Jordan Peterson’s upcoming book has opened up a clash of values at its publisher
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
Books
Mary Lawson: Why I write about the Canadian Shield
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’
Isabel Allende on her lifelong feminism and the women who made her career possible
Beloved Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende talks to Brian Bethune about her new book, ’The Soul of a Woman’
A Christmas Carol, but during the 2020 pandemic
“Has no one come to my funeral because large gatherings are forbidden in the pandemic?” The figure shook his head no.
Books provided a welcome escape from screens during the pandemic
As objects that are perfect in a lockdown, books are making for good business during the COVID crisis. Will it continue into 2021?
The 20 books you need to read this winter
An eclectic selection of just-published new fiction and non-fiction to get us through the nights of winter ahead
All the ways the pandemic could change cities forever
Abandoned office towers, empty subways, deserted cafés—post-pandemic, many cities will never be the same
How the Hudson’s Bay Company shaped Canada’s history—and its borders
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.
In a new book series, Canadian critics grapple with COVID-19 and racism
An ongoing series of book-length essays called ’Field Notes’, features political and cultural critics who comment on the pandemic and anti-racism movements
How Rush lived, worked and rocked through the 1980s
’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.