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The book highlights the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)'s ongoing efforts to reopen the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous and Canadian Art, with a renewed focus on showcasing Indigenous art. 

Author’s novel The African Samurai imagines the life of Yasuke, an African man who rises through the ranks of 1500s Japan

Winners of CBC Literary Prizes join esteemed company. The 2022 CBC Short Story Prize is open for submissions until Oct. 31, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

“Sometimes we almost forget that there are issues other than COVID that we still need to tackle, so it’s good to be reminded."

Read For The Cure is an annual literary event series, which is presented by Penguin Random House Canada, that connects book lovers from across the country with bestselling authors in

Article content As was the case last year, the 2021 edition of Kingston WritersFest, which runs from Sept. 22 to 26, will take place online. Among this year’s guests are three-time Governor General’s Award winner Guy Vanderhaeghe, Giller Prize short-lister Camilla Gibb, Jocelyne Saucier and Eden Robinson. Festival favourites Thomas King and Andre Picard will be returning, while Kingston will be represented by Helen Humphreys and Steven Heighton. We apologize, but this video has failed to lo...

Northern Light is a book by Kazim Ali.(Goose Lane Editions) Kazim Ali was the child of South Asian immigrants, who unexpectedly spent years of his childhood in the small Manitoba town of Jenpeg, a town that existed because of the hydroelectric dam nearby. As an adult, he found himself wondering about the town: did it even exist anymore? And if it did, what was it like? These questions sent him on a journey, one that looked at the environmental destruction the dam caused, and the local Pimic...

In May 1993, the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in response to the horrendous crimes perpetrated against civilians during the region’s conflicts in the 1990s. The tribunal’s objective was “to try those individuals most responsible for appalling acts such as murder, torture, rape, enslavement, destruction of property, and other crimes.” By the end of ICTY’s mandate 24 years later, 161 individuals had been brought to just...

The Crash Palace is a book by Andrew Wedderburn.(Coach House Books, Malcolm Overend) The Crash Palace is about a woman named Audrey, who used to work in the oil fields and attend parties at a remote lodge in the wilderness known as the Crash Palace. Audrey has long left that life behind her, and now has a daughter. But one night, she is compelled to return to the now-abandoned Crash Palace — where she must also reckon with her past. When you can read it: Jan. 12, 2021 Andrew Wedderburn is a ...

Kim Echlin on Morality, Mythology, and the Double Life of Totalitarianism January 15, 2021 My assignment was to offer a survey course on the history of English literature in northeast China. I was paired with a young American teacher sponsored by the United Nations who was to teach phonetics and oral expression. We taught six days a week, and every Wednesday afternoon our students attended a class in political studies that we were not allowed to observe. My teaching style was Western, based on ...