Feminism Posts
The Chat with Andrea Warner
Who remembers the 90s, and the music that ruled the airwaves?
Good news! Andrea Warner’s seminal book We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and …
Pushing Back
A recommended reading list by the author of the new novel Minique.
8 Books that Shaped Me As a Writer
A recommended reading list by the author of bestseller Looking for Jane.
GGBooks Special: The Chat with Hannah Moscovitch
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be chatting with each of this year’s seven English-language winners of the Canada Council Governor General’s Literary …
Her Turn: A Conversation With Katherine Ashenburg
"I think as I wrote Her Turn I wanted to combine Shields’ dry wit and a certain ironic distance from her characters with genuine affection for them—especially …
The Chat with GG's Literature Award Winner Anne Carson
“Norma Jeane Baker of Troy leverages a millennia-old story of beauty and war to animate a history of the male gaze and the nature of power wielded by …
Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo
We are pleased to present three poems in the important new collection edited by Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sue Goyette. PLEASE NOTE: This poetry anthology …
On Telling the Truth in Politics
An excerpt from new memoir The Queer Evangelist, Cheri DiNovo's story of her life as a queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights. …
Me and Bridget Jones (20 Years Later)
Erika Thorkelson's "Me and Bridget Jones (20 Years Later)" is one of the essays in Midlife, a new essay collection exploring a group of writer friends' …
Aimee Wall on The Great Canadian Abortion Novel
"I didn’t want the plot to turn on an abortion or the decision to have one. Any conflict or tension is rooted elsewhere."