Marian Engel's Governor General’s award-winning Bear is, in many ways, about a woman who has sex with a bear. But it's also a book about unrequited love, sexual empowerment, and being one with nature.
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Marian Engel’s Bear was an award-winning Canadian novel relegated to the darkest recesses of literary history. But the Internet never forgets, and so to celebrate its return, we asked five illustrators to re-imagine the novel’s startling cover.
At the heart of Siri Hustvedt’s recent novel, The Blazing World, is a work of art conjured up for the story itself. Would the Man Booker-shortlisted book have been as successful if this fictitious exhibition didn’t seem real enough for our own world?
YA literature is often criticized for the thing that makes it essential: recognizing and validating the daily dramatic ebbs and flows that come with adolescence.
An interview with the Giller Prize finalist on role models and finding your authentic self.
Driving 14,000 desperation-fuelled miles in 1979 gave William Least Heat-Moon the story for the essential American travelogue. Putting that story on the page gave him the best possible version of a life that had been going nowhere.
Colson Whitehead was miserable when he entered the World Series of Poker. But poker is a perfect game for the miserable—and for a writer.
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