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.

Our information environment is noisy. Insanely noisy. It has been estimated that by 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...