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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The Case Against Shakespeare
The Bard has had 400 years in the limelight. It’s time our academic obsession came to an end
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Stop Calling Racialized Writers “Raw”
There’s a burden on writers of colour to tell stories of trauma. Authors like Dany Laferrière refuse to play along
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Hope Is Good. Disappointment Is Better
What the best novels teach us about the virtues of disillusionment
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