Ain’t I a Woman, the first book by the late bell hooks, still retains its power and relevance
The feminist and cultural critic's 1981 polemic reads as though it were written yesterday.
Fawn Parker deconstructs male ego and the image of the great man in literature and academia in two angry, unflinching novels
Despite some missteps and shots at easy targets, Parker's novels combine to form a provocative riposte to a culture that valorizes a certain kind of profane masculinity.
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other instances of bad thinking are the subjects of three recent books about our current epistemological crisis
Fake news, disinformation, propaganda, and other elements of a culture that denies reality are corroding our society. These books show a possible road out of this situation.
Sex and death collide in Like Animals, the debut novel from Eve Lemieux
Like Animals has a modernist sheen, providing a chaotic surface reflective of its protagonist's conflicted and disaffected psychology.
America’s Next Great Author makes lofty promises for what amounts to the ongoing gamification of literature
The notion that a televised competition could produce a "great" writer (always paying careful attention to how the producers define that notoriously slippery word) is questionable at best.
Marvel extends its publishing multiverse by partnering with Penguin Modern Classics for a line of vintage comics reprints
"They’re sort of fairy tales of modernity," says series editor Ben Saunders.
Cultural reporter Elamin Abdelmahmoud talks about his memoir, Son of Elsewhere, his love of The O.C, and what the banjo has in common with the oud
"Even though I've been living in this country for twenty-two years and this is for all intents and purposes my home – it's where I intend to live the rest of my life – elsewhere is this notion that one or two pieces are missing," says Abdelmahmoud.
Norm Nehmetallah sees his role at Invisible Publishing involving continuity rather than wholesale change
"Part of what I want to do is just keep things going," Nehmetallah says. "There are a lot of elements of what they've published lately that I want to nurture."
Bookstores and publishers on both sides of the border react to the recent SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v. Wade
In the U.S. and Canada, the literary community is rallying in support of women whose rights have disappeared as a result of Friday's ruling.
Some thoughts about today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade
"If you are afraid of the ascendancy of fascism in this country – and you would be very foolish not to be right now – then you had better understand that the root issue here has to do with male supremacy and the control of women."