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 ...

When Bob Tyrrell founded Orca Book Publishers in 1984, it was not with the plan to become a children’s book publisher. Orca’s first title was a guide to Vancouver Island’s pubs co-authored by Tyrrell ...

In 2016, Ian Thornton was walking through his downtown Toronto neighbourhood with his two small children. He wasn’t thinking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emily St. John Mandel feels like a tourist in the world of money. She lives in New York City, home to the largest population of millionaires and, according to one report, 78 billionaires. It’s a city ...

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 ...

In 1941, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges published a story called “The Library of Babel” about an infinite and eternal ...

If I was ever going to take the leap into running my own business, it was always going to be bookselling,” says Sarah ...

It all started with a vision. For Rick Wilks and Anne Millyard, co-founders of Annick Press, that vision was to support youth by encouraging them to write, “address their thoughts, feelings, fears, ...

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 ...

Maggie Helwig has won the 2026 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The annual $40,000 prize, administered by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, recognizes literary nonfiction about a political ...