Yesterday, Quillblog pointed to the controversy sparked by Margaret Atwood when she added her name to a petition protesting the potential appearance of a right-wing news channel (sarcastically dubbed "Fox News North") here in Canada. ... Read More »

Authors in the U.K. are upset that the government may make cuts to the national Public Lending Right, which provides authors with a payment of six pence each time one of their books is checked ... Read More »

Dionne Brand, Toronto's poet laureate, has launched a new project in cooperation with the City of Toronto and the Toronto Public Library aimed at bringing poetry into the public sphere. The endeavour, called Poetry is ... Read More »

It's the beginning of book award season, and everyone knows what that means: debates about gender politics. An article by Vit Wagner in Saturday's Toronto Star mused about whether women would dominate this season's Canadian ... Read More »

Sticking pins in the balloons of established literary reputations seems to have become de rigueur in recent weeks. First there was Gabriel Josipivici complaining that stalwarts of English literature “ including Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, ... Read More »

Has it been 10 years already? In the July/August 2001 issue of The Atlantic, B.R. Myers published a now-infamous essay titled "A Reader's Manifesto," in which he complained about the tyranny of pretentiousness that dominated ... Read More »

Heavyweights Martin Amis, John Banville, and Ian McEwan failed to make the cut, but Canada's own Lisa Moore and Emma Donoghue appear on the 2010 Man Booker Prize longlist. The baker's dozen were chosen by ... Read More »

In the latest attempt to convince children that history began when they were born, Hodder has elected to update the language in 10 of Enid Blyton's Famous Five books to be more approachable for 21st ... Read More »