The Calgary Herald looks at the boom in Canadian crime writing, from larger houses to small imprints like Rendezvous Press and Dundurn's Castle Street Mystery series. "As literary fiction has become increasingly inaccessible, crime fiction ... Read More »

This week, the University of Saskatchewan unveiled a poem written by Métis leader Louis Riel in the weeks before his execution for High Treason in 1885. Riel addressed the poem to Robert Gordon, a jailer ... Read More »

The New York Inquirer has an interview with Keith Gessen, one of the brains behind the trendy U.S. literary journal n+1. Gessen discusses the magazine's imagined rivalry with McSweeney's, its place in the litmag landscape, ... Read More »

For your Remembrance Day reading, Simon Crump reviews Frederic Manning's The Middle Parts of Fortune (published in an expurgated version in 1930) in The Guardian as "easily the best book I've ever read about the ... Read More »

If current wars are preoccupying you this Remembrance Day, Jared Ferrie's article in The Tyee recommends two books on Afghanistan to help understand that very complicated mess.Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid has written extensively on religious ... Read More »