Saving criticism from the critics
John Guillory is best known for his 1993 book Cultural Capital. That book, which was published at the height of...
Vancouver writer Jen Sookfong Lee’s new essay collection locates itself at the intersection of pop culture and identity
Lee does not make value judgments about high or low culture: she is equally at home watching Wong-Kar Wai films without subtitles and watching twenty seasons' worth of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
The debut novel by Jessica Johns reclaims Indigenous horror tropes in a story about pervasive familial grief
What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.
Around the web: Standing up for morally ambiguous characters, a romance novelist fakes her own death, RIP Russell Banks, and more
Heading into 2023, it appears that inflation, which is being felt particularly where hardcovers are concerned, has booksellers nervous about purchasing patterns over the coming months.
With “The Heart of a Pig,” novelist and book columnist James Grainger resurrects the serial format
Grainger's horror Substack, The Veil, is parcelling out the longish story in several instalments.
Deepti Kapoor’s second novel is a high-octane gangster thriller set in India
Kapoor plays with the scale of her novel, alternately providing an epic canvas of corruption in political and business life and zooming in on the personal travails of her main characters.
Undertow Publications launches fundraising campaign to keep the journal Weird Horror alive
The goal is to raise $4,800, which will be used to defray production costs and to pay contributors.
Racist incident at the Bookshelf in Guelph, Ontario, involves an encounter with a man trying to remove “anti-white” books from store shelves
"It was like nothing I've ever seen – someone trying to take a whole section," says co-founder Barb Minett.
Prince Harry’s memoir debuts tomorrow after leaks, saturation coverage
"In six weeks, nobody is going to care," says David Worsley of Words Worth Books.
Fragments shored against ruins: Matthew Hollis charts the convoluted and painful path toward T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece in a new “biography” of The Waste Land
Eliot's vision of a fallen world blighted by urban decay and a somnambulant populace continues to divide readers.