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ReadingThe Colophon

Six-year-old Stratford resident Izzy the Bookworm raises money to help fight MS by doing what she loves most: reading

April 17, 2023April 17, 2023

Izzy's mother, Lindsey, was diagnosed with the disease when she was thirty.

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International LiteratureNon-fictionThe Colophon

American author and poverty abolitionist Matthew Desmond turns the spotlight on readers in his latest volume

April 14, 2023April 14, 2023

The alternatives to the limited cost of his proposals should be morally repugnant to the vast majority of thinking and feeling people.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

In Letters to Little Comrade, Dan K. Woo offers a satirical, ultimately tragic view of womanhood in modern China

April 13, 2023April 13, 2023

The brief novel's overall structure is frequently at odds with the specificity of the narrative that is unfolding.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

A new biography of Mickey Spillane makes the case for the late pulp novelist’s ongoing importance

April 8, 2023April 8, 2023

Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction provides a thoughtful overview of the man and his work.

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PoetryThe Colophon

Xanax Cowboy, the subversive debut book of poetry from Hannah Green, melds linguistic acrobatics and formal control

April 6, 2023April 8, 2023

The question of how closely the narrator of Xanax Cowboy cleaves to the poet is one of the overarching aspects of the book.

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AwardsThe Colophon

Five-year commitment from Scott Griffin boosts the Writers’ Trust poetry prize from $25,000 to $60,000

April 5, 2023April 5, 2023

The award is presented to a Canadian poet in mid-career.

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International LiteratureThe Colophon

A new biography of “divisive” children’s author Roald Dahl paints a relatively sympathetic portrait of its irascible subject

March 31, 2023March 31, 2023

What emerges from the pages of this biography is a portrait of a complicated, conflicted man

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PublishingThe Colophon

TWUC celebrates “unequivocal” decision in summary judgment against Internet Archive’s digital lending scheme

March 27, 2023March 27, 2023

Judge John G. Koeltl determined that there is "a prima facie case of copyright infringement."

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PublishingThe Colophon

Debby de Groot to stay on at Anansi until October; Leigh Nash joins summer teaching faculty at Humber

March 24, 2023March 24, 2023

De Groot "will be managing the bulk of the upcoming new titles for 2023 and will also be announcing our Winter 2024 list to media."

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International LiteratureNon-fictionThe Colophon

In a meditative new book, author Jeff Sharlet examines the nexus points of division and discord in the U.S.

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023

The tone Sharlet adopts for most of his book is plaintive, ironic, and not so much aghast at the existential state of his home country as sadly resigned.

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