Since 1990, one Montreal-based publisher has released some of the funniest, most poignant, most beautifully crafted comics in the world. They also have one of the best names in the business: Drawn & Quarterly.

Some tips if you're planning on rolling with a North Korean dictator: brush up on your Schwarzenegger movies, keep your eyes peeled for pranks and be prepared to fly to Beijing every now and then to pick up Big Macs.

Created in 1975, PUNK Magazine is an excellent time capsule of the vibrant energy and distinct attitude of the '70s scene in New York City.

Most up-and-coming authors would kill for a good blurb. A back-cover quote by a Pulitzer or PEN-winning author praising this "brave new voice" is the literary equivalent of having Jay Z guest on your album. Well, kind of.

It has been seven long Tobias-less years since the Bluth family was rudely yanked off TV screens. Which means it’s also been seven years that an Arrested Development reunion has been dangled in front of our faces.

If The Lifted Brow was a band, then we could look at its first 16 issues as a series of most excellent singles and EPs.

The tagline for new magazine Modern Farmer is "Farm. Food. Life." But that doesn't really tell the story. It's about farming like Mad Men is about advertising; it goes deeper, wider and weirder than its brief.

While director Harmony Korine's new feature film Spring Breakers is getting massive media attention, one of his lesser-known masterpieces is also being re-released.

The internet cops a lot of flack for destroying the publishing industry. It may be a fair charge on an economic level, but it doesn’t really add up on a literary one: the amount of writing available at our fingertips has never been greater.

The world’s classiest dog-dedicated blog sure knows how to buck the trend. Eschewing canine-care tips for philosophy and art, Four&Sons is the thinking dog’s literary companion.