"It all begins with a book." So claims the promo video for Small Demons (see below), a new online venture that provides users with a concordance of all the real-world ephemera that appears in their ... Read More »

The road to English-language publication for Chinese-born, Toronto-based Ling Zhang's second novel, Gold Mountain Blues, has not been especially smooth, but it appears to have hit yet another speedbump. Earlier this year, allegations of plagiarism ... Read More »

The notoriously secretive folks in Sweden are rumoured to be releasing the name of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient later this week. Although the selection process is veiled in mystery (no shortlist of ... Read More »

The Dead Sea Scrolls, believed to be the oldest extant Biblical texts, are available for viewing online for the first time as of today. According to PCWorld, the online exhibit, curated by Jerusalem's Israel Museum, ... Read More »

There's no mystery as to why award recognition is coveted by writers and publishers alike: in addition to the prestige that accrues to winning a literary prize like the Scotiabank Giller Prize or the Governor ... Read More »

The shortlist for the inaugural Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for non-fiction includes two books from 2010, a weighty biography of a former prime minister, and a small-press book from out West. The five nominated ... Read More »

Andrew Niccol, the Australian writer-director who wrote the screenplays for such acclaimed science-fiction films as The Truman Show and Gattaca, is not justified in appropriating the plot of a Harlan Ellison story for his latest ... Read More »