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International LiteratureThe Colophon

“A high and beautiful wave”: Revisiting the savage journey of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fifty years later

August 4, 2022August 5, 2022

Thompson's wild, violent, funny, anarchic book chronicles a motorcycle derby, an extended drug binge, and – most significantly – the corrosion of the American Dream.

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Stephen King and Jonathan Karp square off in the early days of the DoJ/PRH/S&S antitrust suit

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022

"When I started in this business, there were literally hundreds of imprints, and some of them were run by people with extremely idiosyncratic tastes, one might say."

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

Controversial journalist and confessed “sex radical” Gerald Hannon’s memoir provides an overview of LGBTQ+ history over the past four decades

August 3, 2022August 4, 2022

One need not agree with everything the author writes or believes in order to recognize the importance of his memoir as a document of the LGBTQ+ community's development in Canada.

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International LiteratureNon-fictionThe Colophon

In How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo argues for expanding and interrogating unquestioned interpretive approaches toward art and literature

July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

"White supremacy makes for terrible readers," Castillo writes in this collection of provocative and confrontational essays.

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International LiteratureNon-fictionThe Colophon

In Bad City, journalist Paul Pringle recounts institutional resistance to investigative reporting – from inside his own newsroom

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022

Pringle's book tells the story of a dean at USC who was found in a hotel room with a twenty-one-year-old woman who had overdosed on illegal drugs.

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Non-fictionThe Colophon

Ain’t I a Woman, the first book by the late bell hooks, still retains its power and relevance

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022

The feminist and cultural critic's 1981 polemic reads as though it were written yesterday.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Fawn Parker deconstructs male ego and the image of the great man in literature and academia in two angry, unflinching novels

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

Despite some missteps and shots at easy targets, Parker's novels combine to form a provocative riposte to a culture that valorizes a certain kind of profane masculinity.

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International LiteratureNon-fictionThe Colophon

Conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other instances of bad thinking are the subjects of three recent books about our current epistemological crisis

July 14, 2022July 15, 2022

Fake news, disinformation, propaganda, and other elements of a culture that denies reality are corroding our society. These books show a possible road out of this situation.

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CanLitThe Colophon

Sex and death collide in Like Animals, the debut novel from Eve Lemieux

July 13, 2022July 14, 2022

Like Animals has a modernist sheen, providing a chaotic surface reflective of its protagonist's conflicted and disaffected psychology.

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The ColophonWriters and Writing

America’s Next Great Author makes lofty promises for what amounts to the ongoing gamification of literature

July 12, 2022July 12, 2022

The notion that a televised competition could produce a "great" writer (always paying careful attention to how the producers define that notoriously slippery word) is questionable at best.

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