This week we get our philosophy hats on, take up BooRiot's Read Harder Challenge, recommend weekend reads, and more. 

In  How to Die: A Book About Being Alive(Biblioasis), Ray Robertson contemplates death: he argues that it's neither a morbid nor frivolous to do so, but a fact that is essential to our own happiness. Digging up 1500 years of writing about death, Robertson examines the ... Read more

During CMHA Mental Health Week, we #GetLoud about what mental health really is. From addiction to depression to body dysmorphia, our roundup of 10 books speak to the struggles that mental illness brings.

September 21st marks World Alzheimer's Day, a day where Alzheimer’s organizations around the world concentrate their efforts on raising awareness about Alzheimer’s and dementia. While we're not an Alzheimer's organization ourselves, we definitely support the cause: ... Read more

Schmoozers and Shindigs and Hootenanies, oh my! Get festive with our roundup of publishing holiday parties – with some launches sprinkled in for good measure – across Canada this week.

Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? ... Read more

We're doing a spin on the classic holiday ditty, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” with our 12 Days of CanLit series. Sing along with our countdown of themed book picks, straight down to our number 1 (that’s 78 books in all!).

On the fourth day of 12 Days of CanLit, All Lit ... Read more

If you’re at all familiar with All Lit Up, you know that we tend toward the quirky, the new, the different. Our unique Inspire! preview gives you the lowdown of not-to-miss sessions with some of our fantastic authors and publishers for almost every kind of reader: nine things ... Read more

This week in book events: Playwrights Canada Press celebrates their thirtieth anniversary with a party in Toronto; authors K.D. Miller, Diane Schoemperlen, Ray Robertson, and Matthew Heiti (among others) get wild at Waterloo's Wild Writer's Literary Festival; in Ottawa, Chaudiere ... Read more

One man attempts to cope with the sudden death of his wife and his father’s irretrievable slip into Alzheimer’s disease. Another man just wants to get his “bass face” on.