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Today • 9:00pm
One Page: There There
With Tommy Orange and Waubgeshig Rice

Upcoming Events

Live Online Event • Today • 9:00pm
One Page: There There
With Tommy Orange and Waubgeshig Rice
Interview • Sun Nov 1
Entangled Life
with Merlin Sheldrake
Live Online Event • Mon Nov 2 • 7:30pm
Masterclass: Discovering your Voice
with Kagiso Lesego Molope
Interview • Sun Nov 8
As Far As You Know
with A.F. Moritz
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Live Online Event
Music
Poetry
Mon Oct 26 • 7:30pm
Bywords 2020 John Newlove Poetry Award
with David Groulx
Pre-Recorded Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Sun Oct 25
The Education of an Idealist
with Samantha Power
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Poetry
Sun Oct 25
The Lost Spells
with Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Oct 22 • 7:30pm
National Book Launch: Love After the End
With Joshua Whitehead, jaye simpson, Nazbah Tom and Adam Garnet Jones
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Oct 19 • 7:30pm
Healing
with Jesse Thistle and David A. Robertson
Live Online Event
Fiction
Music
Poetry
Memoir
Sun Oct 18 • 8:00pm
Musical Language
with Martha Baillie, Stuart Ross, and Maria Reva
Pre-Recorded Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Oct 18
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
with Margaret MacMillan
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Oct 15 • 12:00pm
One Page: Actress
With Anne Enright
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Oct 13 • 7:30pm
Ending Inequality
with Thomas Philippon
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Sun Oct 11
One on One
With Pico Iyer
Pre-Recorded Event
Fiction
Sun Oct 11
Jack
with Marilynne Robinson
Live Online Event
Music
Memoir
Sat Oct 10 • 12:00pm
One Good Reason to Celebrate Mental Health Day
With Séan McCann and Andrea Aragon
Live Online Event
Poetry
Thu Oct 8 • 12:00pm
One Page: How to Fly
with Barbara Kingsolver
Pre-Recorded Event
Youth
Memoir
Tue Oct 6
High School
with Tegan and Sara
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Oct 5 • 7:30pm
Missing from the Village
with Justin Ling
Pre-Recorded Event
Fiction
Sun Oct 4
A Song for the Dark Times
with Ian Rankin
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Mon Sep 28 • 7:30pm
Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos
with Steven Heighton
Pre-Recorded Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Sun Sep 27
Commanding Hope
with Thomas Homer-Dixon
Live Online Event
Poetry
Tue Sep 22 • 7:30pm
National Launch for Burning Sugar
with Cicely Belle Blain
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Sep 21 • 7:30pm
Inheritance
with Kaie Kellough and Ian Williams
Pre-Recorded Event
Fiction
History
Sun Sep 20
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Sep 14 • 7:30pm
The World as We Know It
with Catherine Hernandez and Saleema Nawaz
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Sep 13
Magdalena: River of Dreams
with Wade Davis
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Tue Sep 8 • 7:30pm
Nerve
with Eva Holland
Pre-Recorded Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Sep 6
Twilight of Democracy
with Anne Applebaum
Pre-Recorded Event
Fiction
Sun Sep 6
The Glass Hotel
with Emily St. John Mandel
Live Online Event
Fiction
Youth
Mon Aug 31 • 7:30pm
The Silver Arrow
with Lev Grossman
Pre-Recorded Event
Fiction
Sun Aug 30
Indians on Vacation
with Thomas King
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Aug 24 • 7:30pm
The Pull of the Stars
With Emma Donoghue
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Sun Aug 23
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
with Gaia Vince
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Sun Aug 23
A History of My Brief Body
with Billy-Ray Belcourt
Live Online Event
Fiction
Tue Aug 18 • 7:30pm
Virtual Book Launch: The Company We Keep
with Frances Itani
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Thu Jun 4
Virtual Book Launch: On Pandemics
With Dr. David Waltner-Toews
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Tue May 26 • 1:00pm
Ending Poverty
With Hugh Segal

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Upcoming Podcasts

New episode each Friday
Podcast • Fri Oct 30
Spotlight on Arsenal Pulp Press
Featuring Sachiko Murakami and Jillian Christmas
Podcast • Fri Nov 6
A Life with Books, Writers and Virago:
Emma Donoghue in conversation with Lennie Goodings
Podcast • Wed Nov 11
Fighting for Peace
Featuring Tim Cook and Scott Anderson
Podcast • Fri Nov 13
Yes, It's Systemic
Featuring Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt
Podcast • Tue Nov 17
The Ever-Present Past
featuring Maggie O’Farrell and Sarah Xerar Murphy

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Podcast
Poetry
Memoir
Episode 18 • Tue Oct 27
Craft, Content and Process
Featuring andrea bennett and John Elizabeth Stintzi
Podcast • Episode 17 • Fri Oct 23
Imagining Worlds (part 2)
Featuring Lauren Beukes and MR Carey
Podcast • Episode 16 • Fri Oct 23
Imagining Worlds (part 1)
Featuring David A. Robertson and Derek Kunsken
Podcast • Episode 15 • Tue Oct 20
Letting Go of Anxiety
with Tara Henley
Podcast • Episode 14 • Fri Oct 16
Crime and Punishment
Featuring Katie Tallo, Scott Thornley and Amy Stuart
Podcast • Episode 13 • Tue Oct 13
Lies That Tell Us Truth
Featuring Farzana Doctor, Shani Mootoo and Mona Awad
Podcast • Episode 12 • Fri Oct 9
Truth as Fiction and Fiction as Truth
Featuring Helen Humphreys and Will Ferguson
Podcast • Episode 11 • Tue Oct 6
Agency and Consent
Featuring Rebecca Watson and Annabel Lyon
Podcast • Episode 10 • Fri Oct 2
The Art of the Short Story
with David Bergen, Frances Boyle and Souvankham Thammavongsa
Podcast • Episode 09 • Wed Sep 30
Orange Shirt Day
with Michelle Good
Podcast • Episode 08 • Fri Sep 25
Neurodiversity and The Ever-Changing Brain
Featuring Sarah Kurchak and David Eagleman
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