Ken Whyte has some thoughts on this week’s Indigo news. Spoiler: it’s not good
Now would seem like a good time to visit your local independent bookseller and buy a book.
Indigo founder, Heather Reisman, to retire; four board members exit in latest upheaval for company
Indigo was under serious pressure even before yesterday's surprise announcement.
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.
Grim reading: Will Self surveys the literary landscape and collapses in a slough of despond
Self's surpassing hauteur and in-your-face grandiosity have a propulsive charm in themselves
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.
As the Festival of Literary Diversity turns eight, founder Jael Richardson looks back at past successes and forward to possible futures
"Finding ways to improve the experience is my favourite thing about the festival," says Richardson.
Carolyn Whitzman’s history of a notorious 19th century Toronto murder illustrates how much has not changed in the interim
A detailed and propulsive true crime story, Clara at the Door with a Revolver is also a work of social history.
Arrest of French publisher’s foreign rights manager results in protests at the London Book Fair
The police used Section 7 of the U.K. Terrorism Act 2000 as justification for the detention.
Two Canadians shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Prize; Scribner U.S. launches a poetry imprint
Iman Mersal and Susan Musgrave are featured on the five-book Griffin shortlist.