“It has broken me completely”: Omar El Akkad talks about disillusionment, the West, and finding space to grieve with his new work of nonfiction
"There's the one book I write, and then there are the million different books that people read."
Sutherland House undertakes new arrangement with Fitzhenry & Whiteside
The agreement includes honouring all existing Fitz & Witz contracts.
Move fast and break things: Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir offers a harrowing, highly personal peek behind the curtain at Meta
If there's one thing that's certain about Wynn-Williams's highly personal, often scathing narrative: it's going to make a blockbuster movie.
Proposed tariffs on books could have serious adverse effects on the independent publishing and bookselling sectors in Canada
"We'll just have to suck it up and soldier through."
Haskell Free Library & Opera House blows past fundraising goal after U.S. blocks access to Canadians
As of this morning, the campaign has already raised $153,628.
A chilly chamber quartet: Four Canadian writers craft uncanny tales in different registers
Each entry in the book contains, perhaps unsurprisingly, references to at least one dead writer.
Americans dominate the Griffin Poetry Prize longlist amid threats of annexation from the U.S. government
Fully seven of the ten longlisted titles are published by American houses.
New thoughts on the oldest profession: Lauren Kirshner examines recent film treatments of sex workers in her new study
Kirshner mounts a cogent and persuasive argument in favour of reevaluating the way society, and the popular culture that reflects it, considers sex work.
“Any truth has a paradox within it”: Sarah Selecky on creativity, deep noticing, and her new book about tapping into your full writing potential
"I'm just giving voice to the part I haven't read yet."
The Toronto International Festival of Authors splits with Harbourfront to become an independent entity
"The challenge of keeping people's attention for eleven days is a lot harder."