The matter of “negative” reviews is one that comes up with some regularity, especially in Canada. Do they have the…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
That’s always been one of their reasons for being. Jake Bittle offers up some more: But the pleasure we get…
Nationalist bureaucrats, argues Barbara Kay in an essay for the National Post. CanLit, our sobriquet for Canadian literature, had not yet…
It’s a question that won’t go away. And at a time of declining enrolments in the humanities and the growth…
It’s the publishing world’s version of Moneyball: Amazon has changed its pay structure for self-published authors on the Kindle Unlimited…
. . . buying a book. At least according to Ken Kalfus’s lament. And it’s hard not to feel some…
Over at Partisan Magazine there’s been an interesting discussion of English and French Canadian literatures. Carmine Starnino, editor of Signal…
Arguments over the role of gender in publishing are endless. After first describing some of the problems, Kamila Shamsie has…
A lot of people have spoken out about Amazon as the evil empire of the publishing world, but few as…
Are books getting bigger even as attention spans continue to shrink and sentence lengths shrivel? Well, maybe. Boris Kachka, for one, thinks…