Books

Employees at Penguin Random House Canada speak out on how they’re rethinking their workplaces and why publishing, writ large, should weigh its moral responsibilities

The Canadian novelist on her profound, unreasoning love of the landscape: ’The the way the mist lifted slowly off the lake in the early morning, the smoothness of water sliding over your skin, the clear looping call of the whippoorwill’

Beloved Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende talks to Brian Bethune about her new book, ’The Soul of a Woman’

“Has no one come to my funeral because large gatherings are forbidden in the pandemic?” The figure shook his head no.

As objects that are perfect in a lockdown, books are making for good business during the COVID crisis. Will it continue into 2021?

An eclectic selection of just-published new fiction and non-fiction to get us through the nights of winter ahead

Abandoned office towers, empty subways, deserted cafés—post-pandemic, many cities will never be the same

A new book explores the significant Indigenous influence on HBC’s expansion and how, for all its many evils, the company kept vast swaths of Canada from becoming part of the U.S.

An ongoing series of book-length essays called ’Field Notes’, features political and cultural critics who comment on the pandemic and anti-racism movements

’Rush were celebrating everything it meant to be Canadian,’ writes Martin Popoff in ’Limelight: Rush in the ’80s.’ Read this excerpt from the second volume of Popoff’s biography of the legendary band.