Rogers Writers’ Trust: An excerpt from winner André Alexis
Read a selection from the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner’s novel, ’Fifteen Dogs’
True North Strong Free. Subscribe today.
Books
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Oct. 27
The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
Rachel Cusk: ’On a winding road in the dark’
We profile the authors of the books nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize this year. Here, Rachel Cusk, author of Outline, describes her autobiographical focus
A nightmarish read from J.K. Rowling’s alter ego
’Career of Evil,’ J.K. Rowling’s latest under her nom de plume Robert Galbraith, presents a dark, twisted detective story
The great, wholly legal bank robbery
A new book looks at why it’s so expensive to be poor, and how it threatens democracy
Inside the machinations and magic of pop music
A writer delves into the largely anonymous, fascinating machine that churns out today’s pop hits and tells their human stories
André Alexis: ‘Shut up and keep writing’
André Alexis, who won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize, gives advice on writing and discusses the link between the pen and the mind
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Oct. 20
The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
The Biblipod: Ian Brown on ’geezer lit’ and his new book, Sixty
Anne Kingston in conversation with Ian Brown
City on Fire is a deeply engaging investment of time
The fall’s most anticipated fiction debut is also possibly its best-paid