite titles of the past ten years
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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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Madeleine L’Engle Taught Me the Universe Has Meaning
The Wrinkle in Time author shaped my ideas on nearly everything, from family to illness
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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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Ursula Le Guin Taught Me That Everything I Knew About Sci-fi Was Wrong
In a male-dominated genre, her novels stood out as a new way to write speculative fiction
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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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The Case Against Reading Everything
Writing instructors preach exposure to different voices and styles. They are wrong
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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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Sheila Barry Was the Superhero of Canadian Children’s Literature
As publisher of Groundwood Books, she was the type of editor who would encourage you to jump—and then be your net
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