

In Calgary on Saturday, the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association celebrated the winners of the 2012 Aurora Awards as part of the organization's annual convention and the city's When Words Collide festival. The night's ... Read More »

The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there's no shortage of new releases from marquee names. In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the fall's ... Read More »

Essayist and humorist David Rakoff, whose darkly comic work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and The New Yorker, among other publications, has died. After two years of treatment for a malignant ... Read More »

Lit lovers who spent the long weekend in cottage country needn't fear they've missed out. There's plenty of bookish happenings across the country this weekend, like these ones selected from Q&Q's events calendar: The Fish ... Read More »

The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there's no shortage of new releases from marquee names. In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the fall's ... Read More »

Lovers of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror can get a taste of what's in store at the upcoming 2012 World Fantasy Convention with the recent release of the 2012 World Fantasy Awards shortlist. Canadian nominees include ... Read More »

When Kim Jernigan joined The New Quarterly in 1981, she was eight months pregnant, newly arrived from Boston (her husband, Ed, had just joined the engineering faculty at the University of Waterloo), and a master's ... Read More »
August 8, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there's no shortage of new releases from marquee names. In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the fall's ... Read More »

The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there's no shortage of new releases from marquee names. In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the fall's ... Read More »

Best-selling Irish author Maeve Binchy died in hospital Monday night after a short illness. She was 72 years old. "Maeve was a great storyteller," says International Festival of Authors director Geoffrey Taylor, who came to ... Read More »
July 31, 2012 | Filed under: Book news