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February 25, 2020A Love Letter to Scarborough Writers
To busy writers, penning poems on the back of receipts, scribbling into notebooks on Line 3 — this is for you.I rarely find time to sit down and write anymore. Instead, I create fragments wherever I ...
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September 21, 2015A Love Letter to the Tpl and to Ya Fiction – and an Interview with Cameron Ray
If you've been reading along, you'll know I’ve been really interested in literature’s ability to help people to change, and the literature that I always felt changed me most was what I read when I ...
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April 12, 2019A Map of Reading From Zero to Infinity
“Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, in groups, or individually.” (Paul Saenger’s Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading)Around ...
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July 27, 2021A Message of Hope: Silmy Abdullah's Debut Story Collection Spins Beautiful Tales of Migration, Family, & Self
When home is in flux, our sense of who we are can feel unanchored too. Enter writer and lawyer Silmy Abdullah's debut collection of short fiction, Home of the Floating Lily (Dundurn Press), which, ...
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May 21, 2025A Missing, Celebrity Feline is at the Centre of Another Case in Mystery at the Biltmore #2: The Classified Catnapping
Our featured title today is the second book in the ongoing, acclaimed Mystery at the Biltmore series (Pajama Press), which has been enticingly billed as "Only Murders in the Building meets Harriet ...
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November 30, 2017A New National Emblem
Canada is a land of plenty. But it is a state poor in symbols. Our national emblems are few and time-worn. Canada’s plant is the maple tree, which, in an annual strip tease, releases red leaves clogging ...
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December 04, 2017A New National Emblem Revisited
I was too hasty the other day. For nice, polite Canadians, the spider icon is just too darn ornery. In true Northern fashion, I apologize. We need something more civil yet found from coast to coast ...
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January 28, 2025A New Poetry Collection from Irene Marques Invites the Reader to Re-Enter Their Truly Bare Bones
Our featured poet today, Irene Marques, is an internationally renowned academic and author, with her many works published in a multitude of languages. In her latest collection, Marques focuses on "the ...
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January 25, 2017A Passage to Academia
I cannot separate Anupama Mohan from the context of school. I met her in university while she was completing her PhD. A fan of film, Shakespeare, and critical theory, she impressed our professors, took ...
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November 12, 2017
A perfect day for noir horror!
It's the perfect day for a dash of horror! Noir horror, at that! we’re chatting with Nick Cutter, author of The Acolyte, The Deep, The Troop and most recently, Little Heaven. Nick, thank you for ...
