Sarah Bernstein, Eleanor Catton, and CS Richardson find places on a Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist that highlights multinational presses
Other considerations aside, this represents one of the strongest Giller shortlists in years.
The Spooky Season: The past weighs heavily in a supernaturally inflected first novel from Adriana Chartrand
The more obviously generic elements of the story are less unsettling than the very real horrors of racism and family strife.
Norwegian dramatist and novelist Jon Fosse named the 2023 Nobel laureate in literature
"Fosse blends a rootedness in the language and nature of his Norwegian background with artistic techniques in the wake of modernism."
The Spooky Season: Kathe Koja’s 1991 debut, The Cipher, remains a classic of the horror genre
Reading Koja's novel in 1991 was a revelation, as well as a reminder that horror is able to deal with large themes and philosophically weighty subject matter.
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.