David Szalay wins the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh
In its elliptical prose style and Eastern European sensibility, Szalay's novel reads like a cross between Ernest Hemingway and Milan Kundera.
Cory Doctorow examines how the internet got so awful in his latest anti-establishment manifesto
Doctorow's notion of enshittification has much going for it: it's irreverent, broadly applicable, and memorable.
Claire Cameron, Karen Solie among winners of the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Awards
Each of the fourteen winners, seven in English and seven in French, receive $25,000.
Michael Wehunt’s smart and creepy metafictional horror novel provides equal parts fear and pathos
Wehunt peppers his story with observations about the horror genre and how it operates.
Creeping paranoia is the order of the day in Annie Neugebauer’s debut novella, The Extra
Hints of supernatural occurrences creep into the narrative.
Fear factor: Behavioural scientist Coltan Scrivner explains why horror may be good for us in Morbidly Curious
Scrivner suggests that people have a certain "sweet spot" when it comes to how frightened they like to be.
Trad wives and demon children: Eleanor Johnson examines the ways in which 1970s horror films dovetailed with 2nd wave feminism
Rosemary's Baby provides an entrée for Johnson to discuss five other films she collects under the umbrella of what she refers to as "domestic horror."
Going viral: A group of isolated scientists encounters a strange “specimen” in Sarah Gailey’s Spread Me
What Gailey has produced owes less to Ridley Scott's Alien than to John Carpenter's 1982 movie The Thing.
Night riders: Keith Rosson’s latest is a vampire novel crossed with a bloody revenge thriller
The lexicon of organized crime is one way in which Rosson blurs the distinction between horror and crime genres in his book.
Wrath of God: CJ Leede imagines the end of the world via a plague and a sect of murderous Catholic crusaders
American Rapture is a blood-soaked, ultra-violent allegory about the hypocrisies and inhumanity of our current political moment.