Agustina Bazterrica’s strange and uncomfortable short stories channel the ghost of Borges
There are pleasures aplenty to be found in Bazterrica's bitter and poisoned bouquet.
Bookforum returns, with a gamble that subscriptions can sustain it over the long haul
The reappearance of Bookforum provides an interesting test case in whether it really is possible to sustain a viable vehicle for literary criticism.
Karen Brochu named new publisher at House of Anansi Press following Leigh Nash’s departure earlier this year; Douglas Richmond named editorial director
“I look forward to putting my own stamp on a storied house,” says Brochu.
Burnaby, B.C., writer Logan Macnair’s new novel is a scabrous and frightening satire about far-right radicalization online
Troll is not a book liable to find a wide mainstream audience.
David C.C. Burgeois’s debut novel, about an indenture with ties to William Shakespeare, is a stylistic mashup that may suffer from too many notes
The core of the novel has a propulsion and a dramatic weight that works in its favour.
Sex, religion, and family collide in Liz Harmer’s sublime second novel, Strange Loops
If there is a God hovering over Harmer's narrative, it is of the Old Testament variety.
Telling the reader to jump in the lake: some thoughts on censorship, self-censorship, and the Elizabeth Gilbert affair
It's hard not to see Gilbert's experience as one of selective persecution.
“There’s no such thing as a life without bloodshed”: Cormac McCarthy, spiritual heir to Melville and Faulkner, dies at age 89
McCarthy's outlook was bleak and violent because the world he observed was bleak and violent.
AI will revolutionize publishing, but not in the ways people think, says Thad McIlroy. That’s still not a good thing
Bleeding the humanity out of one of the most humanist endeavours remaining in our capitalist system – all in the name of soulless efficiency – is abhorrent.
“Why don’t you just put out those demos?”: Bruce Springsteen, creative tension, and the accidental creation of a musical masterpiece
Zanes is familiar with the technical aspects of production, and his descriptions of how Nebraska was captured on tape provide some of the most fascinating moments in his book.