literature

Desmond Cole Wants You to Know That Canada Isn’t All That Nice

In his new book, ‘The Skin We’re In,’ he clearly outlines the systemic racism that makes our neighbor to the north anything but the affable bastion of progressivism we like to think it is

Gary Lutz, the Eternal Writer’s Writer, Steps into His Legacy

‘The Complete Gary Lutz’ inducts a cult favorite into the literary canon

The Eerie Literature of the Slow Apocalypse

These authors know that the end of the world doesn’t happen overnight

What Fiction Like ‘The End of October’ Gets Right (And Wrong) About Pandemics

Lawrence Wright’s new novel about a coronavirus that develops in Indonesia and spreads throughout the world couldn’t be more prescient. It’s also pandemic literature’s clear standard-bearer in terms of accuracy.