Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books of 2020
From a dystopia that vilifies sleep to a heartbreaking account of the end of a life, here are some of our leading contemporary writers’ favourite books of the year
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The Author Who Shaped the Way We Represent Disability
Mainstream entertainment rarely allows people with disabilities to exist as we are. Jean Little’s work taught me there’s no shame in writing about our experiences
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How COVID-19 Infected the Publishing Industry
The pandemic has pushed booksellers and publishers to the brink
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How to Break Every Rule of Contemporary Writing and Succeed
Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s new book cracks open the tired tradition of the postmodern novel
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The Poet Whose Work Helped Set the Stage for #MeToo
Twenty-seven years after her death, Bronwen Wallace’s feminist poetry feels newly relevant
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The Poet Who Warns Us Not to Revere the Past
The work of Newfoundland poet Tom Dawe tackles the dangers of nostalgia
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The Challenge of Addressing Slavery in Children’s Stories
Where history has ignored the lives of Black Canadians, writers like Christopher Paul Curtis have turned painful realities into powerful narratives
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Climate Fiction’s Unhelpful Obsession with the End of the World
We already have plenty of stories about the apocalypse. Now, we need ones that imagine new futures
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Elizabeth Smart Died in 1986. Her Work Still Haunts Me
Poetic genius, bohemian, copywriter: she taught me to never compromise
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