Gary Barwin will read from Yiddish for Pirates on Nov. 29 alongside the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra’s string quartet as part of their Literary Series.
Sci-Fi Spotlight: Chadwick Ginther brings urban fantasy to the Prairies
St. Mary’s Cemetery inspired Chadwick Ginther’s new novel Graveyard Mind, which centres on Winter Murray, a Winnipeg-based necromancer who prevents the dead from spilling into the lives of the living.
An unmasked meeting with Instagram poet Atticus
Meet Atticus, the Instagram poet who has built a career reading for hundreds from behind a mask.
Eden Robinson talks making movie magic out of her novel Monkey Beach
It’s laughs, camera, action as Eden Robinson reports from the film set of the long-gestating adaptation of her novel Monkey Beach.
Jessica Aldred on how video games like the Bioshock series have much to teach us about our past, present, and future
It has never been more crucial for game studies and game culture to revisit its “canonical” texts through the intersectional lenses of gender, sexuality, race, and class.
Prolific author and editor David Helwig dies at age 80
David Helwig, who died on Oct. 16 at 80 after a life marked by multiple debilitating health issues, was one of the most prolific and certainly one of the most versatile Canadian literary figures of the past 50 years.
Author and activist Patti LaBoucane-Benson appointed to the Senate
Edmonton educator and researcher Patti LaBoucane-Benson has been named one of three new appointees to the Canadian senate.
Septuagenarian Queen’s Park protester and author Ester Reiter “one of the best storytellers I know”
Between the Lines managing editor Amanda Crocker says working with Reiter was never boring.
Naomi Klein named Rutgers’ inaugural Gloria Steinem chair
Bestselling author Naomi Klein has been named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey.
Q&A: Canisia Lubrin speaks to Dionne Brand about her two new books, The Blue Clerk and Theory
Dionne Brand, one of the country’s most respected and beloved writers, returns this fall with two books: The Blue Clerk and Theory.