Broken Pencil shutters amid behind-the-scenes controversy over its co-founder’s support for Israel
Niedzviecki is no stranger to poking at contentious culture war issues.
Canadian media outlets file joint lawsuit against OpenAI and ChatGPT with requested damages in the billions
The lawsuit comes a week after news broke about multinational publisher HarperCollins entering into an agreement with an anonymous tech company to license the work of nonfiction authors to help train AI large-language learning programs.
Notes of an also-ran: How to spend an entire year reading and come away feeling as though you’ve read all the wrong things
What these lists are good for is marketing clout.
Joyce Carol Oates continues a late-career hot streak with a collection of subversive suspense stories
Oates's pervading theme across her entire career involves an investigation into the nature of consciousness and the mysteries of personality.
Is licensing authors’ work to train AI a Faustian bargain?
What is a reasonable price for becoming an active participant in one's own obsolescence?
Sheung-King wins Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Batshit Seven; Martha Baillie takes nonfiction award
Sheung-King's win completes the trifecta for Penguin Random House Canada, which published each of the three big fiction prize winners this year.
Anne Michaels wins the 2024 Giller Prize while protesters stage a “counter-gala” outside the Park Hyatt in Toronto
The counter-gala was organized by CanLit Responds and the activist group No Arms in the Arts.
Shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre: University of Winnipeg professor Peter Ives re-examines core principles in his new book, Rethinking Free Speech
Ives distinguishes between the absolutism of Immanuel Kant and the more pragmatic views of John Stuart Mill.
“We’re going to buy The Porcupine’s Quill”: Gordon Hill Press publisher Jeremy Luke Hill on how the Guelph publisher purchased one of Ontario’s most storied small presses
Gordon Hill purchased PQL and will become a vertically integrated unit – a single company with two imprints.
Griffin Prize winner Jordan Abel takes the 2024 Governor General’s Award for English-language Fiction
M&S had a good day, also taking home the nonfiction prize in English.