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Simu Liu shares his acting origin story
In this excerpt from his memoir, We Were Dreamers, actor Simu Liu shares how he ditched his gig at Deloitte for a wildly successful acting career.
Joshua Whitehead takes on CanLit
In ‘Making Love With the Land,’ Whitehead moves between genres and languages in a series of essays that open up a whole new window on the meaning of Canadian literature
What do you do when your mother is Miriam Toews?
Debut novelist Georgia Toews is carving her own literary path, with some sage advice from her celebrated parent
Is it ethical to have kids in the climate crisis?
Researcher Britt Wray grapples with bringing new life into a dying world
Six must-read books for April and May
An ode to Canada’s lost buildings and a memoir by Elamin Abdelmahmoud are among our picks for the best books of the season
Emily St. John Mandel can’t stop writing about pandemics
Her novel Station Eleven imagined a world ravaged by a pandemic long before COVID-19 existed. Now, she’s gone through one herself.
Meet the muses behind Robert Munsch’s most iconic stories
They were the kids who inspired some of the legendary author’s best-loved stories. Now, they’re all grown up.
Zarqa Nawaz had a hit show, then a decade-long dry spell. She’s ready for her second act.
She had a hit with Little Mosque on the Prairie. Then came a years-long creative slump–until she landed a book deal and TV series on the same day.
Heather O’Neill on Sarah Polley
Polley became famous when she was 11. Her story’s gone untold–until now.