Americans dominate the Griffin Poetry Prize longlist amid threats of annexation from the U.S. government
Fully seven of the ten longlisted titles are published by American houses.
New thoughts on the oldest profession: Lauren Kirshner examines recent film treatments of sex workers in her new study
Kirshner mounts a cogent and persuasive argument in favour of reevaluating the way society, and the popular culture that reflects it, considers sex work.
“Any truth has a paradox within it”: Sarah Selecky on creativity, deep noticing, and her new book about tapping into your full writing potential
"I'm just giving voice to the part I haven't read yet."
The Toronto International Festival of Authors splits with Harbourfront to become an independent entity
"The challenge of keeping people's attention for eleven days is a lot harder."
Casualties of war: Poet Otoniya J. Okot Bitek’s debut novel focuses on the girls kidnapped by the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army
Okot Bitek uses local folklore as a metaphorical way of bringing the girls' experience into relief.
How do we get people to care about the arts? In The Audacity of Relevance, Alex Sarian has some ideas
It's not the idea of relevance itself that gives one pause, so much as where Sarian chooses to place the emphasis.
Internationally bestselling author Louise Penny announces she will not travel to the U.S. due to tariff war
Penny pointed out that her decision to boycott the U.S. was not a reflection on the American public or her readers, but on the actions of the government in power.
John Ford and Clyde Barrow on the road to Key West: The rugged melancholy of Michael Blouin’s Hard Electric
These are not a young man's verses; they are the ruminations of someone in the twilight of middle-age.
Goodreads and prior restraint: Bloom Books pulls an upcoming romance novel after criticism from early readers
Most often, what these censorious online voices demonstrate is not moral rectitude but a complete inability to understand how to read fiction.
Freedom to Read Week 2025: The Washington Post vs. Jeff Bezos
If a billionaire is in a position to dictate how the media does its job, there is no free press to speak of.