The Spooky Season: Imaginative horror’s place in a disordered world
Weirdly, horror fiction is one of those places capable of provoking a sense of calm.
In 2023, Banned Books Week is more important than ever
PEN America found an "escalation of book bans and censorship in classrooms and school libraries across the United States."
Michael Wolff’s book about Fox News is full of dishy gossip, but suffers from false equivalency
Wolff is not interested in a sober analysis of Fox News and its pernicious effect on the American polity.
Debut writers from multinational publishers dominate the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Fiction Prize shortlist
Only one writer on this year's list, Emma Donoghue, has won the prize previously.
Canadian publishing’s dilemma: Indigo has abandoned books; it’s also become too big to fail
Indigo can't fail, but it also appears less and less interested in operating primarily as a bookseller.
Breaking up is hard to do: Cory Doctorow argues for the end of corporate concentration online in his new manifesto
What really exercises Doctorow is the monopolistic power Big Tech exerts in locking users into their services by means of exorbitant switching costs.
One month after her attempted retirement, Heather Reisman is back as Indigo CEO
Reisman's return must at least in part be seen as the path of least resistance.
TIFA announces Alana Wilcox as recipient of the 2023 Ivy Award
Wilcox will receive her award at this year's iteration of TIFA, on September 25.
Peter Ruis, CEO at Indigo, resigns after only one year, compounding the company’s troubles
The upper-level management shakeups come at a particularly perilous time for Indigo.
Eleanor Catton and David Bergen are among the twelve writers on the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist
Twelve titles in total made the 2023 longlist, which was culled from a record-setting 145 submissions.