In ominous signs for Big Five publishers, PRH CEO departs and HarperCollins moves to lay off 5% of its North American workforce
HarperCollins is also facing an ongoing strike by some 250 unionized employees.
DIY veteran Jim Munroe experiments with AI art for a short-run print edition of his latest novel, We Are Raccoons
"That kind of direct connection with readers and creators is probably the majority of why I make art in the first place."
ACP taps Jack Illingworth to succeed outgoing executive director Kate Edwards
Illingworth will take up the reins at the ACP beginning March 1.
Former New York prosecutor under fire from two sides over the contents of his upcoming tell-all
Both author and publisher are defending the contents of the book and publication is scheduled to go ahead as planned.
In Lost in Canada, Lydia Perović reconsiders her adopted country’s status as a bastion of liberal democracy
Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.
Lucy Worsley’s new biography of Agatha Christie provides gossipy details of the writer’s life but is light on the work
Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.
Saving criticism from the critics
John Guillory is best known for his 1993 book Cultural Capital. That book, which was published at the height of...
Vancouver writer Jen Sookfong Lee’s new essay collection locates itself at the intersection of pop culture and identity
Lee does not make value judgments about high or low culture: she is equally at home watching Wong-Kar Wai films without subtitles and watching twenty seasons' worth of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Around the web: Standing up for morally ambiguous characters, a romance novelist fakes her own death, RIP Russell Banks, and more
Heading into 2023, it appears that inflation, which is being felt particularly where hardcovers are concerned, has booksellers nervous about purchasing patterns over the coming months.
Deepti Kapoor’s second novel is a high-octane gangster thriller set in India
Kapoor plays with the scale of her novel, alternately providing an epic canvas of corruption in political and business life and zooming in on the personal travails of her main characters.