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LeVar Burton bringing his weekly short story podcast to Twitter as livestream series
46 Canadian picture books to read in spring 2020
David Leonard reflects on his wife Teva Harrison's last book, Not One of These Poems Is About You
Painter John Hartman spotlights 32 portraits of Canadian writers in Many Lives Mark This Place
How the telegraph and the lightbulb can teach us to think critically about future inventions
COVID Residencies
Zoe Si is an illustrator (and a lawyer!), and she's drawing concise and witty isolation cartoons
National Arts Centre to add writers to #CanadaPerforms, will launch with event with Margaret Atwood
The bestselling Canadian books for the week of March 22-28, 2020
What can Hurricane Katrina's hospital crisis teach us about our COVID-19 response?
Dog-eared Reads
Ian Williams believes this 1971 poetry collection by Margaret Atwood is the Jagged Little Pill of its time
The unlikely literary success story of Biblioasis — and the fallout of COVID-19
How pandemics have remade politics, societies and culture
A book club for two, still going after 37 years — on the phone
Dog-Eared Reads
Andrea Gunraj thinks this 2012 novel by Linda Spalding is a 'masterclass in voice'
Nancy Lee looks at what it means to be a woman in her poetry collection What Hurts Going Down
Bored at home? The Fredericton Region Museum needs your help to 'rewrite' history
Take it like a Stoic: coping in the time of coronavirus
Historian Yuval Noah Harari says we can choose what the world looks like when the pandemic is over
Women dominate shortlist for $86K International Booker Prize
Marianne Boucher was a cult member back in the 1980s. Now she's telling her story in a comic book
Dolly Parton launches Goodnight with Dolly, an online bedtime story video series for children and families
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The Next Chapter
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Writers & Company
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