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.
Racist incident at the Bookshelf in Guelph, Ontario, involves an encounter with a man trying to remove “anti-white” books from store shelves
"It was like nothing I've ever seen – someone trying to take a whole section," says co-founder Barb Minett.
Prince Harry’s memoir debuts tomorrow after leaks, saturation coverage
"In six weeks, nobody is going to care," says David Worsley of Words Worth Books.
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
Eliot's vision of a fallen world blighted by urban decay and a somnambulant populace continues to divide readers.
Music, magic, madness, and murder combine in Matt Cahill’s sophomore novel, Radioland
"I wanted to approach magic as a sort of organic, biological thing."
Canadian government extends copyright term, but loses the plot
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.