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Five writers shortlisted for literary prize which annually celebrates the best in Canadian nonfiction.

Looking for a good book to read on a nice summer day? CBC Books has you covered! Here are 40 recent Canadian books to check out this season.

This book offers temperature checks, tonal shifts, and a certain privacy for her Black readers. It involves a deep investment in the language making practice endowed by her mother.

Here are the Canadian memoirs, biographies, essay collections and narrative nonfiction books we are excited to read in the first half of 2023.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center's Spring literary season continues in May and June with readings by acclaimed authors Isabel Allende, Lorrie Moore and Miriam Toews, poet Willie Perdomo – and a dramatic reading of Seamus Heaney's work by actor Ben Whishaw, among other events.

This week, looking back at New York City’s first community garden, honoring Harry Belafonte’s life in photos, medication abortions across history, and how did a LACMA statue end up on Craigslist?

Christina Sharpe's experimental visual poetic work Ordinary Notes is a profound rumination on knowledge, loss, Black American life and memory.

Christina Sharpe is expanding the vocabulary of life in slavery’s long shadow — peeling back the meaning of familiar words and resurrecting neglected history.

The scholar Christina Sharpe’s new book comprises memories, observations, artifacts and artworks — fragments attesting to the persistence of prejudice while allowing glimpses of something like hope.