Ease yourself into the rabbit hole, with Douglas Coupland and the slacker generation

Whether living as a caveman in a theme park or writing self-help copy for rice cracker packets, literature has many memorably awful occupations

Ten years ago the novelist created slogans that captured the isolated nature of contemporary life. But when Covid-19 hit, his artworks began to feel eerily prescient

From experiments in light deprivation to ‘unfitness monitors’, works by Douglas Coupland and others in this urgent exhibition resist the 24/7 demands of late capitalism

As a relatively young global city, Vancouver can play up to its brash, breezy image. But some of its most celebrated books are rooted in harder times, as it struggled to find its place in the world, and to deal with racial tensions. Tyler Stiem takes a closer look

The author of Generation X on his short-lived career as a restaurant reviewer, his strangest ever meal and why he loves the writing on TripAdvisor. Interview by Tim Adams

The former REM frontman on Douglas Coupland’s 9/11-inspired artwork and the images that still haunt the US

Peter Conrad enjoys a clever compilation of imagined interviews with the dead by living writers

If this critique of mass culture is satirical, it hides it well, writes Lucy Ellmann

John Harris on an ambitious assessment of the age of 'Blajorism'