Every morning, Louise Penny counts her blessings. There was a time when she felt she had none to count, but now, it’s a morning routine – and most mornings, it takes a while. Penny has her eye on the ...

The title of John Ralston Saul’s newest book, A Fair Country, sounds like a rejected Liberal Party campaign slogan, but its contents are much more combative, provocative, and stimulating than anything ...

Robert Pickton has been accused of crimes that, if he’s convicted, would make him the worst serial killer in Canadian history. But few Canadians could likely name even one of the women he is charged ...

Greg Younging, the publisher of Theytus Books, the oldest Indigenous publishing house in Canada, passed away on May 3. The Penticton, B.C., press where he worked as managing editor from 1990 to 2004, ...

Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing for Tanning Moosehides: The Northern Saskatchewan Trapline Way by Tommy Bird, Lawrence Adam, Lena Adam, and Miriam Körner.

The overwhelming sentiment of James Raffan’s troubling Deep Waters is that the 12 boys who drowned in the 1978 Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy never had a chance. Raffan, an experienced canoeist and ...

Among Chinese people, the phrase “Have you eaten yet?” is shorthand for “How are you?” This colloquial greeting, writes filmmaker Cheuk Kwan, “shows that you care. Because of war, famine and poverty, ...

Six books have been named finalists for the 2025 Lane Anderson Awards. The annual prize, created to bolster the writing of popular science, is administered by the Fitzhenry Family Foundation. Winners ...

Man, interrupted: in July of 1988, the life of 44-year-old ex-CFL star Terry Evanshen took such an extraordinary turn that it would come to resemble an ancient myth, a legend of the gods’ rough ...

It’s obvious how trees in myth and literature enter the public imagination – Eden’s tree of knowledge, the Bodhi tree, Tolkien’s Ents, H.C. Anderson’s fir tree – but how trees become famous in real ...

The list was compiled by Halifax journalists Trevor J. Adams and (occasional Q&Q contributor) Stephen Clare, based on the votes of more than 700 authors, critics, librarians, professors, booksellers, ...

The books will be exhibited across Canada at Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, University of Alberta, Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University, National Gallery ...