From Oprah to the Czech Republic to the pages of Harper's to the business pages of this newspaper, CanLit is a hot topic. Who knew? Certainly not English teachers across the country. Only two short ...

First, Leslie Hurtig ordered a big bulletin board from Staples. Then a pile of Post-it notes, yellow and pink. The new artistic director of the Vancouver Writers Fest (VWF) devised an elaborate system ...

To an immigrant Canadian, such questions are really very tough to comprehend: "Which are the best novels in Canadian literature" or "Who are the most celebrated poets of the country?" or "Who are the ...

Terra Arnone: His account doesn’t spare criticism and it isn’t a love letter, either, but there’s passion in these pages that’s infectious to read You can save this article by registering for free ...

When we are at the verge of the third decade of the twenty-first century, and watching about more than ten thousand books getting published every year in Canada, it seems somewhat unbelievable that ...

U of T Libraries exhibit explores enduring strength of CanLit community A new exhibition at U of T's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library explores a cross-section of the CanLit scene, drawing from the ...

Brave publishers, great books and Canada’s newfound affluence combined to set the scene for the CanLit explosion of the late ’60s “That’s a fair word for it,” says Mount in an interview. Arrival cites ...

The vicissitudes of time and gentrification notwithstanding, it can be difficult to comprehend Toronto through its writers. The bust of poet Gwendolyn MacEwen, who dropped out of school in 1959 at age ...

CanLit's lack of diversity isn't news to Alicia Elliott, a Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Elliott wrote a column titled, "CanLit is a Raging Dumpster Fire." Months ...

In the age of widespread refugee crises, weather events, data mining, corporate greed and totalitarian politics, dystopian narratives are very much on the brain. Toronto writer Thea Lim taps into this ...