During his final days, Peter Unwin’s father talked a great deal about sports. Through an oxygen mask, one eye blind from a ...

Alistair MacLeod publishes his one novel, No Great Mischief. It was a very big deal at the time. The master’s masterwork.

Looking ahead to the festival’s next decade, Richardson hopes to see FOLD continue to do what it’s already doing – “but better.” ...

Our information environment is noisy. Insanely noisy. It has been estimated that by 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be created each day. That is a monstrously huge number, roughly equal to 212,765,957 ...

Six Canadian books are among the 71 titles longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. This year marks the 30th for the €100,000 prize, which is worth about $147,000. The longlist features books ...

New Star Books is closing down. In a statement posted to the Vancouver-based independent press’s website earlier this week, publisher Rolf Maurer said he had made the “painful decision” to wind down ...

I’m a book blogger. Recently, a writer emailed me to complain about a negative review I posted for his book. Specifically, he said that since he is a local author, my review was damaging to his ...

Five books have been named to the 2025 Canada Reads shortlist.

Vancouver-based literary nonprofit Upstart & Crow has launched a new poet-in-residence program. The residency includes a $4,000 grant, access to the upstairs studio of Upstart & Crow’s bookstore on ...

The Kingston Writers Festival is no more. In a press release issued this month, the festival announced it was closing because of “mounting financial pressures,” caused in part by reduced attendance ...