Indigo reports revenue increase year-over-year and above pre-pandemic levels
Revenue was up in the third quarter, including increased sales for books in all categories.
June bugs and haunted dolls: the strange and fantastical world of Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
These twelve stories interrogate individual human consciousness and the dangers of technology in our postmodern world.
“Trauma-creep” and literature: does a single minded focus on trauma diminish literary characters?
The reduction of literary characters to a history of trauma is too often used as convenient shorthand, robbing us of the pleasure found in complexity and ambiguity.
HarperCollins Germany to review controversial book about the betrayal of Anne Frank in light of questions about claims in it
The new book, which proposes a Jewish notary as the person responsible for giving up the Franks’ hiding place, has come under fire by historians who question its assertions.
Vampires, mad scientists, and American psychos: David J. Skal examines some cultural underpinnings of the horror genre
In its examination of the roots of American horror cinema, this single-volume survey is valuable, though it lacks follow-through in its second half.
Let’s talk about sex, anonymously: New York writers Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan and Hillary Jordan on their new anthology of unattributed erotica
“We all have this conversation about who can write what,” Jordan says. “This collection asks, does it matter?”
Ship of fools: Will Aitken skewers late-capitalism and upper-class pretension in The Swells
With not one but two pirate incursions, a mutiny, and other onboard shenanigans, the novel offers a fast, noisy narrative.
Where I’m calling from: Dimitri Nasrallah mines the immigrant experience for his new novel, Hotline
Set in Montreal during the 1980s, the novel outlines the full range of the immigrant experience, from heartache to hope.
Debut novel from Camilla Grudova sold to Atlantic
Grudova’s previous collection of short fiction was delightfully strange; the new novel appears to continue in this vein.
Despite positive sales of print books, Gallup reports Americans are reading less
Where publishing is concerned, every silver lining has a big rain cloud hovering directly behind it.