Catherine Quaglia and Dana Corbett are not new to bookselling. But after decades of dreaming about owning their own ...

Lawyer and activist and author Michelle Good and children’s author Elizabeth MacLeod are among the literary and publishing world’s recently appointed Members of the Order of Canada for 2025. Governor ...

Jack Wang’s The Riveter unfolds as a haunting wartime epic destined for the Canadian canon. Josiah Chang yearns for Poppy Miller, yet discriminatory laws forbid their marriage. Choosing to prove his ...

Come around the campfire and let me tell you the tragic tale of what befell #OwnVoices. In 2014, Asian-American authors Ellen Oh and Malinda Lo started the diversity campaign #WeNeedDiverseBooks.

It’s been just over 24 hours since parts of Ontario saw their first snowfall of the season, Courtney Summers’s corner of the province among them. But the scene out her window is far from Hallmark ...

If you’ve noticed that Canadian children’s book authors and illustrators seem to be garnering a lot of attention lately, you’re not alone. International awards and recognition and a ton of buzz are ...

Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing for Tanning Moosehides: The Northern Saskatchewan Trapline Way by Tommy Bird, Lawrence Adam, Lena Adam, and Miriam Körner.

Among Chinese people, the phrase “Have you eaten yet?” is shorthand for “How are you?” This colloquial greeting, writes filmmaker Cheuk Kwan, “shows that you care. Because of war, famine and poverty, ...

In The Inquisitive Raven, volume two of the Richard Wagamese Storybook Collection, the ever curious Reuben learns an important lesson about self-acceptance after trying to soar like a bald eagle.

Celebrated author Thomas King has revealed he has no Indigenous ancestry. King was born and raised in California but has lived in Canada since moving to Alberta in 1980 to teach Indigenous studies at ...

Two decades after the last dictionary of Canadian English was published, work is finally underway on a new Canadian dictionary. Editors Canada announced in February that the professional organization ...

The idea of “safe harbour” began as a nautical concept, referring to a place of safety for seafaring vessels during wartime or storms. It is neither a departure point nor a destination, but a ...