Despite grappling with so many huge questions, Under the Eye of the Big Bird is an accessible and absorbing novel. And, although tragedy is never far away, there remains humour – and hope.

Have novels left anything unsaid about the internet of the past fifteen years? It feels as though they’ve exhausted the terrain, but perhaps they’ve just made the same points over and over ...

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Child grooming accusations, AI controversies, and financial difficulties: how scandal after scandal led to the downfall of an online novel writing community. This week, NaNoWriMo announced that it ...

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“A year after the devastating events that took place in Fool Me Once, a secret from former Detective Sami Kierce’s college days comes back to haunt him,” reads the synopsis of the new novel.

The novel, “Sparrow and Vine” by Sophie Lark, was due out in April from Bloom Books. Readers with advance copies criticized passages that they found racist — or that praised Elon Musk.

By now, we have a routine. Ella makes a beeline to the graphic novels. Unlike prose, which takes her days to read, Ella will binge these graphic novels in less than an hour. But she’ll come back ...

After a pandemic boom and a post-pandemic bust, the comic book and graphic novel industry came roaring back in 2024. Many of the biggest and best books from the Big Two (aka Marvel and DC) were re ...