Colleagues remember Kirk Howard, founder of Dundurn Press, as a shy but committed publisher of Canadian books
"He was profoundly intelligent, but quite quiet. It was sometimes hard to know what he was thinking."
Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay file suit against OpenAI over alleged copyright violation
The suit would also have to prove that OpenAI's langauge models are indeed "infringing derivative works."
Continuity and growth mark the twin poles for Karen Brochu, House of Anansi Press’s newly appointed publisher
"It's very important to me that we look forward and thrive and that we signal stability to the market," says Anansi president Semareh Al-Hillal.
The fight of their lives: In the debut novel by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, prisoners battle to the death on an extreme-sports reality TV show
One of satire's great attributes is its ability to turn its spotlight on its recipient.
For art’s sake: Michael Finkel examines the life and crimes of the world’s most prolific art thief
Ultimately, Breitweiser's psychology remains something of a mystery.
Bookforum returns, with a gamble that subscriptions can sustain it over the long haul
The reappearance of Bookforum provides an interesting test case in whether it really is possible to sustain a viable vehicle for literary criticism.
Burnaby, B.C., writer Logan Macnair’s new novel is a scabrous and frightening satire about far-right radicalization online
Troll is not a book liable to find a wide mainstream audience.
David C.C. Burgeois’s debut novel, about an indenture with ties to William Shakespeare, is a stylistic mashup that may suffer from too many notes
The core of the novel has a propulsion and a dramatic weight that works in its favour.
Sex, religion, and family collide in Liz Harmer’s sublime second novel, Strange Loops
If there is a God hovering over Harmer's narrative, it is of the Old Testament variety.
Telling the reader to jump in the lake: some thoughts on censorship, self-censorship, and the Elizabeth Gilbert affair
It's hard not to see Gilbert's experience as one of selective persecution.