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Thank you to our incredible authors and translators for an amazing year, and to our readers and booksellers for your unwavering support. Wishing you all the best in 2025!

We were sad to hear the news that Peter Leitch passed away on December 30 at eighty, in New York. It was wonderful to meet Peter and his wife Sylvia Levine here in Montreal preceding the production of his honest memoir, OFF THE BOOKS: A JAZZ LIFE. Our condolences to Sylvia.

"Frost" by Matthew Hollett, from Optic Nerve (@BrickBooks, 2023).

We're thrilled to see an excerpt from THE MONTREAL STANDARD: THE EARLY JOURNALISM OF MAVIS GALLANT featured as The Walrus's Weekend Read!

“I called him the Hungarian because I couldn’t pronounce his name. If he had a name for me, I never heard it. We weren’t what you’d call chummy.” A 24-year-old Mavis Gallant contemplates life in Montreal during the early days of World War II: thewalrus.ca/a-wonderful-co…

Véhicule Press and Paragraphe Bookstore invite you to the launch of MONTREAL STANDARD TIME Join co-host Neil Besner along with special guests Arizona O'Neill and Linda Leith and host Carmine Starnino for an evening discussing the book and Gallant's influence on Canlit

We're proud to announce that @RheaTregebov's TALKING TO STRANGERS is a finalist for the $10,000 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The shortlist will be released on March 31, and the winner declared on April 21, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Purdy's passing.

Blurring the line between reality and dreams, the surreal scene set in Pierre Nepveu’s “Leaving” captures the tension between anchoring yourself where you are and venturing out into the unknown. thewalrus.ca/leaving/

Jennifer Hollett Jean Marc Ah-Sen Liz Harmer Chelene Knight Shani Mootoo Val Bah Vehicule Press Goose Lane Editions Benjamin Hertwig Freehand Books DavidBHuebert McClelland & Stewart Myriam Lacroix Doubleday Canada Natalie Sue HarperCollinsCa An unforgettable night at the 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Guests are still celebrating the next wave of Canadian literary voices.

“Our fate flows with that of rivers—and always has.” In a time of ecological crisis, author Robert Macfarlane explores what we might learn or confront about the world we live in when we give natural entities like rivers rights: thewalrus.ca/if-rivers-had-…

Grateful to The Seaboard Review of Books and for their review of Jeremy Thomas Gilmer's THIS RARE EARTH "His power to see the rich beauty of every landscape, from jungle to barren ice field, is astounding." theseaboardreview.ca/p/this-rare-ea…