On World Teachers’ Day, Susanne Marshall reflects: “teaching is both a generous and a selfish impulse, and I often think I’m the one who gains the most.”

“October is Canadian Library Month, and thank goodness for that. There’s no public institution that’s been as formative and memory-filled for me as my local library.”

Understanding the depth of our literary history and the breadth of style, scope and subject of our fiction, poetry, and drama brings us together as a cultural unit.

To celebrate International Literacy Day, our editors choose their favourite Canadian books for newbies and fans alike. Happy reading!

For various reasons, “Canadian” fiction seems often to evoke a specific kind of narrative: probably historical; probably set in a beautiful part of remote, rural Canada where the weather is particularly bad; probably dense and focused upon psychological disturbance. Unsettling. Vaguely depressing. If you ask my students, many of them will simply roll their eyes [...]

George Grant’s Lament for a Nation stirred discussion of Canadian nationalism when it was first published in 1965. Its central concern is just as relevant today as it was then.