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A drawing of a lighthouse on top of some rocks, but the reflection in the water is of a few houses

Books / October 2014

Rock Modern

September 23, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Nick Mount

In Sweetland, Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey has created CanLit’s next great curmudgeon

A cartoon of two people typing at their computers

Books / October 2014

Why Good People Write Bad Prose

September 15, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Gary Stephen Ross

Steven Pinker brings science to Strunk and White

Books / September 2014

Dead Ringer

August 27, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Angelo Muredda

In his debut novel, a filmmaker cannibalizes himself

Two girls holding books in front of their faces

April 2014 / Books

Never-Never Land

March 18, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Emily Landau

Don’t blame millennials for new-adult fiction

Books

Donald Winkler

December 5, 2013October 6, 2018 - by Julien Russell Brunet

An interview with the winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation

Books / November 2013

The First Giller

November 4, 2013July 1, 2016 - by Shyam Selvadurai

When CanLit got its glam

Books

What Are You Reading?

July 10, 2013October 6, 2018 - by The Walrus

A summer survey of Walrus writers, artists, and readers

Photograph by MCpl Dany Veillette, Rideau Hall

Books

Linda Spalding

December 6, 2012January 25, 2021 - by Stacey May Fowles

The Governor General’s Literary Awards interview series

Books

Nigel Spencer

November 28, 2012April 6, 2014 - by Julien Russell Brunet

The Governor General’s Literary Awards interview series

Books / January/February 2012

Lost Boy

January 12, 2012August 8, 2020 - by Emily Landau

With his parody of children’s books, Highly Inapproriate Tales for Young People, Douglas Coupland joins his Gen X peers, revelling in nostalgia. Isn’t it time to grow up?

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Lost Boy