For our final week of our July book club, we've rounded up four follow-up reads to Shani Mootoo's Polar Vortex (Book*hug Press) that'll keep the reading times rolling.

Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light is participating in BookRiot's  Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series will highlight one of her completed challenges along with ... Read more

Another frosty weekend? No problem. Just cozy up with one, or all, of three ReLit Award winners below, and we'll see you back on Monday.

While  certain  books talk about the life-changing benefits of travel, indie CanLit usually doesn’t play like that. Our settings are cold, unforgiving, sooty. Inns are haunted or derelict, proprietors grisled, if not absent entirely. In the spirit of this cruel tradition, ... Read more

Today kicked off the 2016 Canada Reads competition: five books are in the ring that signify "starting over". Their characters, situations, and relationships all start anew. With debates that were equally heartfelt and articulate from all five defenders, it was the seasoned fighter ... Read more

It’s been quite an exciting year for indie publishers in Canada; three of five Giller Prize-nominated books on this year’s shortlist were published by indies (congratulations to Biblioasis and Coach House Books!) and André Alexis won that prize, plus the Rogers’ Writer’s ... Read more

There's tons going on this week, including Vancouver Writers' Fest, our second LPG40 event, this time in Montreal, and the International Festival of Authors in Toronto and surrounding area. BUT: if you go and do anything this week, make sure you VOTE first. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. ... Read more

WAKE UP from that Turkey-coma: there's literary events to be had. If you're in Toronto, be sure to  celebrate the LPG's 40th Anniversary with us at Ben McNally this Thursday. And if you're not, there's tons of great things going on Canada-wide, like WordFest in Calgary! ... Read more

We’re already in the thick of Literary Festival Season, with great events like Halifax’s Word on the Street and Winnipeg’s Thin Air Festival already in session or just passed. We’re here with a roundup of what’s yet to come, so clear your calendar! Things are about ... Read more

In our column Character Study, we typically highlight certain attributes and tangible traits of some of our favourite ALU characters: the gold bikini of Bunny and Shark ’s Bunny, for example, or Thomas from New Tab’s social media addiction. But, given ... Read more