Literature

What Canada lost, when Lee Maracle passed away

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature

Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to U.S. scientists for their discoveries of temperature and touch receptors

Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa among finalists for Ontario’s Trillium Book Award

Rush’s music taught me that I could grow, that I could change

Canadian Labour Congress president Hassan Yussuff set to retire after years of government deal-making

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

Are your kids home from school? Here are 10 books to spark their imaginations in spring 2021

Determined to build a garden this year, I found inspiration in books

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

Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published due to offensive images

British author Kazuo Ishiguro returns with Klara and the Sun, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize

How to recreate the chaotic joy of a classic bookstore browse

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

No shortage of thrillers to whisk you away this winter

Gil Adamson and Jessica J. Lee win Writers’ Trust of Canada awards

Souvankham Thammavongsa’s fairy-tale ending caps a most unusual Giller Prize evening

BIPOC writers like Souvankham Thammavongsa and Ian Williams show an experience of Canada many of us do not know

American poet Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize for literature

One teacher’s quixotic quest to transform how kids learn

Thomas King says making up stories growing up set the stage for being an author

Margaret Atwood and Thomas King together in The Globe's Book Club

Margaret Atwood named 2020 winner of Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award

Globe Book Club: With his wry observations on life, Thomas King educates and entertains

Caroline Adderson’s new novel A Russian Sister imagines the women in Chekhov’s life

Asturias award honours Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson

Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe to forget about his disastrous investments

Canada’s arts sector needs transformative action similar to Works Progress Administration

Richard Ford on his new short-story collection and how lockdown has affected his work

Blind children’s author Jean Little wove tales in which disabilities were part of life

The hope at the heart of Albert Camus’s plague novel, La peste

‘There is more to admire in men than to despise’: The Plague is essential reading for a pandemic

Ten books that offer lessons from past pandemics

The Starless Sea author Erin Morgenstern explores the great literary debate between fate and free will

The small towns that make Canadian literature unique