The photo is arresting enough on its own, even from a distance. A group of seven people, the men in suits, the women in blouses and long skirts, posed formally around a dining table on which is ...

Aaron Williams has been named the winner of the 2025 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Williams won the $10,000 prize for his second book of nonfiction, The Last Logging Show: A Forestry ...

Kevin Van Tighem’s Understory: An Ecologist’s Memoir of Loss and Hope asks readers to look past the trees and kneel down to see the plants, insects, and birds that fill the forest floor. He ...

Shani Gwin is optimistic that a new AI tool under development will help people maintain and strengthen their relationships. The tool, wâsikan kisewâtisiwin, which means kind electricity in Cree, uses ...

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Collins, who has been executive editor at Random House Canada since 2021, will be retiring in March 2026 after 27 years with Penguin Random House Canada.

Kev Lambert doesn’t like to be placed in boxes. The Montreal-based author of 2022’s ferocious novel Querelle of Roberval and its newly translated follow-up, May Our Joy Endure (both books are ...

The finalists for the 2025 CCBC Book Awards have been announced. Handed out by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, the seven awards celebrate exceptional books for young people.

A wooden Iroquois healing mask, bearing brilliant eyes and a mass of black hair, sits abandoned in the home 12-year-old Cass Foster and her mother inherit unexpectedly. With its eerie sense of ...

In the early 1940s, an anonymous patron commissioned Anaïs Nin and several of her literary chums to write erotica for a dollar a page. This man, who Nin referred to as The Collector, gave her the ...

Since winning the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature for Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, Cree-Lakota-Scottish writer Monique Gray Smith has published three ...

Come around the campfire and let me tell you the tragic tale of what befell #OwnVoices. In 2014, Asian-American authors Ellen Oh and Malinda Lo started the diversity campaign #WeNeedDiverseBooks.