The latest from Leacock Medal for Humour winner Gary Barwin, snowy winter reading recommendations, girlhood and grief in Vauhini Vara’s debut story collection, plus more.

Ontario poet and author Gary Barwin discusses his new nonfiction Imagining Imagining, columnist Alicia Cox Thomson recommends three novels set in cold or snowy destinations, Canadian American author Vauhini Vara on her short story collection This Is Salvaged and more.