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 »