Mel Gibson, purity rings, and the Rapture: Joelle Kidd’s Jesusland examines the weird world of evangelical Christian pop culture
Throughout, there is an unnerving focus on violence as core to the evangelical worldview.
EMWF exec director has ties to foundation with financial interest in AI once set to appear at fest
Jasper Smith, executive director at EMWF, is professionally associated with the Musagetes Foundation.
“I heard you shot your woman down”: A new book explores the surprising history of the song “Hey Joe”
Schneider does a good job of delineating the extent to which violent material has pervaded the history of music.
Eden Mills responds to criticism by dropping workshop featuring “AI author”
The festival organizers thanked the literary community for its feedback, saying they "take it seriously."
Eden Mills Writers’ Festival stirs online anger over including an “AI author” in its lineup
Technology is a tool, it is not a collaborator or a teacher or a creator.
Trying to learn how to walk like heroes: Peter Ames Carlin’s new book is a deep dive into the making of Bruce Springsteen’s breakout album
There is no doubting the accomplishment of that record, just as there was no question in anyone's mind how important it was at the time.
Giles Blunt talks about trading in his series mystery character for historical fiction in his latest novel, Bad Juliet
The touchstone for Bad Juliet occurred during a vacation Blunt and his wife took to the Adirondacks.
Montreal author Irena Karafilly explores grief and infidelity in her novel Tunes for Dancing Bears
Karafilly's narrative places its two main characters in a situation that puts an extreme stress test on their already fractured marriage.
A European sensibility infuses the stories in Montreal resident Mikhail Iossel’s latest story collection
Iossel's chosen technique has the paradoxical effect of simultaneously speeding the prose up and slowing it down.
Eighty years after the bombing of Hiroshima, John Hersey’s indelible journalistic excavation has things to teach us
Hiroshima has been considered a forerunner of the New Journalism that flourished in the 1960s.