Love and grief are the enduring forces in Violet Browne’s debut novel
This Is the House That Luke Built is a strong first novel, clearly adept at marrying its form and content.
Indigo steps up its customer relations; sets up temporary website for browsing only
The ongoing disruption at Canada's largest book chain is no doubt placing added stress on publishers and writers.
Robin R. Means Coleman updates her essential text on Black horror cinema with a new volume and a new co-author
The Black Guy Dies First reads like little more than Horror Noire for the attention-deficit crowd.
Indigo says no credit or debit card information was compromised in last week’s security attack; website remains down
The chain does not store credit or debit card numbers in its system.
Fable and allegory combine in Victory City, Salman Rushdie’s masterful new novel
Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.
Indigo’s response to “cybersecurity incident” has been woefully inadequate
Indigo has little control over whether its system gets hacked. What it does have control over is how it responds to the situation.
ACP diversity in publishing survey finds improvements over time, except at the executive level
For those looking for reasons to be optimistic about issues of diversity in publishing, there are a few to be found in the 2022 report.
Indigo website remains down after “cybersecurity incident”
The company is working to "understand if customer data has been accessed."
Fail better: Stephen Marche on the one constant in a writer’s life
Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.
“The best that is known and thought”: On rereading Matthew Arnold in 2023
Today, Arnold's ideas seem deeply unfashionable. They also seem pressingly relevant.