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The Chat With Elan Mastai

This week we’re in conversation with Elan Mastai, author of the much-buzzed about debut novel All Our Wrong Todays.

The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen in Comic Book History

Before Ms. Marvel and Jessica Jones, there was Torchy Brown and Gale Allen. Hope Nicholson gives us the lowdown. 

Shelf Talkers: Six New Books to Usher in Spring 2017

Our hardy crew of independent booksellers has recommendations for every eventuality, from guides to take you outside (down to the dirt or up to the skies) …

Giller Prize Special: The Chat With Eden Robinson

Next in our Giller Chat Special, Eden Robinson, author of the much-heralded new novel Son of a Trickster, the first in her Trickster trilogy.

Poetry Must-Reads for Spring

Poetry collections are to springtime what ripe peaches are to late summer, and let me tell you: the crop this year is splendid.

The Recommend: April 2017

Picks from Joanna Lilley (If There Were Roads); Matt Murphy (A Beckoning War), Robert McGill (Once We Had a Country); Samantha Rideout (The People Who …

Raising Royalty: The Canadian History

Carolyn Harris on Canada's contribution to the changing conversation about royal parenting through the ages. 

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Books on Cooperation

These picture books make good springboards for discussion on cooperation and the complexities involved when people work together.

Writing the World

Books about travel, migration and immigration that show us what we can learn by going to find ourselves—as readers and people—in places where we don't …

We All Come From Somewhere: On Canadian Immigrant Women's Stories

"I was an outsider. I did not belong. But far from threatening, I was lonely, clueless and utterly terrified." 

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