Why the Sudden Interest in Black Authors Doesn’t Feel like a Victory
What does it mean to navigate the fact that it took a Black person’s death for some to finally decide my books were worth reading?
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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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Last Publisher Left Standing: Why Books Are Facing a Bleak Future
Winner-take-all mergers spell bad news for authors and readers alike
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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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How COVID-19 Infected the Publishing Industry
The pandemic has pushed booksellers and publishers to the brink
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How Not to Write a Book about a Minority Experience
Publishers increasingly lean on outside experts to vet books for cultural insensitivity. Is it working?
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The Upside of the Globe’s Controversial Redesign
What the response to the newspaper’s new look reveals about the way we read
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How Canada Sold Out Its Publishing Industry
The sale of a beloved Canadian publisher to a foreign entity—in the face of laws prohibiting such transactions—may be one of the country’s worst cultural crimes
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Turning the Page
Our fragile publishing industry is struggling to adjust to a new world in which the printed word may be an afterthought
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