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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Margaret Laurence, the celebrated novelist and foundational figure of modern Canadian literature who brought Prairie life to ...

One of the long-held concerns of the international disability community is that the non-disabled world prefers to keep disabled writers confined to a prescribed box wherein we write endlessly and ...

They skitter and scare, bite and sting, but insects also inspire scientists to develop awesome technologies that can help save people and the planet. The nonfiction book Built Like a Bug: How Insects ...