“An instrument of empowerment”: Hugh Stephens offers a rationale for a robust Canadian copyright system
The Canadian situation is in stark contrast to other Western countries that have more robust copyright protections.
Colleagues remember Kirk Howard, founder of Dundurn Press, as a shy but committed publisher of Canadian books
"He was profoundly intelligent, but quite quiet. It was sometimes hard to know what he was thinking."
Continuity and growth mark the twin poles for Karen Brochu, House of Anansi Press’s newly appointed publisher
"It's very important to me that we look forward and thrive and that we signal stability to the market," says Anansi president Semareh Al-Hillal.
Karen Brochu named new publisher at House of Anansi Press following Leigh Nash’s departure earlier this year; Douglas Richmond named editorial director
“I look forward to putting my own stamp on a storied house,” says Brochu.
Burnaby, B.C., writer Logan Macnair’s new novel is a scabrous and frightening satire about far-right radicalization online
Troll is not a book liable to find a wide mainstream audience.
David C.C. Burgeois’s debut novel, about an indenture with ties to William Shakespeare, is a stylistic mashup that may suffer from too many notes
The core of the novel has a propulsion and a dramatic weight that works in its favour.
Sex, religion, and family collide in Liz Harmer’s sublime second novel, Strange Loops
If there is a God hovering over Harmer's narrative, it is of the Old Testament variety.
The way a child hides: hope, humility, and forgiveness underpin the new collection of poetry from Kate Cayley
As a poet, Cayley is particularly good at juxtaposition often manifested as subtle or not-so-subtle shifts in tone and tenor.
31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 26: “Perfect Places” by Casey Plett
Plett is not content to let her story act as a didactic tale about cis intolerance.
Hell on Earth: John Vaillant’s Fire Weather is a sobering, terrifying, and infuriating look at how humans have created the conditions for our own extinction
In describing fire – its properties and its behaviour – Vaillant is at his most enthralling.