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International LiteratureNon-fictionThe Colophon

In a meditative new book, author Jeff Sharlet examines the nexus points of division and discord in the U.S.

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023

The tone Sharlet adopts for most of his book is plaintive, ironic, and not so much aghast at the existential state of his home country as sadly resigned.

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International LiteratureNon-fictionThe Colophon

“The manuscript has always been cursed”: Joel Warner traces the remarkable journey of one of the most notorious literary scrolls in history

March 13, 2023March 14, 2023

Warner acts as part literary historian, part biographer, and part amateur detective.

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

In Lost in Canada, Lydia Perović reconsiders her adopted country’s status as a bastion of liberal democracy

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023

Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

Vancouver writer Jen Sookfong Lee’s new essay collection locates itself at the intersection of pop culture and identity

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

Lee does not make value judgments about high or low culture: she is equally at home watching Wong-Kar Wai films without subtitles and watching twenty seasons' worth of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

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FilmNon-fictionThe Colophon

The auteur as film geek: Quentin Tarantino delivers a vulgar love letter to the films that inspired him

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022

Cinema Speculation is a good primer on the groundbreaking cinema that influenced one of the savviest, most provocative filmmakers of his own generation.

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Non-fictionReadingThe Colophon

Emma Smith’s Portable Magic is a conversational meander through the use and abuse of books in history

November 24, 2022November 24, 2022

Smith guides readers through almost six centuries in which the technology of the codex has remained relatively unchanged.

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CriticismNon-fictionThe Colophon

Tell me a story: Two recent books examine the human impulse toward narrative, for better and worse

November 21, 2022November 22, 2022

"Never trust a storyteller," Gottschall warns, although he also points out that we do, all the time, and it's probably inevitable.

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

Get smart: John Lorinc and Josh O’Kane examine the limits of smart city technology and Sidewalk Labs’s disastrous Toronto experiment

November 5, 2022November 5, 2022

Taken together, Dream States and Sideways comprise a particularly incisive look at the theory and practice of smart cities.

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CriticismNon-fictionThe Horror Show

In It Came from the Closet, queer writers reflect on the horror movies that have influenced, enticed, or repelled them

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022

Together, these essays provide a justification and rationale for queer readings of what may in fact turn out to be one of the queerest genres around.

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

Harold R. Johnson and Tomson Highway invoke Indigenous knowledge and the Trickster figure in books that seek to recapture connection to the land and ourselves

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022

The two Indigenous authors offer different ways of thinking about the stories we tell ourselves and providing suggestions for how to rewrite those stories to our benefit.

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