Books

“Dark Cloud in Isabel Pass” By Tom Sexton; Loom Press, 2025; $20; 87 pages. Tom Sexton, who died…

Photo by Netflix The world is quite ludicrously disappointing at the moment, so I’ve been taking refuge in…

A shake-up of New Zealand’s curriculum has resulted in Māori words being scrapped from a selection of books…

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan (Bloomsbury, £16.99) Patrick Ryan’s emotionally engaging and psychologically astute novel follows two couples over…

How is the messy girl trend working for you? Have you been “smoking like a chimney” and “pulling…

Crystal Semaganis has made the 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist for In Case I Die.  The winner of the 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize will receive $6,000…

The Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to…

The number of Americans who read for pleasure has fallen by 40%, according to a new study. Researchers…

The banning of books, it would be easy to think, is a relic of less enlightened ages. The Catholic…

Maria Semple at a Winter Words event for “Where’d You Go Bernadette?” in 2014.Daniel Bayer/Courtesy photo The local…

Michelle Hébert has made the 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist for A Mother’s Guide to Urban Gardening.  The winner of the 2025 CBC Nonfiction…