The harsh realities of rural Newfoundland provide the backdrop for Susie Taylor’s debut story collection
The Newfoundland of Vigil is an unforgiving place, and Taylor treats it, along with her cast of characters, without an ounce of sentimentality.
Some thoughts on the centenary of James Baldwin’s birth
Baldwin's literary aesthetic was predicated upon the notion of the complexity of individuals, regardless of race, class, or occupation.
Recent legal decision around “Bling Bling” rapper only the latest attempt to criminalize rap lyrics in America
If the First Amendment provides protection for every artistic endeavour except rap music, it then becomes impossible not to see this Constitutional provision as a racist instrument.
Brief encounters: “A Scandalous Woman” by Edna O’Brien
O'Brien, who died on July 27 at the age of ninety-three, caused much uproar among conservative Irish Catholics for her frank and unsparing examinations of female sexuality.
Four jurors for the Writers’ Trust Weston International Award release statement about tensions arising out of this year’s Politics and the Pen controversy
The Writers' Trust is not the only major Canadian organization facing protests over its handling of events regarding the war in Gaza.
Grief, memory, and formal playfulness combine in new poetry from Dallas Hunt and Catherine Owen
Owen is a lyric poet who delights in working within traditional forms.
A book first published sixty-two years ago helps explain the weird quasi-reality we are living through
So much of what Boorstin itemizes now seems inevitable it's difficult to countenance how groundbreaking his analysis was in its own time.
Three new novels apply a postmodern lens to horror cinema and its practitioners
The subtextual question in each of these stories – Where, exactly, does the true horror reside? – is a provocative and pressing one.
Megha Majumdar departs Scotiabank Giller Prize jury amid spiralling protest
Giller will operate with a three-person jury for the first time since 2014.
University of Toronto Press acquires Irwin Law assets in latest expansion of its publishing program
The acquisition is the latest in a series of expansionist moves for UTP.