Why Alice Munro’s Biographer Left Her Daughter’s Abuse Out of His Book
An exclusive interview with Robert Thacker on the secret he carried for twenty years
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2024: The Year in Arts & Culture
Thoughtful essays and fascinating deep dives into everything from art forgeries to Joni Mitchell’s best work
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Are Millennials Ruining Divorce Too?
In a spate of new books, authors grapple with what separation means in the modern age
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Extermination
Even if you don’t see them or hear them, there are always others—somewhere in your home
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Memoirs Are Almost Impossible to Sell
Publishers are turning away from personal stories. Have readers stopped caring about each other’s lives?
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Forget Polite Verse – This Poet Wants You to Feel the Salt and Soil of Newfoundland
Mary Dalton’s fight to preserve her community’s speech
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IYKYK: When Novels Speak a Language Only Part of the Internet Gets
Every time the names of products or microcelebrities appear in a book, they prick us like a targeted ad
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Smokehouse
It was as if I’d swallowed the forest fire itself, all of it burning and alive inside of me
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Undoing the Fairy Tale of Alice Munro
For years, I helped spread a glowing narrative about one of Canada’s most famous authors
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What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway?
Writers and readers alike love to argue about the quotations in the opening pages of their favourite books
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