“I eat those words like they is food”: The prismatic poetry of Pamela Mordecai
It would be salutary to see critics inside and outside of the academy pick up this book and engage with it thoroughly and thoughtfully.
The trouble with die-cuts and innovative uses for folded paper: a BookNet panel on the best and worst in book cover design
What makes a compelling book design? Four designers and a digital bookseller weigh in.
In The Chaos Machine, Max Fisher identifies the social media algorithms that are causing our societies to crumble
There are no good solutions to the problems Fisher isolates in his book, but this frightening text highlights the importance of confronting these issues regardless.
With the closure of Knife Fork Book, Toronto loses a beloved haven for poetry bookselling
The loss of the city's poetry-only bookseller is sad as much for what the store represents as for its physical presence.
Writers’ Trust Atwood Gibson fiction shortlist comprises entirely books from independent Canadian presses
Two collections of short fiction and two works in translation are represented on a list that spans the country from PEI to Alberta.
“This will cut down on my reading”: The three types of books Dorothy Parker never wanted to encounter again
"When the author gives me a scene of wild young passion, then I can no longer slog through the immediate follow-up of a tender description of the bendings of wheat in the breeze."
Return of Globe’s Arts & Books section features one book review – of a book by a Globe columnist
The single book review was of a book by technology columnist Josh O'Kane.
Griffin Poetry Prize incurs backlash after eliminating its dedicated category for Canadian poets
The elimination of the Canadian category makes it that much harder for domestic poets to access time in the spotlight.
New Yorker journalist Ken Auletta comes full circle with a book on disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein that has been twenty years in the making
Auletta employs the benefit of hindsight to produce a portrait of a brash, egotistical Hollywood outsider whose power allowed his monstrous side to flourish without consequence for too long.
The Great War provides the backdrop for a story about death and resurrection on an industrial scale
The Talosite exists at the confluence of sci-fi and body horror, with the actual horrors of the First World War a constant shadow in the background.