One of this year’s most talked-about memoirs is Claire Cameron’s powerful How to Survive a Bear Attack @aaknopf.bsky.social! Check out our conversation with her on "The Chat": 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11... #CanLit

Singing Trees Emily Carr c. 1935

Cormac McCarthy line sticking with me this morning, from The Passenger: “Evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure.”

This is the greatest review of my career financialpost.com/opinion/new-...

Blue Ice Lake Wonish Anne Savage 1935

An excerpt from @trinamoyles.bsky.social forthcoming book BLACK BEAR -- it starts: "My dad was known as “the bear guy” in Peace River." I loved this book. It's out Jan 6. thenarwhal.ca/trina-moyles... #naturewriting #bears #booksky

So much of rewriting is waking up your verbs, my God.

The Vatican held this Inuvialuit kayak for 100 years. Now it’s coming home #Canada #Inuvialuit Push to reclaim kayak led to historic repatriation of 62 Inuit, First Nations and Métis objects www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“King once wrote: “The truth about stories is that that’s all we are.” I admit to referencing it in my own writing. It is poetic, but incomplete. We are more than stories. We are land. We are family. We are community.”

I love this essay by film critic emeritus Lisa Schwarzbaum on seeing Mira Nair’s “Monsoon Wedding” 24 years ago — and being reminded of it anew during the joyful mayoral campaign of Nair’s son, Zohran Mamdani: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...

The Narwhal dropped a months-long investigation this week — biodiversity reporter Ainslie Cruickshank wanted to know how many animals are killed in train collisions in B.C. A simple question, but answers proved difficult. thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-c...

Here's a gift link to the Globe 100 for the Canadian book folks: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b287550...

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the memorandum of understanding that Canada and Alberta Thursday morning. The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

Waiting for Lunch Linus Woods ~ Dakota, Ojibwe n.d.

In today's KINGSVILLE TIMES ~ 49th Shelf: How To Survive A Bear Attack kingsvilletimes.ca/2025/11/49th...

they always look slightly pissed off

The chicken!

Lake Ontario yesterday

Perfect autumn birding yesterday, rewarded with a Little Egret fleeing geese and Water Rail sneaking in the dusk reeds

"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This @nickhunebrown.bsky.social piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...

“His work is magnificent, to use a Yeatsian word, partly in its capacity to see human doings, such as books, in many ways at once” — on The Poems of Seamus Heaney [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...

While Alberta considers how to allow oilsands companies to release treated wastewater into the Athabasca River, the federal government has yet to table its own law around clean drinking water for First Nations. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oils...

More and more convinced that one day we are going to find Palaeolithic mammoth-fibre textiles: who could resist that floof?!

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place. #ONpoli

‘There’s fire all around us, this is it’ – This is climate breakdown

Folks around the Great Lakes: today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. “…That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the gales of November came early…” youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A?...

I forgot to tell you about this, from last night

@jonathanslaght.com I thought you'd like to see this from today's 'The Observer' ( UK Paper) have a great day

I got experimental brain surgery. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

We'll be closed all day Sunday November 2nd for our semi-annual inventory count. We'll be back open for our regular hours on the 3rd. On a totally unrelated note, on Saturday November 1st, all books will be 10% off! (Please buy everything in the store, that way we don't have to do inventory.)

There's NewPoetry today from Guy Gavriel Kay (@guygavrielkay.bsky.social). newpoetry.ca/2025/10/27/t...

83. A Trio of Vast Ideas writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... 86. Closing Night Event: Susan Orlean with The Current’s Matt Galloway writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... 87. The Crime Scene writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...

We’ve arrived at the final day of #VWF2025, and today’s offerings are among the best. Tickets available for: 78. Food for Thought writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... 79. The Divorce Diaries writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... 81. Global Political Narratives writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...

I met these beauties in Lynn Canyon Park, a great place to be a mushroom

Timflation — a piece I wrote using quotes from news stories, academic papers and online discussions about coffee prices and Tim Hortons in @globeandmail.com today. [gift 🎁 link] www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13...

This tree in Trinity Bellwoods, doing its very best

The expansion of a #NovaScotia program is set to be good news for book lovers. Residents can receive $10 off books written or published by Nova Scotians starting this Friday. A total of 4,000 vouchers will be available until Feb. 28, 2026. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

We are thrilled to share that 5 TNQ authors have become finalists of the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Awards. They are: @clairecameron.bsky.social

Musician, writer and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has a new album out this week. She talked to us about the need to "find awe and inspiration in every piece of the natural world ... regardless of how much harm they carry from extraction, neglect and exploitation." thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...

Lake Ontario on the eve of game 7

Good morning from Lake Winnipeg.

been reading a lot of medieval English history recently and it's instructive as to why the Anglo political tradition evolved away from monarchy. every 4th king or so would turn out to be a murderous lunatic, people got sick of it

At long last, I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Case and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, will be published on November 11, 2025 and is available for pre-order wherever books are sold! www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

"What NPS anthropologists provide...is the ability to recognize the crossroads and overlaps between what the Park Service hopes to accomplish and the traditions and lifeways of communities who will be affected by their actions." Good piece @sapiens.org by Ellyn Demuynck #anthropology #nationalpark

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Seems like a good time to remind people that Canada Post will deliver any piece of mail to federal elected officials for FREE. No stamp necessary! Just a reminder in case you, oh I dunno, wanna send your elected officials a sternly worded letter a day for a year or something.

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

"This would push the split between our own ancestors, Neanderthals and Homo longi back by at least 400,000 years and...raises the possibility that our common ancestor – and potentially the first Homo sapiens – lived in western Asia rather than Africa." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Hannah Oliver Depp: "For the month of Aug., we were down about 60% year over year... People are in pain, they’re suffering, they’re scared... Not-for-profits who might be aligned with us...fear repercussions if they were seen to support a Black, queer, Asian, disability-owned independent bookstore."