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Charles Foran

Charles Foran teaches the contemporary Irish novel at the University of Toronto. His new book, Planet Lolita, comes out in May.
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Arts & Culture

Leonard Cohen’s Afterlife

November 14, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Charles Foran

A posthumous collection, finished days before his death, reveals the artist at his most intimate

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Man in front of trees
April 2014 / Feature

Revision Quest

April 17, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Charles Foran

Joseph Boyden set out to explore his First Nations roots. What he discovered has changed the national conversation

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Illustration by Roxanna Bikadoroff
Books / March 2013

End of Story

January 29, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Charles Foran

The heroic narrative of CanLit was already history. The closure of Douglas & McIntyre is merely punctuation

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Illustration by Raymond Biesinger
Books / June 2011

Supersized

June 12, 2011May 1, 2017 - by Charles Foran

How Mordecai Richler taught a generation of writers to think big

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April 2011 / First Person

Yesterday’s Canadian

April 12, 2011June 24, 2020 - by Charles Foran

Letting go of the French-English duality

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January/February 2010 / Television

Bloodletting

January 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Charles Foran

Vincent Lam’s miraculous book goes under the knife for television

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Photography by Christopher Wahl
Feature / September 2009

Alice in Borderland

September 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Charles Foran

A trip through Munro country, where the writer became herself

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Books / December 2008

The Last of the Wild Jews

December 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Charles Foran

Is it the end of an era for Jewish-American writing?

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Books / December 2008

Review: Entitlement

December 12, 2008July 5, 2017 - by Charles Foran

Brideshead Revisited and the Flyte to Canada

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Film / October 2007

The Adaptation of Mordecai Richler

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Charles Foran

More than thirty years after publication, St. Urbain’s Horseman finally hits the screen

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