The Tarnished Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott
How educators are teaching the poetry of the man who oversaw residential schools
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Hotline Proves Happy Endings Are Still Worth Writing
Fiction about immigrants tends toward melancholy and tragedy. Dimitri Nasrallah’s new novel delivers something different
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Horror, Horror Everywhere: New Books Are Shaking the Genre to Its Core
Writers are taking spooky books to places they’ve never gone before
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Sometimes Baffling, Sometimes Sublime: Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour
The author sets out to process the loss of a father—and ends up reimagining the universe
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Bad Company: A New Novel Strips Away the Veneer of Progressive Rhetoric
Naben Ruthnum takes on diversity charades, token promotions, and the social justice facades of corporations
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Textual Healing: The Novel World of Bibliotherapy
How literature is helping people navigate mental health issues
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The Year of Witch Lit: Weird Women Dominated New Stories of Suspicion and Rupture
Three novels about confusion, distrust, and fear mirror our pandemic moment
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The New Pamphleteers: Why One Publisher Is Betting on Short Books with Big Ideas
Biblioasis’s new series tries to incite debate and fill a hole in the publishing landscape
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What We Lose When Literary Criticism Ends
With mainstream media uninterested in books coverage that doesn’t get clicks, writers and readers are being left out in the cold
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