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The 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists answer questions from past winners
Esi Edugyan, Patrick deWitt, Sheila Heti, Thea Lim and Eric Dupont with translator Peter McCambridge are shortlisted for the $100,000 literary prize.
Catherine Leroux on giving a voice to a Jane Doe with Madame Victoria
Catherine Leroux on writing a short story collection based on an unsolved crime.
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Toronto singer-songwriter Scott Helman recommends They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Breaking the silence over menstruation: The anthology Gush is filled with laughter, tears and rage
'My mother was a Communist informant.' András Forgách explores his family's secret past
How Peter McCambridge translated the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Songs for the Cold of Heart
William Goldman, writer of The Princess Bride and All the President's Men, dead at 87
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Participating in NaNoWriMo? Pasha Malla says embrace the desperation
What is one book your generation should read? 12 kids from Canada's Smartest Person Junior share their picks
CBC Massey Lectures
The Massey Lectures air this week on CBC Radio
95 facts about Marvel comics legend Stan Lee
Bestsellers
The bestselling books in Canada: Nov. 3 to Nov. 10, 2018
Sigrid Nunez wins 2018 U.S. National Book Award for fiction for The Friend
Books on glaciers, biometrics win $10K Canadian science writing prizes
CBC Literary Prizes
Natalie Lim from Vancouver wins the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize for Arrhythmia
The Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists recall when they decided to become writers
Novelist Erwan Larher remembers surviving Paris Bataclan attack in new memoir
'They're with me': Artwork by Indigenous youth catches spotlight in Massey Lectures
Why Stan Lee saw Spider-Man as a regular guy
How I Wrote It
How Eric Dupont wrote the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Songs for the Cold of Heart
Michelle Obama memoir is Oprah's new book club pick
Charles Foran awarded $50K Writers' Trust of Canada Fellowship
'We're still trying to get it made:' Stan Lee backed Canadian-set series in final years
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