Canlit

The winner of the 2014 Giller Prize expounds on the thin line between fact and fiction, and the value of the digital world

Book review: Hilary Mantel’s ’The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher and Other Stories’

Book review: Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud’s ’Quartet for the End of Time’

Ann-Marie MacDonald revisits a bout of adult-onset rage in her barely fictional novel

In the wake of her futuristic MaddAddam trilogy, Atwood’s new short-story collection are back in the present. With a burning vengeance.

Prizes and critics are in love with short stories these days. It’s those pesky readers . . .

Brian Bethune’s essential guide to Canadian literature

From 2013: Inside the remarkable triumph of the world’s greatest storyteller

A subtle examination of the business of being the queen of CanLit

Plus, an excerpt from the author’s semi-autobiographical novel, which details a harrowing journey from Vietnam to Canada