Sarah Bernstein Wins Canada’s $100K Giller Prize

In a statement, the jury said: “The modernist experiment continues to burn incandescently in Sarah Bernstein’s slim novel, Study for Obedience. Bernstein asks the indelible question: what does a culture of subjugation, erasure and dismissal of women produce? –...

So How Much Fiction Is OK For Stand-Up Comics?

One comedian says that comedians exaggerate for laughs all of the time, but “what Minhaj did was different … because he altered the story to coax an emotional response from the audience, not to make them laugh.” – CBC