Heti takes her autofiction to the next level by publishing her journals—with editing help from Excel
When a giant of Caribbean literature moved to Calgary, Canadian critics ignored him. He probably didn’t care
Several new books grapple with displacement and diasporic living in ways that feel particularly resonant in this moment
As sales slump, the labour of trying to bottle hype is largely left to writers
I don’t want to be told what’s going to happen and I definitely don’t want to be told what the book is “about”
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Memoir writing offers women defined by their images a space to speak. But we’re seldom satisfied with what they give us
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Did the bookstore chain sell its soul when it started selling vitamins, vibrators, and $800 patio umbrellas?
The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told
I came of age loving the works of Milan Kundera and Derek Walcott. Now, as a professor of literature, I have to ask tough questions
The acclaimed astronaut’s latest novel fails to blast off