As reported by Richie Assaly in the Toronto Star yesterday, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre—the largest queer theater company in the world—is among 18 theater and performing arts organizations that ha…
On October 25, 2023—when Israel’s war on Gaza had already claimed the lives of 6,500 Palestinians, including 2,500 children—the Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad posted …
The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched a curated subscription service, the PalFest Bookshelf, which will deliver the best new books on Palestine, along with bespoke extras, straight to y…
Publishers for Palestine, a coalition of nearly 600 publishers across 50 countries, is calling for an industry-wide boycott of the world’s largest publishing event, the Frankfurt Book Fair, o…
Mosab Abu Toha, the award-winning Palestinian poet, writer, and librarian (who, in November 2023, was kidnapped by Israeli forces as he tried to get his young family out of Gaza) has released a sta…
Yesterday, UNICEF reported that at least 74 Palestinian children were killed by Israel in the first week of 2025. Also yesterday, Haaretz reported that Israel blocked a UN probe into sexual crimes …
Maxine Hong Kingston, Alexander Chee, Alissa Nutting, David Henry Hwang, Eugene Lim, Rachel Khong, Susan Abulhawa, Susan Bernofsky, Laura van den Berg, R. O. Kwon, Bryan Washington, Danzy Senna, an…
The gala for the Giller Prize—formally Canada’s most prestigious literary award, now synonymous with artwashing genocide and apartheid—took place at Toronto’s Park Hyatt hotel last nigh…
Last Monday, we published an open letter signed by over a 1000 prominent authors—including Percival Everett, Sally Rooney, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Annie Ernaux, Arundhati Roy, Peter Carey, Kamila Shamsi…
Lionel Shriver, Lee Child, Bernard Henri-Lévy, Herta Müller, Simon Schama, Howard Jacobson, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Bret Stephens, Yossi Klein Halevi, and David Mamet are among the writers who have…