That seems to be the hot question. So hot that it’s been much in the news lately (see an earlier…

The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced its 2015 shortlist. The Canadian finalists are: Congotronic, Shane Book (House of Anansi Press)…

According to reports, adult colouring books are now among the top bestsellers on Amazon. As with the recent debate over…

Not, apparently, in university English departments. At least they don’t seem to have any for popular romance novels.  But perhaps…

Are young writers and old writers just different ends on a continuum of age, or are they separated by a…

Though there are plenty of bestsellers out there written by people who want to share the experience. But now some…

Fanfiction is popular on the Internet, sure, but does it belong in the classroom? Elizabeth Minkel, a fanfic fan, takes a closer…

As opposed to cellphone fiction, which is another story. Steve Himmer discusses the place of modern communication technology in literature,…

You may  not have heard of the expression “continuation novel.” What it refers to is when one novelist writes as…

What was the greatest year ever for books? If that sounds like it’s just a parlour game for literary types, that’s because…