Calgary Legion venue pulls out of contract for TWUC/WGA Freedom to Read Week event due to “conflict with Legion policy”
The plan for the event included discussion of censorship in general and readings from banned books.
The lies have it: Two new debut novels showcase unreliable narrators
Whereas Novack lets her narrator's duplicity bleed through in the way the book is structured, Lucy, the woman at the centre of Taff's novel, tells us she's lying right up front.
No Arms in the Arts claims a win as Scotiabank divests entirely from Elbit Systems
The fund has been the target of ongoing protests since 2023.
A puppet’s life: The debut novel from Hollay Ghadery features a highly unusual narrator
Technically, Ghadery's novel follows the Aristotelian unities of time, space, and action.
“Hammering hearts and thumping chests”: Authors are increasingly using AI to write their books for them, with predictable results
The smart ones will at least make a fortune for themselves before they are replaced by machines altogether.
ACP, TWUC come out in opposition to newly implemented Alberta schools book ban
"Selective bans are still censorship."
Black lives, white rage: Two new books re-examine the Bernie Goetz subway vigilante case
Both Thompson and Williams attempt to draw direct connections between the societal cleavages the Goetz case brought into stark relief and the current polarization of political sentiment in the U.S.
Raymond Chandler via Albert Camus: Some thoughts on James Sallis, who died in January at the age of eighty-one
"James Sallis writes in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, albeit via Albert Camus."
The Washington Post shutters its books section among massive layoffs
The move is particularly ironic given that Bezos made his billions off an internet retail site dedicated to selling books.
“Maybe writers have our own separate hell”: Lindsay Wong talks about villain hitting, corpse marriage, and her debut novel
"Villain hitting is what women do when they have no choice."