The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there's no shortage of new releases from marquee names. In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the fall's ... Read More »
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In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season's new books. MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY Revolutionary activity in the Middle East and North Africa has created an appetite for stories about life in these ... Read More »
Critic, gadfly, supporter of the Iraq war, misogynist, atheist. Christopher Hitchens was all these things. He was also one of the most erudite and plain-spoken writers of his day, possessed of intelligence, wit, and interests ... Read More »
December 16, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Earlier this week, The Sunday Times ran a lengthy interview with novelist Sebastian Faulks in which he had this to say about the Koran: It's a depressing book. It really is. It's just the rantings ... Read More »
August 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
With the latest film adaptation of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, set to hit theatres at midnight tonight, a review in L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, has given the ... Read More »
July 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
From CBC.ca: A judge in Britain has sentenced three Muslim men to 4½ years in prison each for an arson attack on the home of a publisher of a novel about the child bride of ... Read More »
July 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Well, she sure does know her target audience. In a profile in the August 2009 of Vanity Fair, Alaska governor Sarah Palin revealed that her forthcoming memoir will be published both by HarperCollins (as previously ... Read More »
July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
A blog post on Torontoist yesterday looked at Toronto printer Harmony Printing, and its refusal to produce author Adam Bourret's autobiographical graphic novel I'm Crazy, a story that deals with "histories, secrets, obsessive compulsive disorder, ... Read More »
New York Times columnist Ross Douhat (who does not look at all like David Brent ... well, maybe just a little) believes that Dan Brown's novels are successful not just because the books are cheesy ... Read More »
May 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book culture, Opinion
Publishers Weekly is reporting that U.S. book production both rose and fell in 2008, according to statistics just released from Bowker's Books in Print database. While the number of new and revised titles released by ... Read More »
May 19, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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