It’s a cozy evening in 1949 in a small shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and something big is about to transpire, but no one knows it yet. Richard Bonnycastle, a Canadian publishing executive with a ...

Where would we be without genre labels? Free to write new and weird idioms, possibly. But a couple of recent blog posts make the case that genres aren’t cages, they’re toolkits that tell you how to ...

Jeffrey Brooks’ new book, The Firebird and the Fox, draws on an unsurpassed knowledge of Russian literature and culture of all levels, from the folk and popular to the canonical and avant-garde. It ...

In years gone by, the Reading festival menu could stand accused of being a teensy bit limited. Basically you could have any genre you wanted, as long as it was rock. Indie rock, punk rock, rap rock ...