In the prologue to his now-iconic “Two Solitudes,” Hugh MacLennan professed to have written “a novel of Canada.” The book was published in 1945, and one can imagine the patriotic enthusiasm that the ...

Canadian authors don’t get much love from their compatriots. The English-language share of sales of books by Canadian authors in this country fell to only 13 per cent in 2017 from 27 per cent in 2005, ...

“In Canada, we have sometimes been forced to choose between how we feel about our country and how we feel about good books,” Andy Lamey writes in The Canadian Mind: Essays on Writers and Thinkers. In ...

My Canadian childhood featured zero igloos and only three polar bears (all of whom lived in a zoo). Most of my early years were occupied not with snowshoeing or ice fishing but with reading. Most of ...

In focus at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Canada showcases the "singular plurality" of its literature — a diversity indigenous authors definitely contribute to. Many Germans' literary image of Native ...

I left Russia as the country slid into authoritarianism and arrived in Canada knowing no one. In its novels, I found a blueprint for how to survive as a nation in the age of anger. Right now, this ...

There was nothing, and then there was something. That’s how Nick Mount describes the start of Canadian literature, but it’s also an apt way to explain his new book, Arrival: The Story of CanLit, on ...

The idea that anything approaching an authoritative analysis of Canadian fiction, or nature-writing, or aboriginal writing, can be undertaken in essays of 20 pages or so is almost laughable. But ...

CBC Books has highlighted great works of Asian-Canadian literature as part of Asian Heritage Month. CBC producer and Asian-Canadian history enthusiast Adrian Ma looked at some novels he found to be ...

A new book by Elaine Dewar illuminates the curious sale of iconic Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart — and what it means for Can Lit Maclean’s presents an instalment in our patriotic video series ...

Canada is the Guest of Honour (GoH) for the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest trade fair for books, social dialogue and cultural exchange. The fall book fair annually selects a country as ...

Jason Camlot was chatting with his new boss in the English department of Montreal’s Concordia University in 1999 when he spotted a dusty cardboard box of 80 reel-to-reel tapes in a corner of the ...