Joshua Whitehead takes on CanLitIn ‘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
Meet the muses behind Robert Munsch’s most iconic storiesThey were the kids who inspired some of the legendary author’s best-loved stories. Now, they’re all grown up.
Heather O’Neill on Sarah PolleyPolley became famous when she was 11. Her story’s gone untold–until now.
Giller Prize-winning author Omar El Akkad’s powerful writing is making a markThe Egyptian-Canadian author is turning journalistic savvy into literary clout. He’s on this year’s Maclean’s Power List.
Sheila Heti redefines what a novel can beThe author set out to write a book ‘that no one can say what it’s about.’ And possibly created a whole new genre.
How the most connected man in Toronto came back from deathBob Ramsay’s memoir explains how he survived a brush with death–for love
An idiosyncratic survey of great Canadian readsRandy Boyagoda’s picks for CanLit to curl up with this winter
How CanLit was bornBrave publishers, great books and Canada’s newfound affluence combined to set the scene for the CanLit explosion of the late ’60s
How the Steven Galloway affair became a CanLit class warA petition. A counter-petition. Apologies. Accusations. Canada’s most beloved authors have found themselves embroiled in an ugly controversy