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A photo illustration showing a collage of books with the same book cover, which reads "Plotless Fiction"
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The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction

January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 - by Rachel Gerry

Why the best queer writers are throwing plot out of the window

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An illustrated portrait of Brontez Purnell, largely in brown, black, yellow, and bronze
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Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time

January 24, 2025January 23, 2025 - by Connor Garel

Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust

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In a photo illustration, a woman tries to hold up an enormous tower of books looming and leaning over her
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I List Therefore I Am: Letting Go of Reading Goal Anxiety

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025 - by Tajja Isen

What if tallying up books at the end of the year was less about numbers?

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A photograph of Alice Munro on a board walk near a lake. She is looking away from the camera and wearing a jacket and scarf.
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Why Alice Munro’s Biographer Left Her Daughter’s Abuse Out of His Book

January 3, 2025January 3, 2025 - by Carmine Starnino

An exclusive interview with Robert Thacker on the secret he carried for twenty years

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A photo of a vintage bridge and groom cake topper, ripped in half. Two rings are on separate corners of the picture.
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Are Millennials Ruining Divorce Too?

December 18, 2024December 20, 2024 - by Kelli María Korducki

In a spate of new books, authors grapple with what separation means in the modern age

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A photo illustration with black-and-white portraits of Sadiya Ansari and Tanya Talaga. Behind them is text in Cree and English in red, as well as a Victorian building. A close-cropped yellow-tinged picture shows traffic
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“I Needed to Be Doing This”: When Writers Uncover Family History

December 14, 2024December 14, 2024 - by Sadiya Ansari

Tanya Talaga and Sadiya Ansari discuss ancestors, the colonial project, and intuitive pings

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In a photo illustration, four stacks of books are partially coloured in dark pink, making them look like bar charts of diminishing heights
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Memoirs Are Almost Impossible to Sell

November 26, 2024November 26, 2024 - by Tajja Isen

Publishers are turning away from personal stories. Have readers stopped caring about each other’s lives?

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IYKYK: When Novels Speak a Language Only Part of the Internet Gets

November 1, 2024November 8, 2024 - by Greta Rainbow

Every time the names of products or microcelebrities appear in a book, they prick us like a targeted ad

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A photo illustration of a brick wall covered in the remnants of posters. There's a peeling black-and-white poster with Alice Munro's face and part of her name that has a spraypainted red X across it.
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Undoing the Fairy Tale of Alice Munro

October 15, 2024October 15, 2024 - by Justina Elias

For years, I helped spread a glowing narrative about one of Canada’s most famous authors

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A book lies open to the opening epigraph. A finger with dark red nail polish, points to the quote, the hand resting on the book
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What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway?

October 9, 2024October 9, 2024 - by Tajja Isen

Writers and readers alike love to argue about the quotations in the opening pages of their favourite books

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