Sean Michaels: When the story is stranger than fiction
The winner of the 2014 Giller Prize expounds on the thin line between fact and fiction, and the value of the digital world
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Canlit
A deadly new collection of short stories
Book review: Hilary Mantel’s ’The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher and Other Stories’
The echoes and rattles of lyrical literature
Book review: Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud’s ’Quartet for the End of Time’
Caught in her own hall of mirrors
Ann-Marie MacDonald revisits a bout of adult-onset rage in her barely fictional novel
Margaret Atwood returns from the future, to this moment
In the wake of her futuristic MaddAddam trilogy, Atwood’s new short-story collection are back in the present. With a burning vengeance.
Short stories are beautiful, but will they sell?
Prizes and critics are in love with short stories these days. It’s those pesky readers . . .
How to Be a Better Canadian: Read
Brian Bethune’s essential guide to Canadian literature
Alice Munro: Never too much happiness
From 2013: Inside the remarkable triumph of the world’s greatest storyteller
Margaret Atwood Inc.
A subtle examination of the business of being the queen of CanLit
Giller Prize nominee Kim Thúy on the fragility and power of books
Plus, an excerpt from the author’s semi-autobiographical novel, which details a harrowing journey from Vietnam to Canada