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.
The Giller foundation sticks with Scotiabank, while losing one juror and the number of writers pulling their books rises to nineteen
Dismantling systems of arts funding in a capitalist society is notoriously difficult.
A group of fifteen authors pull their books from consideration for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in protest of its main sponsor’s investment in an Israeli arms manufacturer
The signatories are calling for the Giller to lobby Scotiabank to fully divest from Elbit Systems and for the prize to sever ties with the Azrieli Foundation, Indigo, and Audible.
Revelations that Alice Munro stayed with the man who sexually assaulted her nine-year-old daughter force a reckoning with the Nobel prize winner and her art
The article in the Star is heartbreaking.
Two veteran poets explore the ineffable by way of the tangible and everyday
Both volumes contain references to the Hebrew word "hineni," translated as "here I am."
Alice Munro’s debut collection, newly reissued, demonstrates an artist fully formed from the start
The stories in Dance of the Happy Shades establish many of the characteristics that would come to be associated with Munro's oeuvre.
The debut novel from Montreal author Nour Abi-Nakhoul is an hallucinatory descent into existential horror
Ontological queries pervade the novel, which is, at least in part, about the inability to outrun violence or harmful past experience.
A story that began life on Reddit becomes one of the most original, nerve-shattering horror novels in memory
The plot, which unfolds at a frantic pace, comes to resemble an M.C. Escher sketch.
Two new books on Pierre Poilievre and Justin Trudeau offer readers, and voters, a Hobson’s choice for Canada
Canadians have a choice between a hyper-partisan Trumpian polarizer and a performative, gaffe-prone incumbent.