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FNA Shortlist: Five Questions for Stéphane Larue
Larue is nominated for the 2020 FNA Award for his novel The Dishwasher
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FNA Shortlist: Five Questions for Andrew David MacDonald
MacDonald is nominated for the 2020 FNA Award for his novel When We Were Vikings
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How Not to Write a Book about a Minority Experience
Publishers increasingly lean on outside experts to vet books for cultural insensitivity. Is it working?
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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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The Secret Lives of Canadian Superheroes
Marvel’s Alpha Flight made Canada cool in the 1980s. Following the Raptors’ championship win, the comic is back
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Multiculturalism Is Not the Real Story of Canada
Two new novels explore what it means to be Black in a country that prides itself on tolerance
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When Is It Women’s Time to Speak?
In Miriam Toews’s new novel, women in an isolated Mennonite colony debate how to move forward in the aftermath of sexual assault
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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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