University of Toronto Press acquires Irwin Law assets in latest expansion of its publishing program
The acquisition is the latest in a series of expansionist moves for UTP.
Exile, anxiety, and intimations of mortality course through two new collections of poetry, from Maria Stepanova and Myna Wallin
Holy Winter is as much about the practice of writing poetry, and its place in a riven world, as it is about exile and anxiety over geopolitical fractures.
The Giller foundation sticks with Scotiabank, while losing one juror and the number of writers pulling their books rises to nineteen
Dismantling systems of arts funding in a capitalist society is notoriously difficult.
A group of fifteen authors pull their books from consideration for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in protest of its main sponsor’s investment in an Israeli arms manufacturer
The signatories are calling for the Giller to lobby Scotiabank to fully divest from Elbit Systems and for the prize to sever ties with the Azrieli Foundation, Indigo, and Audible.
Revelations that Alice Munro stayed with the man who sexually assaulted her nine-year-old daughter force a reckoning with the Nobel prize winner and her art
The article in the Star is heartbreaking.
A recently discovered, fragmentary novel by the notorious French author Céline raises questions about how – or if – to publish such posthumous work
War is potent if only for its concentration.
Two veteran poets explore the ineffable by way of the tangible and everyday
Both volumes contain references to the Hebrew word "hineni," translated as "here I am."
Brief encounters: “Growing Things” by Paul Tremblay
Tremblay's entire fiction is built on contingency and ambiguity.
Alice Munro’s debut collection, newly reissued, demonstrates an artist fully formed from the start
The stories in Dance of the Happy Shades establish many of the characteristics that would come to be associated with Munro's oeuvre.
The debut novel from Montreal author Nour Abi-Nakhoul is an hallucinatory descent into existential horror
Ontological queries pervade the novel, which is, at least in part, about the inability to outrun violence or harmful past experience.