ACP taps Jack Illingworth to succeed outgoing executive director Kate Edwards
Illingworth will take up the reins at the ACP beginning March 1.
Former New York prosecutor under fire from two sides over the contents of his upcoming tell-all
Both author and publisher are defending the contents of the book and publication is scheduled to go ahead as planned.
In Lost in Canada, Lydia Perović reconsiders her adopted country’s status as a bastion of liberal democracy
Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.
Lucy Worsley’s new biography of Agatha Christie provides gossipy details of the writer’s life but is light on the work
Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.
Journey Prize amends its practices by declaring all contributors to anthology “winners,” awarding each $1,000
The journals in which the stories originally appeared will receive $200 per published story in the anthology.
Saving criticism from the critics
John Guillory is best known for his 1993 book Cultural Capital. That book, which was published at the height of...
Vancouver writer Jen Sookfong Lee’s new essay collection locates itself at the intersection of pop culture and identity
Lee does not make value judgments about high or low culture: she is equally at home watching Wong-Kar Wai films without subtitles and watching twenty seasons' worth of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
The debut novel by Jessica Johns reclaims Indigenous horror tropes in a story about pervasive familial grief
What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.
Around the web: Standing up for morally ambiguous characters, a romance novelist fakes her own death, RIP Russell Banks, and more
Heading into 2023, it appears that inflation, which is being felt particularly where hardcovers are concerned, has booksellers nervous about purchasing patterns over the coming months.
With “The Heart of a Pig,” novelist and book columnist James Grainger resurrects the serial format
Grainger's horror Substack, The Veil, is parcelling out the longish story in several instalments.