“Maybe writers have our own separate hell”: Lindsay Wong talks about villain hitting, corpse marriage, and her debut novel
"Villain hitting is what women do when they have no choice."
Hot for teacher: Jennette McCurdy’s debut novel, about a high-school student’s affair with her creative writing instructor, intends to provoke
McCurdy's method is predicated upon an ironic distance between Waldo's narration and the reader's ability to see through it.
A deal with the Devil: How a ninety-year-old novel from a Nobel Prize winner’s son maps onto our current political moment
Mann's novel closely mines the contradictions in his protagonist's character.
Ottawa’s Mark Bourrie recognized as a recipient of the Governor General’s History Award
Administered by Canada's National History Society, the awards, which were established in 1996, are given out in five categories.
Oh, Canada: Former CBC head Richard Stursberg critiques our current literary climate in a new long essay
Stursberg diagnoses a number of maladies causing our current situation, some more persuasive than others.
Giller shakes things up with an all-bookseller jury for 2026
"We wanted to highlight independent booksellers and the important role they play in the literary community."
Clinging to the flotsam: James Sallis examines the classic era of paperback noir fiction
This is one of the things Sallis insists on: the idea that commercial fiction can contain insights every bit as profound as those in more high-minded literary novels.
“Always carry a book”: Patty Krawec offers an alternative reading list in her literary survey Bad Indians Book Club
Krawec is reading as an activist first, not as a literary critic.
21st century kitsch: Cultural critic W. David Marx examines the state of our art in his book Blank Space
Marx argues that the 21st century has been typified not by artistic innovation or renovation, but by a capitalistic retrenchment.
Sixteen books that helped put 2025 in perspective
What our literary output offers is not a vision of perfectibility but an attempt to reckon with our world in all its contradiction, ambiguity, and fractiousness.