The evolution of a Halloween chant
Watch Your Language: Voices from the past
YA and the big why
Christine Walde didn’t intend to be a YA author, but she’s getting used to it
God loves a joke
Religious writers have two choices, writes Anne Hines: despair or laughter. She chooses the latter
Love and remains
Alissa York on the dead animals found in her fiction
Collecting history
Historian Ted Barris on a hidden source of historical secrets
Finer Points: Imported Slang
Serial quiller
Todd Babiak on punk rock vegans, ideal readers, and the terror of writing a serialized novel
In praise of sticklers
Lawrence Scanlan on the unsung heroes of book publishing – the copy editors
Border guard blues
Wayne Johnston on the obstacles that face a writer crossing the American border