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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The overwhelming sentiment of James Raffan’s troubling Deep Waters is that the 12 boys who drowned in the 1978 Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy never had a chance. Raffan, an experienced canoeist and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Blade of Grass, the first novel from Toronto writer and painter Lewis DeSoto, is an impressive, if flawed, debut, a compelling examination of race and place, the personal and the political, in South ...

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 ...

Four different publishers rejected Stella, Star of the Sea. The picture book, which would turn into a series, an animated show, and theatrical plays, finally found a home at Groundwood Books after its ...