Step onto crunching parchment, hold out hands, and press the hallway walls as codices to down- stairs. As if the…

At Calgary’s Pages Books, Gaiman, Murakami, and Cusk make happy bedfellows with Canadian independent presses and 6 translations of Madame Bovary.

Montrealer Enid Louise Cushing’s 1956 mystery debut, “Murder’s No Picnic.”

Our popular national myth has it wrong: Canada has always prioritized the transport of goods over people.

“The plate just bent and bent,” she is saying. “I told them. The Slave Craton’s the oldest rock on the planet. It doesn’t move. It was never going to move. Something else had to.”

Tony Calzetta and Gabrielle de Montmollin’s move to Welland.

Sheep, penguins, and military history all play roles in the remote archipelago’s reinvention of itself.