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PublishingThe Colophon

ACP taps Jack Illingworth to succeed outgoing executive director Kate Edwards

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023

Illingworth will take up the reins at the ACP beginning March 1.

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PublishingThe Colophon

Former New York prosecutor under fire from two sides over the contents of his upcoming tell-all

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

Both author and publisher are defending the contents of the book and publication is scheduled to go ahead as planned.

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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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International LiteratureThe Colophon

Lucy Worsley’s new biography of Agatha Christie provides gossipy details of the writer’s life but is light on the work

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023

Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.

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CriticismThe Colophon

Saving criticism from the critics

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023

John Guillory is best known for his 1993 book Cultural Capital. That book, which was published at the height of...

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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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BooksellingFilmThe ColophonWriters and Writing

Around the web: Standing up for morally ambiguous characters, a romance novelist fakes her own death, RIP Russell Banks, and more

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023

Heading into 2023, it appears that inflation, which is being felt particularly where hardcovers are concerned, has booksellers nervous about purchasing patterns over the coming months.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Deepti Kapoor’s second novel is a high-octane gangster thriller set in India

January 12, 2023January 12, 2023

Kapoor plays with the scale of her novel, alternately providing an epic canvas of corruption in political and business life and zooming in on the personal travails of her main characters.

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BooksellingCensorshipThe Colophon

Racist incident at the Bookshelf in Guelph, Ontario, involves an encounter with a man trying to remove “anti-white” books from store shelves

January 10, 2023January 10, 2023

"It was like nothing I've ever seen – someone trying to take a whole section," says co-founder Barb Minett.

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BooksellingThe Colophon

Prince Harry’s memoir debuts tomorrow after leaks, saturation coverage

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023

"In six weeks, nobody is going to care," says David Worsley of Words Worth Books.

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