Keep the godwit flying: More on the Sutherland House/Fitz & Witz amalgamation
The exact nature of the agreement remains obscure.
“It has broken me completely”: Omar El Akkad talks about disillusionment, the West, and finding space to grieve with his new work of nonfiction
"There's the one book I write, and then there are the million different books that people read."
A chilly chamber quartet: Four Canadian writers craft uncanny tales in different registers
Each entry in the book contains, perhaps unsurprisingly, references to at least one dead writer.
New thoughts on the oldest profession: Lauren Kirshner examines recent film treatments of sex workers in her new study
Kirshner mounts a cogent and persuasive argument in favour of reevaluating the way society, and the popular culture that reflects it, considers sex work.
“Any truth has a paradox within it”: Sarah Selecky on creativity, deep noticing, and her new book about tapping into your full writing potential
"I'm just giving voice to the part I haven't read yet."
Casualties of war: Poet Otoniya J. Okot Bitek’s debut novel focuses on the girls kidnapped by the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army
Okot Bitek uses local folklore as a metaphorical way of bringing the girls' experience into relief.
How do we get people to care about the arts? In The Audacity of Relevance, Alex Sarian has some ideas
It's not the idea of relevance itself that gives one pause, so much as where Sarian chooses to place the emphasis.
Internationally bestselling author Louise Penny announces she will not travel to the U.S. due to tariff war
Penny pointed out that her decision to boycott the U.S. was not a reflection on the American public or her readers, but on the actions of the government in power.
John Ford and Clyde Barrow on the road to Key West: The rugged melancholy of Michael Blouin’s Hard Electric
These are not a young man's verses; they are the ruminations of someone in the twilight of middle-age.
Walking the tightrope: Mélikah Abeldmoumen uses the friendship between James Baldwin and William Styron to comment on race, writing, and appropriation
The text is a valuable examination of certain points of dissension or disagreement ongoing in our culture.