Mel Gibson, purity rings, and the Rapture: Joelle Kidd’s Jesusland examines the weird world of evangelical Christian pop culture
Throughout, there is an unnerving focus on violence as core to the evangelical worldview.
“I heard you shot your woman down”: A new book explores the surprising history of the song “Hey Joe”
Schneider does a good job of delineating the extent to which violent material has pervaded the history of music.
Eden Mills responds to criticism by dropping workshop featuring “AI author”
The festival organizers thanked the literary community for its feedback, saying they "take it seriously."
Giles Blunt talks about trading in his series mystery character for historical fiction in his latest novel, Bad Juliet
The touchstone for Bad Juliet occurred during a vacation Blunt and his wife took to the Adirondacks.
Montreal author Irena Karafilly explores grief and infidelity in her novel Tunes for Dancing Bears
Karafilly's narrative places its two main characters in a situation that puts an extreme stress test on their already fractured marriage.
A European sensibility infuses the stories in Montreal resident Mikhail Iossel’s latest story collection
Iossel's chosen technique has the paradoxical effect of simultaneously speeding the prose up and slowing it down.
Is Canada a failing democracy? In his new book, Andrew Coyne argues that the signs are not good
Coyne argues that Canada "is not a fully functioning democracy."
“Everything is finite”: Saad Omar Khan on Muslim identity, writing as documentation, and his debut novel, Drinking the Ocean
"There's something to be said about the 'you' as a writer when you first start a manuscript and the 'you' as the editor when you finish it."
M&S has “support of the estate” for redacted text in Alistair MacLeod story, says publisher
Alexander MacLeod, Alistair's son and a fellow M&S author, said he had "no knowledge of this change."
McClelland & Stewart excises racial epithet from a story in the new Kanata Classics version of Alistair MacLeod’s Island
Better not to include it in this series at all than to include it in even a mildly bowdlerized form.