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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Alice Munro, Nobel-Winning Author, Dies at Ninety-Two
A Canadian master of the contemporary short story passes away
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Forget That Stuff about Mounties, Hockey, and Corny Beer Commercials
As Canada changes, the people writing its books—and the stories they tell—are changing too
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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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20 Years of The Walrus: Fiction
Novel excerpts and short stories by Tanya Tagaq, Heather O’Neill, Sam Shelstad, and more
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Sarah Bernstein Breaks the Rules in Study for Obedience
The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told
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Hadfield, We Have a Problem
The acclaimed astronaut’s latest novel fails to blast off
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