“An instrument of empowerment”: Hugh Stephens offers a rationale for a robust Canadian copyright system
The Canadian situation is in stark contrast to other Western countries that have more robust copyright protections.
Access Copyright gutted as government inaction on addressing flawed legislation persists
All of this testifies to a copyright system that is beyond broken.
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything”: Milan Kundera, one of the great Eastern European writers of the 20th century, dead at 94
He was unafraid to create unlikable characters and asked his readers to confront material designed to make them uncomfortable in their own moral certainties.
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.