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How an L.A. writer distilled American hope and despair into summer's big literary debut
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoTess Gunty's novel, "The Rabbit Hutch," out Aug. 2, follows a brilliant, troubled young woman,...
Eileen Myles thinks some of the world's best writing is pathetic (and that's good)
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoEileen Myles' new anthology, "Pathetic Literature," grew out of a pathbreaking conference at UC San...
Voices: How observing cats can make you a better human
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoAlthough cats often look alike, their individual personalities always shine through – because they...
Why ‘Beef’ Doesn’t Focus on Race: ‘These Characters Happen to Be Asian American, but There’s So Much...
Variety via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoWarning: This story contains mild spoilers for “Beef,” available to watch on Netflix now. Lee Sung...
Look up: How the Sistine Chapel changed this Canadian author's life
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoEven if you make it to Rome, it's no easy feat to get a glimpse of the most celebrated ceiling in...
Eleanor Catton's 6 spell-binding books with themes of activism
The Week via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoEleanor Catton. Courtesy Image New Zealand novelist Eleanor Catton is the author of The Luminaries,...
Jennifer Lawrence, A-List Actors Threaten to Strike in Letter to SAG
Rolling Stone via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoEarlier this month, members of the Screen Actors Guild voted to authorize a strike if their...
Review: Eldercare is a crisis, personal and political, in Lynne Tillman's unsparing memoir
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoEleven years can be a staggeringly long time. This is how long the novelist and short story writer Lynne Tillman spent caring for her declining mother — an exhausting period of her life compressed ...
George Saunders' saintly, disappointing new stories: A tender-hearted takedown
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years ago'Liberation Day,' George Saunders' first published story collection in nine years, is beautifully written as ever but feels off balance in many places.