Tell me a story: Two recent books examine the human impulse toward narrative, for better and worse
"Never trust a storyteller," Gottschall warns, although he also points out that we do, all the time, and it's probably inevitable.
Strong digital and non-book sales account for largely positive second-quarter results for Indigo
Sales were particularly robust in the stores' general merchandise division.
A quartet of novellas demonstrates the quirky versatility of the form
Metafiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy are among the genres represented in these brief and intriguing works.
Large-scale layoffs at Amazon include staff in the books division, says CEO
If Amazon is cutting back on its orders, that is sure to cause headaches for publishers entering the all-important holiday selling season.
In her debut novel, Manaka Raman-Wilms tackles climate change and far-right radicalization
Paced like a thriller and cast as a chase novel, The Rooftop Garden is a compulsive yet somewhat vexatious read.
In a slim and idiosyncratic mix of essay and memoir, Haruki Murakami muses on the writing life
All of the essays find Murakami writing in a first-person, confessional style about matters that interest him as a novelist.
Judge Florence Pan finds a “compelling case” that the proposed merger of PRH and S&S would result in “substantial harm” to industry competition
Judge Pan's decision helps protect that part of the publishing ecosystem that does not fall under the umbrella of the Big Five.
Saeed Teebi helps put U of T’s School of Continuing Studies on the CanLit prize map
"The more conscious you are, the more intentional you are about writing, the better you understand why your own stories work or don't," Teebi says.
Novelist and true crime author Rebecca Godfrey dead from complications due to cancer at age 54
Godfrey, who succumbed to complications from lung cancer, was "an extraordinary ... writer whose voice was clean, crisp, and daring on every page."
Get smart: John Lorinc and Josh O’Kane examine the limits of smart city technology and Sidewalk Labs’s disastrous Toronto experiment
Taken together, Dream States and Sideways comprise a particularly incisive look at the theory and practice of smart cities.