A writer’s pursuit of her latest subject leads to unexpected places in Lisa Tuttle’s uncanny novella
The unease that creeps into this story is not overwhelming, but unnerving in its very ordinariness.
In Consent, Montreal-born author Jill Ciment revisits her earlier book to raise questions about the memoir as a vessel for truth telling
Ciment does not ultimately answer any questions, content to let her reader sit with them.
Short story month 2024: Returning characters and recycled themes mark an intermittently interesting new collection from Stephen King
The biggest disappointment in this book is its relative lack of creepiness.
Salman Rushdie’s terse memoir offers a highly personal reckoning with the public attack that almost claimed his life
"Art is not a luxury. It stands at the essence of our humanity, and it asks for no special protection except the right to exist."
Fifty years on, Stephen King’s debut novel still retains its power to shock and disturb
Appearing in 1974, Carrie benefited from the groundswell of interest in literary horror that began with Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby.
Laugh lines: Robert Plunket’s debut novel, long out of print, features one of the most venal, amoral, shallowest protagonists in recent American literature
One characteristic of Elliot that is most telling is also the one that may be least apparent on a cursory read.
More, more, more: Becca Rothfeld extols the virtues of excess in her debut volume of essays
Wanting in Rothfeld's analysis is the recognition of how difficult it is to compose a short yet consequential piece of writing.
A world elsewhere: Balsam Karam’s first novel in English translation is a quietly shattering meditation on absence and loss
Karam has produced a quietly shattering examination of disaffection and anguish.
Dying wishes: When, and how, should literary heirs or executors be permitted to publish work against an author’s explicit demands?
Gonzalo García Barcha and his elder brother Rodrigo go so far as to call the publication of Until August "an act of betrayal."
David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu argue copyright creep is a global problem, without considering Canada
Throughout their book, Bellos and Montagu wilfully and disingenuously muddy the waters around issues such as fair use.