Nearly 60 years after it was founded, Fitzhenry & Whiteside has a new owner. President and CEO Holly Doll is retiring, and Sutherland House Books will be taking over the backlists of Fitzhenry & ...
The phone call was unexpected. “Richard’s writing is very vivid, it’s very much on the page, and it’s very poetic,” Robertson says. “So, it was easy to envision the story as a picture book.” Robertson ...
When Martin Arnold Kruze ended his life at age 35 by jumping from the Bloor Street Viaduct on Oct. 30, 1997, he had been used and betrayed not only by pedophiles employed at Maple Leaf Gardens, but ...
In 2016, Ian Thornton was walking through his downtown Toronto neighbourhood with his two small children. He wasn’t thinking ...
Arizona O’Neill’s newest work – the full-length graphic novel Opioids and Organs – emerged from a need to channel a family tragedy, a personal obsession, and almost a decade of research into what ...
Guess where I am calling you from?” I ask author David Chariandy, who is on the phone from his home in Vancouver, where he teaches at Simon Fraser University. David jokingly asks back, “Is it a few ...
When Indigo Books and Music announced earlier this year that it had received an offer to go private, it was the latest in a long string of headlines for the bookstore chain. First, there was a ...
In 1941, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges published a story called “The Library of Babel” about an infinite and eternal ...
Celebrated author Thomas King has revealed he has no Indigenous ancestry. King was born and raised in California but has lived in Canada since moving to Alberta in 1980 to teach Indigenous studies at ...
If I was ever going to take the leap into running my own business, it was always going to be bookselling,” says Sarah ...
Three writers have been named the winners of the 2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The award, established in 1994, grants $10,000 annually to a writer of fiction and poetry. It is ...
Margaret Laurence, the celebrated novelist and foundational figure of modern Canadian literature who brought Prairie life to ...