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Margaret Atwood shares original poem to encourage kids to engage in summer reading

The poem is part of the Canadian Children’s Literary Foundation’s Read On Canada! initiative, which encourages children to read and provides access to books through food banks.

Watch the trailer for Charlie Kaufman's adaptation of I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

I'm Thinking of Ending Things is a psychological thriller about a woman who struggles to determine whether she's happy in the relationship. It premieres on Netflix on Sept. 4, 2020.

The CBC Books Writers to Watch list: 24 Canadian writers on the rise in 2020

It's time for the CBC Books annual writers to watch list! Here are 24 writers on the rise — the writers to watch class of 2020.

The CBC Books summer reading list: 40 Canadian books to read this season

The summer of 2020 is here! It's the perfect season to read a good book by a Canadian author.

Giller Foundation donates $50K to two organizations that support BIPOC writers

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Shirley Ann Grau dies at 91

Associated Press

The bestselling Canadian books for the week of July 26-Aug. 1, 2020

Wesley King recommends Life of Pi by Yann Martel right now

Author Jenny Han on the Netflix adaptation of To All The Boys I've Loved Before

Radio Q August 4

L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables manuscript going online

News Canada PEI August 4

Pete Hamill, legendary New York columnist, has died

News Entertainment August 5

Kaie Kellough imagines a COVID-19 symphony at the Sala Rossa

Transmission August 6

FOLD 'How They Did It' series aims to help Black children's book authors get published

Theatre director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu on seeing her own story reflected in Claudia Dey's play Trout Stanley

Radio Q November 8, 2019

David Lester captures the repression of 1919's Winnipeg General Strike in the style of a war artist

Lucius Dechausay

Emma Nishimura embeds history in paper to uncover her family's lives in B.C. internment camps

Lucius Dechausay

Imagining the World: Darwin and the idea of evolution

Radio Ideas August 4

Roz Nay recommends reading We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler right now

How Lindsay Wong's grandmother taught her how to find joy and resilience in dark times

Transmission August 5

Canadian Amal El-Mohtar & American Max Gladstone win Hugo Award for novella This Is How You Lose the Time War

Twilight author Stephenie Meyer returns to the series with the long awaited novel Midnight Sun

Radio Q August 5

Shelagh Rogers on the perfect summer read

Radio Cross Country Checkup August 1

Noor Naga on moral decisions, millennial Muslims and modern love

Radio The Sunday Edition July 31

Andrew David MacDonald recommends reading A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews right now

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret at 50: author Judy Blume on the taboo-busting teen book

Radio Q July 30

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