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July 29, 2010

The fame monsters
Novelist Carl Hiaasen takes a satirical swipe at celebrity culture
By Jason Anderson

August 3, 2010

Driven to distraction
Novelist Gary Shteyngart satirizes our diminishing attention spans
By Mike Doherty

July 29, 2010

David Mitchell
British novelist David Mitchell explains his latest epic, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
By Lee Ferguson

July 13, 2010

Harvey Pekar
The clumsy charm of the comics legend
By Guy Leshinski

June 3, 2010

One Take: Yann Martel [VIDEO]
Novelist talks about religion, Stephen Harper and Holocaust literature
By CBC News

May 28, 2010

Scott Turow
Thriller author talks about his follow-up to Presumed Innocent
By Sarah Liss

May 27, 2010

The killer Inside Me
Why this 1952 novel still haunts pop culture
By Lee Ferguson

May 26, 2010

Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
First-time novelist delves into Toronto's criminal underground
By Rachel Giese

May 25, 2010

Debut Dagger
The U.K. competition detects Canadian crime-writing talent
By Rosemary McCracken

May 21, 2010

Stieg Larsson
The author's Millennium Trilogy offers a disturbing view of womanhood
By Barbara Carey

May 14, 2010

Martin Amis
The novelist explores the sexual revolution in The Pregnant Widow
By Flannery Dean

April 22, 2010

Oprah Winfrey
Biographer Kitty Kelley talks about her controversial book on the talk-show host
By Sarah Liss

April 19, 2010

Philip Pullman
Author subverts the story of Jesus Christ in his controversial new novel
By Rachel Giese

April 12, 2010

Joshua Ferris
A lawyer fights an unknown sickness in the author's brave new novel
By Lee Ferguson

April 7, 2010

Yann Martel
Novelist talks about his new Holocaust parable, Beatrice & Virgil
By Lee Ferguson

March 30, 2010

Drew Hayden Taylor
Novelist subverts native legend in Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
By Rachel Giese

March 18, 2010

Secrets and spies
A new documentary explores the life of reclusive novelist John le Carré
By Patricia Bailey

March 8, 2010

One Take: Jeff Rubin
The author and economist talks about muskee fishing and his socialist past
By CBC News

February 12, 2010

Patti Smith
Her new memoir casts a light on her life, her legacy and her greatest love
By Lee Ferguson

January 29, 2010

J.D. Salinger
He did the unthinkable - he refused to play the fame game
By Martin Morrow

January 21, 2010

Canadian novelist Paul Quarrington dies
Toronto comic writer authored Whale Music, King Leary
By CBC News

January 15, 2010

P.K. Page
Rosemary Sullivan remembers her friend and mentor
By Rosemary Sullivan

January 15, 2010

CBC Archives
A 1983 interview with the late poet P.K. Page
By CBC Archives

January 7, 2010

VIDEO: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Dr. Vincent Lam talks about adapting his Giller-winning book for TV
By Martin Morrow

January 4, 2010

Kanata
New novel looks at the making of our nation
By Susan Noakes

December 23, 2009

The year in books
The 10 biggest publishing stories of 2009
By Lee Ferguson

December 3, 2009

Big city dreams
Chronic City is novelist Jonathan Lethem's trippy ode to Manhattan
By Lee Ferguson

November 17, 2009

Google Books project
The biggest change in publishing since the invention of the printing press
By Sean Prpick

November 4, 2009

Reading the signs
The biggest publishing phenomena of the decade
By Lee Ferguson

October 23, 2009

Anne of Green Gables
New, posthumous book takes a dark turn
By CBC News

October 23, 2009

She owns the night
Lisa Foad is a dark and daring new voice on Canada's literary scene
By Lee Ferguson

October 21, 2009

The measure of a man
Novelist Michael Chabon puts his own life on the page in new book of essays
By Sarah Liss

October 9, 2009

Criminal mind
Blood's a Rover is the last chapter in James Ellroy's trilogy about the American underworld
By Martin Morrow

September 28, 2009

On the download
Nick Hornby explores internet music fandom in his new novel, Juliet, Naked
By Greig Dymond

September 27, 2009

Here comes the flood
Margaret Atwood is our finest chronicler of Armageddon
By Heather Mallick

September 27, 2009

A woman divided
Author Lori Lansens embodies an obese woman in The Wife's Tale
By Sarah Liss

September 17, 2009

Dan Brown and me
My day spent reading the sequel to the Da Vinci Code
By Sarah Liss

August 24, 2009

Whale of a tale
Novelist Michael Crummey explores Newfoundland's wacky folklore
By Lee Ferguson

August 12, 2009

Little black books
Why are so many literary authors turning to noir mysteries?
By Mike Doherty

August 12, 2009

Funny business
Canadian writer Terry Griggs offers a clever spoof of noir conventions
By Lee Ferguson

August 10, 2009

Dark days
Philip Kerr turns the Nazi era into riveting, morally complicated fiction
By Andre Mayer

August 7, 2009

Wise guy
Elmore Leonard discusses his new novel, Road Dogs, and his lust for Hollywood
By Martin Morrow

July 29, 2009

The final chapter
An interview with Michael Jackson biographer Ian Halperin
By Lee Ferguson

July 8, 2009

Enlighten us
Can we really trust Aravind Adiga's version of modern India?
By Richard Poplak

July 6, 2009

Kitchen confidential
Brit author Monica Ali dishes on her new novel, In the Kitchen
By Sarah Liss

July 2, 2009

Literary devices
Could the next great novel be written on a cell phone?
By Justine Purcell

June 15, 2009

The luck of the Irish
Author Colm Toibin talks about his immigrant novel, Brooklyn
By Lee Ferguson

June 1, 2009

Sly-fi
Robert Charles Wilson's new SF novel wears a historical disguise
By Kevin Chong

May 19, 2009

The pen is mighty
We pick Canada's 10 best English-language poets
By Barbara Carey

May 13, 2009

Fit to print
Will the Espresso book machine revolutionize the publishing industry?
By Mike Doherty

May 7, 2009

Food for thought
Jamie Oliver answers your questions
By CBC News

April 30, 2009

A wise guy, eh?
A new book remembers humourist Stephen Leacock
By Greig Dymond

April 27, 2009

LIVE CHAT [replay]
Richard Poplak talks about U.S. pop culture in the Middle East
By CBC News

April 17, 2009

I. Am. Canadian
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff discusses his new memoir, True Patriot Love
By Donna Bailey Nurse

April 20, 2009

The dark dreamer
Remembering British novelist J.G. Ballard
By Mike Doherty

April 8, 2009

Thinking globally
Chris Cleave's novel Little Bee imagines the life of a Nigerian asylum seeker
By Sarah Liss

March 24, 2009

The wild bunch
Novelist Elizabeth Kelly talks about her rollicking family drama, Apologize, Apologize!
By Greg Buium

March 20, 2009

Continental divide
What’s with all these filthy European novels?
By Lee Ferguson

March 12, 2009

Hatchet man
We have words with novelist and controversial book critic Dale Peck
By Flannery Dean

February 27, 2009

Love for sale
Harlequin romance: still feeling randy 60 years later
By Alison Gillmor

January 28, 2009

Remembering Rabbit
A tribute to John Updike’s fertile prose and generous spirit
By Mike Doherty

December 28, 2008

2008: Books
Looking back at the year in publishing
By Lee Ferguson

December 3, 2008

Dearly Beloved
What the novels of Toni Morrison mean to me
By Donna Bailey Nurse

November 13, 2008

Verse chorus
A close look at the finalists for the 2008 Governor General's Award for poetry
By Barbara Carey

November 12, 2008

The devil Junot
Talking trash with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz
By Sarah Liss

November 11, 2008

Living large
Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell dishes on her latest novel, One Fifth Avenue
By Rachel Giese

November 7, 2008

Man on the street
Crime novelist Richard Price documents the new New York
By Jason Anderson

October 29, 2008

Spirit of '74
David Bergen explains the forces behind his gripping new novel, The Retreat
By Martin Morrow

October 24, 2008

Birth of a nation
Historian Ronald Wright tries to answer the question: What is America?
By Andre Mayer

October 21, 2008

Accidents can happen
The story behind Marina Endicott's Giller-nominated novel, Good to a Fault
By Martin Morrow

October 17, 2008

Literary diversions
With her new tome on debt analysis, Margaret Atwood is the latest novelist to switch from fiction to fact
By Greg Buium

October 15, 2008

Stunt woman
Toronto writer Claudia Dey's city of the surreal
By Sarah Liss

October 7, 2008

Avenging angel
Irvine Welsh's latest gritty tale offers something novel: redemption
By John Keillor

September 29, 2008

What's their story?
On the couch with literary couple Joseph and Amanda Boyden
By Donna Bailey Nurse

September 22, 2008

Murder, she wrote
Legendary author P.D. James discusses the art of the crime novel
By Rachel Giese

September 15, 2008

The sad jester
An appreciation of novelist David Foster Wallace
By Jason McBride

September 9, 2008

Road worrier
Winnipeg writer Miriam Toews's driving family saga
By Alison Gillmor

September 4, 2008

Wife and times
Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld imagines the life of America's First Lady
By Sarah Liss

September 2, 2008

Fight club
Vancouver's Lee Henderson wrestles with history in his new novel The Man Game
By Greg Buium

August 25, 2008

A bug's life
Montreal author Rawi Hage explains his menacing new novel, Cockroach
By Kevin Chong

August 18, 2008

Lo and behold
The Lolita effect, 50 years after the book's North American debut
By Matthew McKinnon

August 11, 2008

Beast of burden
Andrew Davidson explains the history and the hype behind his spooky debut novel, The Gargoyle
By Alison Gillmor

August 8, 2008

Use your delusion
Are drug memoirs addicted to fiction?
By Jason McBride

July 29, 2008

Beyond the pale
Books about white people both mock and reinforce stereotypes
By Denise Balkissoon

July 16, 2008

Pants on fire
Humourist David Sedaris opens up about his surreal life
By Hannah Sung

July 9, 2008

Making it work
Meg Wolitzer's novel The Ten-Year Nap explores the lives of New York stay-at-home moms
By Rachel Giese

June 23, 2008

More than words
The Calabash festival is a slice of literary paradise
By Donna Bailey Nurse

June 20, 2008

The last days of Zia
Mohammed Hanif's debut novel probes the mysterious death of Pakistani dictator Zia ul-Haq
By Aparita Bhandari

June 18, 2008

Think again
Salman Rushdie discusses his thought-provoking novels
By Andre Mayer

May 23, 2008

Thinking Big thoughts
Toronto author releases satirical third memoir of Bigfoot
By Hannah Sung

May 20, 2008

What are the odds
No Canadians but still plenty of drama in Best of the Booker contest
By Flannery Dean

May 8, 2008

Mad refuge
André Alexis's new novel Asylum finds sex and scandal in 1980s Ottawa
By Rachel Giese

May 5, 2008

The mouth that roars
British author Martin Amis defends his new book on 9/11
By Andre Mayer

April 22, 2008

Music for a broken city
The Cellist of Sarajevo is a novel-length lament of war
By Gillian Grace

April 21, 2008

Past imperfect
Author Margaret MacMillan on abusing historical facts
By Georgie Binks

April 16, 2008

The nature of the beast
The strange success of the Chinese novel Wolf Totem
By Nicole Pasulka

April 12, 2008

The world is their oyster
The culinary odyssey of Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
By Shaun Smith

April 11, 2008

Stanza and deliver
A round-up of the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists
By Barbara Carey

April 10, 2008

Kid wonder
Writing lessons with beloved YA author Gordon Korman
By Pasha Malla

April 2, 2008

The last detail
Nicholson Baker's passion for minutiae delights and provokes
By Jason McBride

March 26, 2008

Hot Chip
Chip Kidd: book designer, novelist, Renaissance man
By Andre Mayer

March 13, 2008

Born to be wild
Is it possible to write a good rock 'n' roll novel?
By Kevin Chong

February 26, 2008

Eternal youth
Novelist Meg Rosoff explores her inner child
By Rachel Giese

February 21, 2008

Finding the right words
Canadian author Sandra Gulland uses book clubs to tweak her novels
By Pasha Malla

January 8, 2008

The book of love
A new literary collection revives the art of the love letter
By Jakob von Baeyer

December 19, 2007

Jumping off the page
2007: The year in books
By Rachel Giese

December 3, 2007

Dare to be dull
Living by the code of The Daring Book for Girls
By Lauren Mechling

November 28, 2007

Crazy for Alice
Why is Alice Munro so big with European shrinks?
By Megan Williams

November 26, 2007

Sound effects
Oliver Sacks probes music's mysterious influence on the brain
By Rachel Giese

November 20, 2007

Art in exile
A conversation with Chilean author Isabel Allende
By Rachel Giese

November 11, 2007

Alpha Mailer
The death of literary titan Norman Mailer
By Andre Mayer

November 7, 2007

The write stuff
An interview with Giller Prize winner Elizabeth Hay
By Rachel Giese

November 6, 2007

Legends of the fall
A cheat sheet on this year's Canadian book award finalists
By Rachel Giese

October 30, 2007

Faking it
Author Pierre Bayard talks knowingly about books he hasn't read
By Lauren Mechling

October 29, 2007

Lessons from the fall
Author Tom Perrotta tackles sexual mores in The Abstinence Teacher
By Rachel Giese

October 23, 2007

Great Scot
Author Ian Rankin talks about the end of his best-selling detective series
By Andre Mayer

October 18, 2007

War of words
A closer look at this year's finalists for the Governor General’s Award for poetry
By Barbara Carey

October 10, 2007

The autumn of life
CanLit icon Richard B. Wright talks about his timely new novel
By Rachel Giese

October 9, 2007

Film school
How author David Gilmour used movies to reach his teenage son
By Martin Morrow

October 2, 2007

Present tense
In Spook Country, cyberpunk legend William Gibson finds reality stranger than fiction
By Rachel Giese

August 30, 2007

Teen scream
Twilight series offers young people a twist on vampire fiction
By Lauren Mechling

August 30, 2007

Winter's tale
Novelist Michael Winter's mid-life lessons
By Rachel Giese

August 10, 2007

Blume's day
Essays reflect on teen author Judy Blume
By Katrina Onstad

July 31, 2007

Money talks
The story behind Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy
By Andre Mayer

July 22, 2007

So long, Harry
J.K. Rowling delivers a satisfying end to Potter series
By Rachel Giese

July 19, 2007

Harry and me
A personal reflection on reading the Harry Potter series
By Rachel Giese

July 18, 2007

Wild about Harry
Taking a look at Harry Potter's insatiable fans
By Martin Morrow and Timothy Neesam

June 25, 2007

The long tale
Writer Armistead Maupin reunites his fictional family
By Lauren Mechling

June 19, 2007

Inner conflict
Sherman Alexie's soul-searching new novel
By Rachel Giese

May 28, 2007

Life after Harry
What the final Harry Potter novel means for Vancouver's Raincoast Books
By Greg Buium

May 24, 2007

Novel approach
Tish Cohen hits Hollywood big time with literary debut
By Rachel Giese

May 16, 2007

Changed man
Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist explores post-9/11 tension
By Aparita Bhandari

May 14, 2007

Nothing sacred
Journalist and provocateur Christopher Hitchens picks a fight with God
By Andre Mayer

May 9, 2007

Girl talk
A love letter to Sassy, the late, great magazine for teenage girls
By Alison Gillmor

April 24, 2007

Pym and proper
Fans of British novelist Barbara Pym are as quirky as her books
By Lauren Mechling

April 23, 2007

Bewitching Ondaatje
Author works his magic again with new novel
By Rachel Giese

April 13, 2007

Great white hype
The shrewd marketing campaign behind The Raw Shark Texts
By Rachel Giese

April 11, 2007

Home cooking
Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon talk about The 100-Mile Diet
By Rachel Giese

April 5, 2007

Lines of beauty
The lowdown on this year's Griffin Poetry Prize nominees
By Barbara Carey

March 12, 2007

Lost and found
Barbara Gowdy talks about Helpless, her new novel about a child abduction
By Rachel Giese

February 15, 2007

Book of exodus
Lawrence Hill discusses his eye-opening epic, The Book of Negroes
By Rachel Giese

February 13, 2007

Trigger happy
Two hip-hop journalists investigate gun culture in a new book
By Matthew McKinnon

February 1, 2007

Cold comfort
Vendela Vida's polar expedition
By Rachel Giese

January 31, 2007

Brother grim
Martin Amis takes a fictional glance at Soviet Russia
By Andre Mayer

December 13, 2006

Turning the page
2006: The year in books
By Andre Mayer

December 1, 2006

Map Quest
Four new atlases paint a strange, often hilarious portrait of Canada
By Shaun Smith

November 20, 2006

Fit to print?
A conversation with the Canadian distributor of O.J. Simpson’s new memoir
By Rachel Giese
The Constant Reader
Alberto Manguel investigates the meaning of libraries
By Barbara Carey

November 9, 2006

World Beater
Nell Freudenberger’s The Dissident is a study of cultural insensitivity
By Andre Mayer
Self Portrait
British satirist Will Self conjures up another lethal twist on London
By Mike Doherty

November 7, 2006

Eyes on the Prize
Breaking down this year's Giller Prize nominees
By Rachel Giese

November 1, 2006

A passage from India
An interview with Booker winner Kiran Desai
By Rachel Giese

October 25, 2006

The Untold Story
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delves into Nigeria's civil war
By Rachel Giese

October 17, 2006

Style and Substance
Gauging the nominees for the 2006 Governor General's poetry prize
By Barbara Carey

October 11, 2006

Rise and Shine
Robert J. Wiersema's Before I Wake is CanLit's unlikely hit of the fall season
By Rachel Giese

October 3, 2006

The Great Unknowns
CBC Arts Online analyzes the literary dash for the Giller cash
By Rachel Giese

October 3, 2006

Literary Kicks
Inside the 2006 World Cup of Writers
By Craig Taylor

October 2, 2006

Modest Muse
Author J.G. Ballard's influence on modern music
By Mike Doherty

September 20, 2006

Brand New Heavy
Phaidon Design Classics provides an enormous, ambitious catalogue of industrial products from the past three centuries
By Richard Poplak

September 8, 2006

Drawing Out the Truth
The 9/11 commission report gets a graphic makeover
By Andre Mayer

September 7, 2006

The War at Home
Ken Kalfus pens the first satirical 9/11 novel
By Rachel Giese

August 29, 2006

Learning from History
Novelist Anita Rau Badami grapples with the Air India bombing
By Andre Mayer

July 6, 2006

Short and Bittersweet
Sandra Sabatini: short-story champion
By Andrea Curtis

June 5, 2006

Write of Passage
Madeleine Thien's quest for Certainty
By Alec Scott

May 25, 2006

Cult Figure
Telling the story of Madame Zee
By Andrea Curtis

May 25, 2006

Tuned Out
Panic in American TV land
By Stephen Cole

May 18, 2006

Mischievously Yours
Daniel Handler and his Adverbs
By Andre Mayer

May 10, 2006

Small World
Books offer history in a nutshell
By Alec Scott

May 8, 2006

A Recipe for Living
Caitlin Flanagan and her inner housewife
By Alison Gillmor

May 3, 2006

"This Book Will Change Your Life"
The reckless art of book blurbing
By Andre Mayer

April 27, 2006

About a Boy
David Mitchell on the perils of growing up
By Rachel Giese

April 11, 2006

Bonnie and Pride
Life fulfilment with Bonnie Fuller
By Rachel Giese

April 10, 2006

Novel Ambitions
A short list of politicians who write
By Alec Scott

April 7, 2006

Prize Fighters
Sizing up the Griffin Poetry Prize finalists
By Barbara Carey

April 6, 2006

Brother's Keeper
Ken Dornstein memorializes his brother in The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
By Alec Scott

March 30, 2006

India Ink
Anosh Irani's Bombay dreams
By Rachel Giese

March 27, 2006

Dorm Watch
Mean Boy and the tradition of the academic satire
By Andre Mayer

March 17, 2006

When Irish Eyes Saw TV
John Doyle's A Great Feast of Light
By Greg Kelly

March 15, 2006

His Ames True
Literary quipster Jonathan Ames
By Andre Mayer

March 14, 2006

Sharing the Love
Adult fiction aimed at teens
By Andre Mayer

February 23, 2006

Bad Apple
Jay McInerney and the new New York
By Alec Scott

February 20, 2006

Birth of a Novel
Ami McKay and the midwives of Nova Scotia
By Andrea Curtis

January 26, 2006

Merchant of Menace
Eden Robinson gets into Blood Sports
By Rachel Giese

January 12, 2006

Writing Wrongs
A history of literary hoaxes
By Rachel Giese

January 11, 2006

Stop, Thieves
Searching for Iraq's stolen antiquities
By Joshua Knelman

January 10, 2006

Code Tread
A walk through Da Vinci's London
By Craig Taylor

January 5, 2006

Firebrand
Irving Layton, 1912-2006
By Stephen Marche

December 20, 2005

Is Fiction Dead?
2005: The year in books
By Rachel Giese

December 6, 2005

Fly Boy
Kenneth Oppel's high-altitude thrills
By Rachel Giese

November 16, 2005

Role Call
An homage to character actors
By Matthew McKinnon

November 8, 2005

Thriller at the Gillers
The horse race hits the home stretch
By Rachel Giese

November 7, 2005

Tale Gator
A chat with Giller nominee Lisa Moore
By Andre Mayer

November 2, 2005

Fellow Travellers
B.C. writers group makes waves
By Greg Buium

November 1, 2005

Girl Guide
Lori Lansens illuminates The Girls, her novel about conjoined twins
By Rachel Giese

October 25, 2005

Verse Case Scenario
Assessing the GG Poetry Nominees
By Barbara Carey

October 24, 2005

Comfort Zone
A conversation with David Rakoff
By Matthew McKinnon

October 18, 2005

Page Turners
Toronto lit-fest kicks off
By Andre Mayer

October 17, 2005

Bookmaker's Odds
How to win a CanLit Award
By Rachel Giese

July 20, 2005

What Went Wrong?
Writing on failed friendships
By Andrea Curtis

July 18, 2005

Special Ed
A new look at Chester Brown's influential comic Ed the Happy Clown
By Brad Mackay

July 11, 2005

No Muggles Allowed
Test your knowledge of Pottermania
By Kevin J. Siu

June 27, 2005

Vox Populi
Umberto Eco's new book explores the merits of mass entertainment
By Andre Mayer

June 8, 2005

Rugged Individual
John Vaillant’s great Canadian adventure tale
By Andrea Curtis

June 7, 2005

Back to Futures Past
The new Canadian sci-fi tradition
By Peter Darbyshire

June 6, 2005

Lost Coz
A new book charts the fall of Bill Cosby
By Lawrence Hill

May 18, 2005

Cruel Britannia
Novelist Jonathan Coe explores Blair's England
By Andre Mayer

May 16, 2005

Stuck on Youth
The new world of teen fiction
By Lauren Mechling

May 9, 2005

Alternative Canadian Walk of Fame
Inductee: Iron Man
By Brad Mackay

May 4, 2005

Brain Candy
A conversation with author Steven Johnson
By Christopher Shulgan

April 22, 2005

Send in the Clones
Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, Never Let Me Go
By Katrina Onstad

April 14, 2005

Automated Storyteller
The curse of the prolific author
By Andre Mayer

April 11, 2005

Rhyme and Reason
Camille Paglia on the world’s best poetry
By Liz Hodgson

April 6, 2005

No Ordinary Day
Ian McEwan and the 9/11 novel
By Andre Mayer

April 1, 2005

Girl Trouble
Fear and self-loathing in chick lit
By Katrina Onstad

March 28, 2005

The Nature of Envy
Sheila Heti’s new novel, Ticknor
By Andrea Curtis

March 14, 2005

Iceland Journal
Cartoonist David Collier reports from Reykjavik
by David Collier

March 11, 2005

Storied Franchise
Is UBC CanLit's farm team?
By Greg Buium

February 14, 2005

Bedrooms of the Nation
Stephen Marche's racy debut proves that sex in CanLit is rarely just about pleasure
By Peter Darbyshire

February 3, 2005

Hey Kids! No Comics!
How the comic book almost disappeared
By Brad Mackay

February 3, 2005

Rueing the Consequences
Book Review: George Elliott Clarke's George & Rue
By Lawrence Hill

February 2, 2005

Dead Presidents
Brad Smith's new novel lampoons Civil War fanatics
By Andre Mayer

January 14, 2005

Book Club Virgin (And Proud Of It)
The scorn of the solitary reader
By Li Robbins

January 6, 2005

All The Lonely People
Douglas Coupland unveils his latest novel, Eleanor Rigby
By Katrina Onstad

January 4, 2005

2004: The Year in Canadian Books
By Andre Mayer

January 4, 2005

2004: The Year in International Books
By Andre Mayer