This has been tough week for book publishing in Canada. If more of the components of the chain were in Canadian hands, Canadian readers would have better access to Canadian writing.

• A Publisher's Year: a special report on Canadian-owned press, House of Anansi
• Everything is a Priority: a dispatch from the National Forum on the Literary Arts

Ken Babstock is the first poet to win the $25,000 Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize, given to a poet in mid-career. He jokes that he had planned to stop writing poems with his latest book but now he best write some more.

• More on Ken Babstock
• Canada needs an independent watchdog to prevent NSA type breaches

'It’s not just that you don’t think about what the other person doesn’t know, you don’t think about the fact that you haven’t thought about it'

Miriam Toews wins the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize; Ken Babstock awarded the inaugural Latner Writers Trust Poetry Prize.

• Lauren B. Davis's review of Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows
• More on the Writers' Trust Awards

When sex education — and sexism — is acquired through novels

• Margaret Sweatman: Play it Again, Sam
• Margaret Sweatman: At Sea in a Sieve

For a man who foretells doom, Andrew Wylie looks upbeat. The star book agent known as “The Jackal” for his predatory practices is now recasting himself as the publishing business’s unlikely saviour.

• Read about Amazon in the Financial Post
• Iain Reid on finding the right book agent

Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing has been called a difficult book. “I really wanted to write about female sexuality in a very different way,” she says.

• Follow our coverage of the 2014 International Author's Festival
• More from Emily M. Keeler

The Internet-as-great-democratizer is just one version of what the Internet could be; it's other greatest potential is as a tool for immense cruelty.

• Read Adrian Humprheys's special report on Anonymous's Matt DeHart
• More on Anonymous from the National Post

Lori McNulty and K.D. Miller on writing as a spiritual act, the hunger for identity and what feeds their writing

• The Writers’ Trust Conversations: Carrie Snyder and André Alexis
• The Writers’ Trust Conversations: Clea Young and Steven Galloway

When Caroline Adderson began writing her latest novel, Ellen in Pieces, more than four years ago, she always knew her protagonist would die. If art imitates life, it was inevitable

• Simon Rich tackles the lives of Spoiled Brats everywhere
• For Karl Ove Knausgård, it’s all the small things

Rick Mercer will replace Jian Ghomeshi as host of the upcoming Giller Prize gala, the CBC announced Monday — roughly 24 hours after gala organizers announced they had to ditch the former CBC Radio star

• Jian Ghomeshi’s CBC lawsuit is hopeless — even if he’s telling the truth
• Jian Ghomeshi not facing investigation over anonymous sex abuse allegations, Toronto police say

Winter’s latest book, Boundless, is ostensibly a memoir of two weeks she spent sailing through the Northwest Passage, taking in the culture and geography of a place that she freely admits holds a kind of mystical appeal to her

• Caroline Adderson hopes you’re not too broken up about Ellen in Pieces
• Contagion carries multiple meanings in Charles Foran’s SARS-set social media critique, Planet Lolita

With his wildly popular autobiographical series My Struggle, the author breaks down the banal

• Follow our coverage of the 2014 International Author's Festival