Akkad's powerful memoir won the U.S.-based award. The annual literary award program celebrates and honours authors for books ...

As an assistant professor of comparative literature, when I ask undergraduate students how they define “Canadian literature,” I get half-hearted answers about it encompassing anything inherently ...

Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” criticizes Western indifference to civilian suffering ...

If the library system in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, handed out fines for overdue books, the one for a recently ...

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

The Iranian Canadian director made a psychological thriller in Turkey where an enraged college professor is slowly driven to ...

Vladimir Nabokov’s leap away from Russian, his native language, was not an instantaneous, effortless transformation.

Dylin Hardcastle’s A Language of Limbs is a novel of two parallel stories unfurled. In each, a woman in 1970s Australia must ...

He was chosen Monday from 153 submitted novels by a judging panel that included Irish writer Roddy Doyle and “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker.

Canadian-born author David Szalay had his eye on the Booker Prize from the very early days of his latest novel, he said on stage Monday night.

The 50-year-old Kingston, Ont., poetry press Brick Books is set to merge operations with Prince Edward County’s Assembly Press, as both attempt to secure financial stability in a tumultuous era for ...

1:58 Researchers in Halifax design Moologue, an app that decodes the language of cows To the untrained ear, every “moo” coming from a cow may sound the same. But an app developed by researchers at ...