The lineup has just been announced for this year's PEN World Voices Festival, being held in New York from April 27 to May 3. This year's theme is Evolution/Revolution, and participants will include high-profile authors ... Read More »

Today has been a big day for Twitter. (OK, lately every day seems like a big day for Twitter.) Over at The Globe and Mail, columnist Ian Brown conducted a live Twitter conversation over lunch, ... Read More »

Forty-six years after poet Sylvia Plath took her own life, her son Nicholas has hanged himself. Like his mother, Nicholas “ the son of Plath and poet Ted Hughes “ had struggled for much of ... Read More »