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Susan Vande Griek on How the Reemergence of Urban Animals Around the World Inspired Her New Picture Book

Anyone who has ever seen a deer, fox, or other skittish wildlife knows that your best bet to catch a glimpse is to stay still and quiet – to pretend, in essence, that you're not there. In The Animals ...

Read an Excerpt From McCurdle's Arm, the New Novella From Baseball-Lit Slugger Andrew Forbes

Acclaimed author Andrew Forbes has worked in a variety of forms, being lauded already for his short fiction, he's also written some of the most definitive non-fiction tomes in Baseball Literature, always ...

Toronto Launch of Women United by Peggy Nash and Julie White

Fired Up About Consent Author Sarah Ratchford on the Books That Brought Them Tears, Lessons, & Laughter

The rallying cry often heard in conversations about consent is the simple truth: consent isn't just sexy—it's mandatory.And it's a topic that we're finally discussing with young people, with the hope ...

Here’s to Summer! - A Reading List

Usually when the warmer months of the year are upon us, our minds turn to all of that fun, relaxing reading we’ve been putting off. There’s just something about summer that makes us fantasize about ...

Unsung Heroes of Literature: Will You Answer My Questions? Interview With Question Mark

Given Question Mark’s status and generally elusive nature, I did not, in any way, expect to be granted an interview. I would describe the email I sent to Question Mark as more of a Hail-Mary pass than ...

Rachel Lebowitz on Her New Favourite Writer, Wuthering Heights, and the Strangest Book She Ever Read

A year with no summer might sound like a fable dreamt up by C.S. Lewis, but in 1816 it actually happened. The eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora in April of 1815 so disrupted the atmosphere that ...

The WAR Series: Writers As Readers, with Kenneth Sherman

Poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman has ventured into the realm of memoir with his powerful new book, Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer (Wilfrid Laurier University Press).Starting from the time of his diagnosis, ...

The Lucky Seven interview with Rolli

Tense, dark, unexpected, and revelatory -- there's a lot of atmosphere and emotion packed into Rolli's The Sea-Wave (Guernica Editions), and its slim footprint, at 168 pages, makes it all the more impressive. ...

On racialized motherhood, writing, and sleep deprivation

The day before my son’s due date, I sent what I thought was the final draft of The Better Mother to my editor. The baby’s bedroom was finished: yellow walls, penguin stencil, gingham curtains. My ...