Papercut is a weekly newsletter written by Ryan David Allen and Andrew Sampson. Each Tuesday, you’ll receive a new issue straight to your inbox, featuring 4 capsule reviews of whatever we happen to be reading at the moment. Each review will be 500 words or less. No hyperbole, no gimmicks.

We each have our kinks, but aim to read widely. We’ll write about Canadian books because when a Canadian book drops it disappears without a trace, unless it has the good fortune to be dropped into the laps of critics in the Lower 48 or the small-batch cohort of Canadian authors and critics committed to the cause. We’ll write about old books so as not to let market forces dictate our course. We’ll digress, we’ll freewheel, and we’ll do so because Lionel Trilling said that since a book is always about something else, reviews too should be something else. 

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