“I wanted to stimulate people”: Canadian playwright Brad Fraser on provocation, the theatrical establishment, and his new memoir
“I realized the adult world was every bit as fucked up as anything else."
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“I realized the adult world was every bit as fucked up as anything else."
“Even under the blockade, it made us feel as a part of the world,” says one writer and translator about the cultural significance of the demolished store.
The novel is among a series of recent thrillers that focus on writers behaving badly.
The potential for importing internet and cable news level divisiveness into publishing appears more dangerous than the tradition of publishing across the political spectrum.
The through-line in Thompson’s book involves a historical inability on the part of Western culture to see Black people as fully human.
Huysmans shared his protagonist’s disgust with humanity and longed to create a new kind of literature.
The Calgary literary festival’s streaming service is one part of an ecosystem that will include online content and live events.
Griffin Poetry Prize winner Abel has crafted a cross-genre work that addresses questions of identity and the ways we are affected by past hurt.
A Borgesian story about literary posterity and the fickleness of memory, from an Australian master.
A powerful monument to what the short form is capable of from “the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century.”