Ongoing Covid-19 pandemic makes for a fall publishing season like no other in memory
The global pandemic, an American presidential election, and a double cohort of books hitting the market make a perfect storm for publishers and booksellers.
On June 4, 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted of kidnapping and murder. Her trial still resonates
A volume of essays by and about the radical Black thinker Angela Davis deals with her time in U.S. prison and has disturbing relevance today.
U.S. publishers file lawsuit against Internet Archive alleging breach of copyright
The publishers’ suit argues that the Internet Archive is engaging in wholesale piracy by offering users free access to in-copyright books.
No, the novel is not dead
Arguments that insist on the centrality of the western canon are most frequently a veil for the politics of exclusion.
Till death do us part: the literary bait-and-switch of Jill Ciment’s The Body in Question
Jill Ciment‘s novel begins as a courtroom thriller, but transforms into a fraught examination of desire and culpability.
Most Canadians are readers, prefer print books according to BookNet Canada survey
A healthy majority of Canadians are readers, according to BookNet Canada, with preferences for mysteries and history books charting high.
Hustle and flow: the Beat sensibility of John Rechy’s City of Night
John Rechy's 1963 debut novel is simultaneously a product of its time and somehow outside of time altogether.
It’s not hoarding if it’s books … But what if it is?
A bibliophile struggles to reconcile a passion for surrounding oneself with books and an impulse toward acquisitiveness.
Where is the Canadian novel to rival Ducks, Newburyport? Hint: look to Quebec
Why isn’t there a Canadian novel to rival last year’s Ducks, Newburyport? There is, just not where you might have been looking for it.
U.K. publisher Galley Beggar Press turns to the public for support after near-collapse of retailer The Book People
The U.K. publisher Galley Beggar Press faces an existential crisis in the wake of the near collapse of online and pop-up retailer The Book People.