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PublishingThe Colophon

ACP taps Jack Illingworth to succeed outgoing executive director Kate Edwards

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023

Illingworth will take up the reins at the ACP beginning March 1.

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PublishingThe Colophon

Former New York prosecutor under fire from two sides over the contents of his upcoming tell-all

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

Both author and publisher are defending the contents of the book and publication is scheduled to go ahead as planned.

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

In Lost in Canada, Lydia Perović reconsiders her adopted country’s status as a bastion of liberal democracy

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023

Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.

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International LiteratureThe Colophon

Lucy Worsley’s new biography of Agatha Christie provides gossipy details of the writer’s life but is light on the work

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023

Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.

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Brief EncountersShort Fiction

Journey Prize amends its practices by declaring all contributors to anthology “winners,” awarding each $1,000

January 20, 2023January 20, 2023

The journals in which the stories originally appeared will receive $200 per published story in the anthology.

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CriticismThe Colophon

Saving criticism from the critics

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023

John Guillory is best known for his 1993 book Cultural Capital. That book, which was published at the height of...

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

Vancouver writer Jen Sookfong Lee’s new essay collection locates itself at the intersection of pop culture and identity

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

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.

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CanLitNovelsThe Horror Show

The debut novel by Jessica Johns reclaims Indigenous horror tropes in a story about pervasive familial grief

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.

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BooksellingFilmThe ColophonWriters and Writing

Around the web: Standing up for morally ambiguous characters, a romance novelist fakes her own death, RIP Russell Banks, and more

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023

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.

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PublishingThe Horror ShowWriters and Writing

With “The Heart of a Pig,” novelist and book columnist James Grainger resurrects the serial format

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023

Grainger's horror Substack, The Veil, is parcelling out the longish story in several instalments.

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