Eight of the 11 shortlisted books up for the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes in the Canada/Caribbean region are by Canadian authors. Rabindranath Maharaj's A Perfect Pledge (Knopf Canada), Lisa Moore's Alligator (House of Anansi Press), Donna ... Read More »
Last week, one of Toronto’s main book event series, This Is Not a Reading Series, announced a change in venue from its longtime home at The Rivoli, a Queen Street bar and restaurant, to roomier ... Read More »
As Long as the Rivers Flow, a memoir about a young Cree boy’s last summer with his family before being forced into a residential school, is the selection for the 2006 First Nation Communities Read ... Read More »