Sheila Heti
The art of birthing books.
The author talks about her creative process and the birth of her Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel Motherhood.
Canadian Authors
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
Happily never after.
A deliciously macabre read for those ready to make their childhood memories squirm.
Adam Gopnik
Empire state of mind.
The New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik meditates on Manhattan, marriage, and a life of letters.
Recipes from a Canadian Road Trip
Exploring Canadian cuisine.
Feast is an extensive compilation of regional dishes collected along a 37,000-kilometre road trip across Canada.
Wade Davis
A rare breed.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: “You throw yourself on the benevolence of the world, believing some kind of wisdom will come of it.” —Canadian explorer Wade Davis
Not With a Bang
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood.
The world of the near future, already environmentally devastated, is further destroyed by an intentionally released supervirus that kills most of the population
Creative Consult
The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
Let’s, for a moment, play that game “If you could invite anyone to dinner…” Our imaginary table has space for seven guests, each of a different nationality, and all must be living, working masters of their art.
Miriam Toews
Staying power.
Miriam Toews’s 21-year-old daughter, Georgia, answers the door. Georgia is friendly and laconic. She is taking time off university to work, and she occasionally does stand-up comedy—something that requires not only an excellent sense of humour, but a lot of courage and resilience. Maybe these are traits that get ingrained when Miriam Toews is your mother.
Joseph Boyden
A spirited voice.
Over morning coffee at Balzac’s in Toronto’s Distillery District, Joseph Boyden muses about where he feels most at home. “There’s something called the ‘two-spirit person’ in a lot of First Nations cultures,” he says, “meaning somebody who is never completely in one physical place, in one mental place, and I think I’m a bit of a two-spirit person.”
