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 ...

Margaret Laurence, the celebrated novelist and foundational figure of modern Canadian literature who brought Prairie life to the page in her five-book Manawaka cycle, would have turned 100 years old ...

Although the latest novel from Gordon Korman sports a less-than-stellar cover illustration, the story is up to Korman’s usual standards and his many fans will not be disappointed. The Chicken Doesn’t ...

Almost everything you need to know about Karen Solie’s first collection of poetry is contained in her title, Short Haul Engine. This slim volume of poems burns with the intensity of an engine, firing ...

If a ballad begins with the birth of its central figure – think Davey Crockett on a mountaintop in Tennessee – where does that leave this account of Danny Wolfe, born in Regina, three months premature ...

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 ...

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In The Franklin Conspiracy, popular-science writer and playwright Jeffrey Blair Latta attempts to add John Franklin’s lost 1845 Arctic expedition to the list of conspiracy theories that include the ...

The subtitle of Allan Levine’s ambitious history of Toronto may seem as stolid as the city’s British founding families, but it doesn’t take long for the reader to realize how carefully chosen 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 ...