Prince Harry’s memoir debuts tomorrow after leaks, saturation coverage
"In six weeks, nobody is going to care," says David Worsley of Words Worth Books.
Fragments shored against ruins: Matthew Hollis charts the convoluted and painful path toward T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece in a new “biography” of The Waste Land
Eliot's vision of a fallen world blighted by urban decay and a somnambulant populace continues to divide readers.
Music, magic, madness, and murder combine in Matt Cahill’s sophomore novel, Radioland
"I wanted to approach magic as a sort of organic, biological thing."
Canadian government extends copyright term, but loses the plot
The extension of the copyright term by twenty years – or fifty, or one hundred years – is meaningless if educational institutions remain free to pillage copyright works with impunity.
Sounding the alarm: What two classic 20th century science fiction novels have to say about our world in 2023
Both books portray societies in which strife and discord have been replaced with a kind of analgesic conformity, but the social cohesion comes at a stiff price.
#BookTok and personal memoirs drive the year’s bestselling books, according to the Toronto Star
Both the overall nonfiction and Canadian nonfiction lists are dominated by celebrity memoirs and personal writing at the expense of more deeply researched objective nonfiction.
Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s classic dictator novel Mr. President has uncomfortable resonances in our modern era
Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.
Sienna Tristen on their new role as programming manager at Word on the Street: “We’re here to feed the soul through art and literature and good conversation”
Tristen takes over the role from Maya Baumann, who had been programming manager at WOTS for six years before stepping down in November.
The loss of Bookforum makes a tough environment for longform book criticism even tougher
The loss represents another in the death of a thousand cuts that is unfolding in the arena of print journals and magazines.
Madness, mystery, and mathematics combine in a pair of existential inquisitions by Cormac McCarthy
Uncertainty, both in its quantum nature and its narrative manifestation, is all over these two volumes.