Editor Stephen Elliott’s slim political pamphlet Where to Invade Next (McSweeney’s, 96 pages, $16) begins with a quote by General Wesley Clark describing US government plans from 2001 to “take out seven countries in five years.”
Read Full StoryThe most radical thing about Sharp Teeth (Harper Collins, 320 pages, $24.95) isn’t the story that Toby Barlow has come up with — though it is suitably gonzo — it’s that Harper Collins published a ...
What is “noir” as a literary, rather than a cinematic, genre? Brooklyn-based publisher Akashic’s Noir Series — each title of which brings together 16 writers from a select city, the latest one ...
Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere (Free Press, 336 pages, $29.99) by John Nathan, translator of Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburo Oe, quietly appeared during this year’s fake memoir season. ...
How the most controversial bookstore in Canada this year bulldozed its independent Prairie legacy into Don Mills.
Writer tells all about her anxious life and starts a website for 40 million other people to say something about theirs
There’s something that has always irked me about the work of world famous book designer (OK, maybe he’s the only famous book designer) Chip Kidd.
Can a nice guy gossip columnist really sell books where the meaner-spirited ones could not?
The pitch on Toronto: A City Becoming, at least to those of us in the alt-media, is that it’s “uTOpia for grown-ups.” That is, in the wake of the staggering (by small press standards) success of Coach House ...
An audience with Richard Florida as he launches the book inspired by his quest to find a place that defined him best.