A cultural planner's modest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change...

A phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world...

'Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they'd turned in an essay on V...

What is the best way to tell a story?

Recite your poem to your aunt.I threw myself to the ground.Where were you in the night?In a schoo...

How artists make a living and how money changes art

When Water Became Blue

From one of Africa’s most acclaimed writers, poetry about the Nigerian-Biafra war

From an innovator of autofiction comes a meditation on grief, care, Buddhism, and artmaking.

'This poetry collection is fierce, raw and candid. By recounting her mother’s residential school ...

A revolutionary anthology of essays and dramatic works by contemporary disabled theatre artists

WINNER OF THE 2015 GILLER PRIZE

WINNER OF THE 2015 GILLER PRIZE

Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Annihilation in this poetic space-age fable of proletari...

Contemporary responses to biblical texts offer hope and guidance in difficult times.

A Mad Libs-style project contends with poetry from Turtle Island and Palestinian writers and asks...

A lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult-favourite poet and author of The ...

Women, Walking

A twenty-first-century reconsideration of the occasional poem by contemporary writers.

An irreverent, laugh-out-loud pastiche of free verse, hallmark card, bad truism, picture book, ad...

Interstellar via Invisible Cities: spec-fic translated from Spanish imagines a utopian way of lif...

Poems that look at our little world from space

Minor earthquakes every day; that's what they say. Lucy feels the tremors like a needle sensitize...

The craft of craft, the art of craft - here in Canada we're just starting to really talk about th...

Although firmly rooted in the real, Lillian Necakov's evocations of 'movie magic' prove irresisti...

Selected as the 2012 Title for One Book Toronto

Can a bad mayor make a city better?

How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?

An argument over a black rose begins this mischievous novel about anarchism, fire-breathing, murd...

Filled with millennial dread and suburban oddity, this novel parties (or worries) like it's 1999.

Enciphered in a bacterium, The Xenotext is the world's first living poem.

The debut collection of visceral short fiction from notorious Toronto writer, editor, indie comme...

Closer

Kicking ass and taking notes-what it's like to be a woman in the ring. Alison Dean teaches Englis...

Pompoms, blackberries and Value Village: Take a stroll through the thoughts of one of Canada's mo...

Home is where the heart is, or, in the case of The Sink House, home is what the heart is. Sequest...

Drama. Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada's most intriguin...

A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live.

Fiction. Translation. Playful, innovative and subversive, Nicole Brossard's writings have profoun...

An unflinchingly subversive, aversive, conversive poetic look at the underbelly of Canadian settl...

From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its diss...

Poems chronicling the contemporary self's fluctuating desire between near-obliterating connectedn...

Desire and dieffenbachias: new poems from the award-winning author of Otter.

'From the author of Maidenhead, a reverse cautionary tale about a young woman exploring the bound...

'In Surface Tension, poetry is liquified. Flowing away from meaning, letters and words gather and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION

WINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION

Eschewing prevailing poetic fashion, 'Sooner' reimagines poetry as a kind of cubist fascination, ...