A Brooklyn bookstore abruptly cancels an onstage author event because one of the participants is a “Zionist”
"There’s an ideological litmus test that’s being applied specifically to Jews in order to appear on stage," says author Joshua Leifer.
What a rush: Investigative reporter Max Marshall details how a Southern U.S. fraternity became the hub for an extensive drug-running operation
The tale Marshall unfolds is a narrative of crime and hubris among the scions of the country's elite establishment members.
The worlds of therapy and nature operate in tandem in Melanie Siebert’s long poem Signal Infinities
Siebert's empathetic approach to her material is admirable and she has the capacity for cutting observation.
Irish author Kevin Barry turns his gaze Stateside for a brutal, beautiful neo-Western
The Heart in Winter is easily one of the best books of the year.
Worrisome 20th century antecedents preoccupy Ken McGoogan in his new work of biographical history
The chimes between Europe of the 1930s and American in the 2010s and early 2020s are clear and persuasive.
A new volume of interviews provides an interesting – if proscribed – view of Canadian poets and poetry
Jones's preference for selecting elder statesmen and women generally omits a broad range of voices that have helped push Canadian poetry out of the confines of its colonial past.
The harsh realities of rural Newfoundland provide the backdrop for Susie Taylor’s debut story collection
The Newfoundland of Vigil is an unforgiving place, and Taylor treats it, along with her cast of characters, without an ounce of sentimentality.
Some thoughts on the centenary of James Baldwin’s birth
Baldwin's literary aesthetic was predicated upon the notion of the complexity of individuals, regardless of race, class, or occupation.
Recent legal decision around “Bling Bling” rapper only the latest attempt to criminalize rap lyrics in America
If the First Amendment provides protection for every artistic endeavour except rap music, it then becomes impossible not to see this Constitutional provision as a racist instrument.
Brief encounters: “A Scandalous Woman” by Edna O’Brien
O'Brien, who died on July 27 at the age of ninety-three, caused much uproar among conservative Irish Catholics for her frank and unsparing examinations of female sexuality.