Does each reader create a different book?

Does each reader create a different book?

Quite simply, I loved this book, which I came across while scrolling through the Coach House catalogue. Dominique Fortier has written a quiet novel, intelligent and multi-layered, its style, paradoxically, both spare and sensuous. She won the Governor General’s Award...
Remembrance

Remembrance

Imre Kertész, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002, chose first person for his semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel Fatelessness, published in 1975 as Fateless. In 1944, aged fourteen, he was one of the 440,000 Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz, where...
What Can Art Do? What Can Art Not Do?

What Can Art Do? What Can Art Not Do?

What can art do? And what can it not do? Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone asks both these questions, with an added dimension – can we make art when loneliness, to the point of extreme isolation, is the spur? Laing is a British...