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CriticismThe Colophon

“The best that is known and thought”: On rereading Matthew Arnold in 2023

February 3, 2023February 4, 2023

Today, Arnold's ideas seem deeply unfashionable. They also seem pressingly relevant.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Laconic prose and a highly unreliable narrator characterize the first new novel from Bret Easton Ellis in more than a decade

February 2, 2023February 3, 2023

The novel is about nothing so much as the nature of storytelling.

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CensorshipInternational LiteratureThe Colophon

Still recovering from last year’s near-fatal public attack, Salman Rushdie releases new novel

February 1, 2023February 3, 2023

The book's release seems like more than just the appearance of new work from a novelist regularly deemed one of the world's most important living writers.

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PublishingThe Colophon

In ominous signs for Big Five publishers, PRH CEO departs and HarperCollins moves to lay off 5% of its North American workforce

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

HarperCollins is also facing an ongoing strike by some 250 unionized employees.

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CanLitPublishingThe Colophon

DIY veteran Jim Munroe experiments with AI art for a short-run print edition of his latest novel, We Are Raccoons

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023

"That kind of direct connection with readers and creators is probably the majority of why I make art in the first place."

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PublishingThe Colophon

ACP taps Jack Illingworth to succeed outgoing executive director Kate Edwards

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023

Illingworth will take up the reins at the ACP beginning March 1.

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PublishingThe Colophon

Former New York prosecutor under fire from two sides over the contents of his upcoming tell-all

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

Both author and publisher are defending the contents of the book and publication is scheduled to go ahead as planned.

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

In Lost in Canada, Lydia Perović reconsiders her adopted country’s status as a bastion of liberal democracy

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023

Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.

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International LiteratureThe Colophon

Lucy Worsley’s new biography of Agatha Christie provides gossipy details of the writer’s life but is light on the work

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023

Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.

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Brief EncountersShort Fiction

Journey Prize amends its practices by declaring all contributors to anthology “winners,” awarding each $1,000

January 20, 2023January 20, 2023

The journals in which the stories originally appeared will receive $200 per published story in the anthology.

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