This week we observed International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples with books by Indigenous authors we admire, got chatty about our #ALUbookclub pick The Figgs, contemplated gender and writing, and more.

If the post-holiday funk has hit you hard, and the days are filled with fifty shades of blah, our scientific opinion is to throw some bright yellow shade at it starting with these beautiful book covers. 

You've been following along all this time, so the day nine edition of #unwrapALU is all about deserving to kick your feet up after a life well-lived. One such life-liver is a circumnavigator who decides to cease circumnavigating, and befriends a fox while living in the woods ... Read more

Born in the "halcyon days" of the 1970s, Montreal's Véhicule Press has done anything but live in that idyllic past. From once being Montreal's only printing/publishing co-op, to delivering the first literary criticisms of CanLit giants like Margaret Atwood and Michael ... Read more

Rawi Hage's Cockroach is an unsettling and dark novel about the immigrant experience in Canada. As the panelists of CBC's Canada Reads mentioned, it is just one aspect of a story shared by hundreds of thousands of people across our nation. If you're looking to read another example ... Read more

As huge book lovers, the staff at the LPG is always excited to see what the theme is every year for the CBC's Canada Reads, who the celebrity defenders are, and ultimately, which books will be competing. We're using the five fantastic books chosen to compete in Canada Reads ... Read more