Giller Prize drops Scotiabank, loses two jurors
Two jurors – Jordan Abel and Aaron Tucker – have been quietly scrubbed from the Giller Prize website.
Independent Canadian publishers respond to Trump’s tariffs with caution, confusion
The chaotic nature of the tariff rollout, while not surprising from the Trump administration, is nevertheless a challenge in trying to determine how best to respond.
Stranger things: Edwin Frank surveys the landscape of the 20th century novel and finds at its heart a restless uncertainty about its own condition
The author for the most part eschews theory, opting instead to read the works through a lens of discursive and biographical criticism.
House of Anansi’s Spiderline imprint is undergoing a rebrand, branching out into other genres
The inaugural title in Spiderline's "new direction" was An Ordinary Violence by Adriana Chartrand.
In author and bookseller Jenny Kiefer’s debut novel, four hikers discover horror in the Kentucky wilderness
For those looking for a solid throwback to the great pulp horror novels of the ’80s, this one is a good bet.
Bad vibes: In her first book, music journalist Liz Pelly provides a caustic critique of the ways Spotify is degrading music
Pelly's book is a sobering look at the real and measurable harms the service is having on the global music ecosystem.
Rise of the machines: Nnedi Okorafor’s metafictional postapocalypse is surpassingly depressing
Okorafor does not miss a single opportunity to critique the contemporary media establishment.
Board of the Kingston WritersFest pulls the plug on the sixteen-year-old annual event
Ticket sales accounted for 14% of the festival's revenue in 2024.
Surviving the (mis)information age: Two books address our crisis of knowledge and trust
Both books provide salient warnings for the perils our current distrustful, paranoid, and misinformation-saturated culture throws up.
Remembering Andrew Pyper, the bestselling author who shattered boundaries between literary and genre fiction
“When you look back in fifty years on the great writers in Canadian literature, I think he’s going to have to be included in that.”