For the first time, the Giller Prize has named a jury made entirely of independent Canadian booksellers in what the prize calls “a radical reimagining” of its selection process.

Catherine Quaglia and Dana Corbett are not new to bookselling. But after decades of dreaming about owning their own ...

The five panellists for this year’s competition – and the books each panellist has chosen to champion – will be announced on Jan. 22.

Lawyer and activist and author Michelle Good and children’s author Elizabeth MacLeod are among the literary and publishing world’s recently appointed Members of the Order of Canada for 2025. Governor ...

Louise Flaherty first encountered Amaruq: The Wolf as a teacher trainee in the Eastern Arctic Teacher Education program. Run by the Baffin Divisional Board of Education, the program was established in ...

What is a “Haida manga”? It’s been a decade and a half since Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas published the first book bearing this evocative epithet, and the landscape of graphic novels has continued to ...

The Q&Q team reached out to reviewers, booksellers, and people in the publishing industry across the country to find out which titles from 2024 they’re still thinking about as the year draws to a ...

Greg Younging, the publisher of Theytus Books, the oldest Indigenous publishing house in Canada, passed away on May 3. The Penticton, B.C., press where he worked as managing editor from 1990 to 2004, ...

When it comes to questions of provenance, who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and who wrote the Band’s songs are a couple of oldies but goodies. Famed literary critic Harold Bloom spent his life highly ...

The finalists for the 2025 CCBC Book Awards have been announced. Handed out by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, the seven awards celebrate exceptional books for young people.

Over the few days in March I spent reading Jacob Wren’s new novel, the so-called “one per cent” were in the headlines a lot: billionaire blowhard Donald Trump had all but sewn up the Republican ...

Thirty-one years after it was first awarded, the future of the Giller Prize is uncertain. Without stable funding, the Giller Foundation says the prize will be forced to end operations at the end of ...