Hell on Earth: John Vaillant’s Fire Weather is a sobering, terrifying, and infuriating look at how humans have created the conditions for our own extinction
In describing fire – its properties and its behaviour – Vaillant is at his most enthralling.
“The only way I can explain my behaviour”
Martin Amis, sui generis.
As the Festival of Literary Diversity turns eight, founder Jael Richardson looks back at past successes and forward to possible futures
"Finding ways to improve the experience is my favourite thing about the festival," says Richardson.
Carolyn Whitzman’s history of a notorious 19th century Toronto murder illustrates how much has not changed in the interim
A detailed and propulsive true crime story, Clara at the Door with a Revolver is also a work of social history.
Arrest of French publisher’s foreign rights manager results in protests at the London Book Fair
The police used Section 7 of the U.K. Terrorism Act 2000 as justification for the detention.
Two Canadians shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Prize; Scribner U.S. launches a poetry imprint
Iman Mersal and Susan Musgrave are featured on the five-book Griffin shortlist.
Together, Donald Trump and Vince McMahon represent postmodern avatars for our relativistic, media saturated age
The pith and substance of both books involves an interrogation of what is genuine and what is kayfabe.
Six-year-old Stratford resident Izzy the Bookworm raises money to help fight MS by doing what she loves most: reading
Izzy's mother, Lindsey, was diagnosed with the disease when she was thirty.
American author and poverty abolitionist Matthew Desmond turns the spotlight on readers in his latest volume
The alternatives to the limited cost of his proposals should be morally repugnant to the vast majority of thinking and feeling people.
In Letters to Little Comrade, Dan K. Woo offers a satirical, ultimately tragic view of womanhood in modern China
The brief novel's overall structure is frequently at odds with the specificity of the narrative that is unfolding.