The devil’s advocate: Toronto Star entertainment editor Doug Brod on the demonic appeal of Anton LaVey
"He was essentially a horror movie, comic book geek," Brod says.
Gone girl: Liz Moore traces the fallout from a rich teen’s disappearance at a summer camp in The God of the Woods
Structurally, Moore’s novel flits around in time and perspective.
Charges withdrawn for four of five protesters arrested after 2023 Giller Gala disruption
Maysam Abu Khreibeh, a Palestinian writer and organizer, called the 2023 protest the "bare minimum" that could be done to push back against the ongoing conflict in Gaza
Students at Sheridan College launch a campaign to rescue the Creative Writing and Publishing program
"I think the preservation of administrative salaries at the upper echelons is the priority."
Broken Pencil shutters amid behind-the-scenes controversy over its co-founder’s support for Israel
Niedzviecki is no stranger to poking at contentious culture war issues.
Canadian media outlets file joint lawsuit against OpenAI and ChatGPT with requested damages in the billions
The lawsuit comes a week after news broke about multinational publisher HarperCollins entering into an agreement with an anonymous tech company to license the work of nonfiction authors to help train AI large-language learning programs.
Notes of an also-ran: How to spend an entire year reading and come away feeling as though you’ve read all the wrong things
What these lists are good for is marketing clout.
Joyce Carol Oates continues a late-career hot streak with a collection of subversive suspense stories
Oates's pervading theme across her entire career involves an investigation into the nature of consciousness and the mysteries of personality.
Is licensing authors’ work to train AI a Faustian bargain?
What is a reasonable price for becoming an active participant in one's own obsolescence?
Sheung-King wins Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Batshit Seven; Martha Baillie takes nonfiction award
Sheung-King's win completes the trifecta for Penguin Random House Canada, which published each of the three big fiction prize winners this year.