Michael Helm’s novel After James (McClelland & Stewart) was published this September to widespread critical acclaim. Ambitious and virtuosic, it’s a…
Marc Bell was asked to design the cover for this year’s Best American Comics anthology. Brad de Roo spoke to him about the process.
Genre has never been an impediment for writer, journalist, humourist, and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, the “blue-eyed Ojibway” whose almost 30 books include…
I don’t know what to do with Corb Lund. If Ian Tyson weren’t alive, then he might be the only…
Based on a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, André Alexis’ new novel, The Hidden Keys (Coach House Books), is the…
When I first read Don DeLillo’s White Noise as an over-eager third-year English major, it felt like a revelation. This…
Oshawa, Ontario-born, Vancouver-based Jay Hosking’s Toronto-set first novel, Three Years With the Rat (Hamish Hamilton), combines time travel to sci-fi noir…
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf), Vancouver-born, Montreal-based Madeleine Thien’s latest novel, explores the Cultural Revolution and 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations through the eyes…
EARLY in 2006 I signed a contract with Knopf Canada to write a biography of Mordecai Richler. The advance was in…
For several decades now, McGill professor Robert Lecker has been one of the best academic commentators on the CanLit profession. That…