Miriam Toews on leaving the Mennonite community: ‘Sometimes you just have to go running in the opposite direction, smash things to the ground in your mind’ (Getty) How do you talk to children about ...

Miriam Toews is no stranger to writing books with intense and tragic content: In 2000, she released Swing Low: A Life, a memoir about her father, who struggled with depression and died by suicide. In ...

Author Miriam Toews will be at this Vancouver Writers Fest events on Oct. 21 and 22. The festival runs Oct. 20-26. The award-winning Toews has just released the new memoir A Truce That is Not Peace.

The Canadian writer Miriam Toews brings heart, bite and wit to all her work—whether she’s writing about strict Mennonite communities like the one in Manitoba where she grew up or the suicides of her ...

There’s something inherently appealing about a novel that makes Deborah Solomon, the New York Times Magazine Q&A guru, the crush object of a 15-year-old Canadian boy. “What do you like so much about ...

Some stories don’t just speak to who you are now but whisper to every version you’ve been before. These eight books hold the ...

Sarah Polley adapts Miriam Toews’s novel into a timely political parable with a stellar ensemble cast. By A.O. Scott “Fight Night” is the story of three generations of women as told by the youngest of ...

The latter, Patti Wiens, kicks things off tonight at 7 p.m. as she launches her new book That’ll Never Work Here, the second book in Great Plains Press’ The City Project, edited by city ...

The best memoir you will read all year NICK HORNBY This is memoir perfection I adored it CARIAD LLOYD An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety remarkable CELIA PAUL I would have read ...