Cazzie David: I have been reminded in the last two weeks why it was so horrible. Obviously, it’s so lucky to have a book published, but it’s hard to know if it’s worth the agony. Talking about it ...

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Anne Fadiman's "Frog and Other Essays" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a modest book -- 192 pages, seven essays, a slim spine ...

In this Q&A, Brown University Associate Professor of Literary Arts Karan Mahajan discusses his forthcoming novel, teaching ...

There is anguish and confusion that the ‘prince of the humanities’ has fallen so far ...

Van Schaik made the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist for her essay An Ounce of Care . She was also a finalist for the 2017 CBC Short Story Prize for The Peninsula of Happiness which became one of ...

Within a year of publishing her debut novella, Hardly Strangers, Robinson had secured an agent, sold a short story for film adaptation, and signed another book deal. Her journey underscores 831’s ...

What Do You Want To Remember? is a personal essay by Jessica Moore, co-winner of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for translation. It is part of Life, Rearranged, a special series of new, ...

In the early 1970s, there was talk of paying writers a guaranteed minimum income – the same rate as federal backbenchers.

Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way ...

In a time defined by rapid transformation, evolving social priorities, and the growing influence of ideas, The Literature Today is proud to celebrate a dynamic group of prominent literary voices ...