Fiction

Omar El Akkad’s new novel What Strange Paradise is driven by outrage over the refugee crisis

My pandemic affair with Captain James T Kirk

French writer David Diop wins International Booker Prize for fiction

Michelle Good’s debut novel, Five Little Indians, chronicles the aftermath of residential school

Morning Update: Ottawa won’t take a stance on waiving coronavirus vaccine patents

Indigenous Voices Awards release short list of emerging writers

Finding comfort in fear: Authors Kelley Armstrong and Kenneth Oppel talk about writing scary stories in a scary time

Yaa Gyasi, Brit Bennett among others up for 2021 Women’s Prize for fiction

Want to deepen your understanding of the U.S. presidency? These novels can help

Supreme Court won’t hear appeal in case of Quebec author acquitted on child pornography charge

Historical fiction is having a moment – and the stories its authors are telling are anything but archaic

Christy Ann Conlin’s The Speed of Mercy paints a stunning portrait of secrets, trauma and female worth

Author Kim Echlin examines the horrors faced by women during the Bosnian war

Jim Balsillie backs new Writers’ Trust prize for public-policy books

Booker-nominated Avni Doshi’s beguiling debut novel Burnt Sugar tackles memory and motherhood

13 new kids’ books to help celebrate I Read Canadian Day

Loved Bridgerton? You’ll fall for this crop of new escapist historical fiction

Virtual interview with Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa disrupted by ‘hacker’: organizers

Author Will Ferguson on writing travel fiction without being able to travel