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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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PoetryThe Colophon

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

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023

Eliot's vision of a fallen world blighted by urban decay and a somnambulant populace continues to divide readers.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Music, magic, madness, and murder combine in Matt Cahill’s sophomore novel, Radioland

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023

"I wanted to approach magic as a sort of organic, biological thing."

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PoliticsThe ColophonWriters and Writing

Canadian government extends copyright term, but loses the plot

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

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.

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CensorshipInternational LiteratureThe Colophon

Sounding the alarm: What two classic 20th century science fiction novels have to say about our world in 2023

January 3, 2023January 5, 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.

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BooksellingThe Colophon

#BookTok and personal memoirs drive the year’s bestselling books, according to the Toronto Star

December 29, 2022December 29, 2022

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.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s classic dictator novel Mr. President has uncomfortable resonances in our modern era

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022

Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.

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Literary FestivalsThe Colophon

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”

December 16, 2022December 16, 2022

Tristen takes over the role from Maya Baumann, who had been programming manager at WOTS for six years before stepping down in November.

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PublishingReadingThe ColophonWriters and Writing

The loss of Bookforum makes a tough environment for longform book criticism even tougher

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

The loss represents another in the death of a thousand cuts that is unfolding in the arena of print journals and magazines.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Madness, mystery, and mathematics combine in a pair of existential inquisitions by Cormac McCarthy

December 13, 2022December 16, 2022

Uncertainty, both in its quantum nature and its narrative manifestation, is all over these two volumes.

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