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Arts & Culture

The Toughest Sentence Toni Morrison Ever Wrote

August 9, 2019August 14, 2019 - by Donna Bailey Nurse

I interviewed the author in 1998. I could have listened to her forever

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Language

The Power of a Good Sentence

July 13, 2019July 17, 2019 - by Douglas Glover

Why writing one isn’t as easy as you think

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Photograph of a Woman Looking at a Leonard Cohen Themed Magazine Spread
Arts & Culture

The Darker Side of Leonard Cohen

April 9, 2018August 13, 2019 - by Myra Bloom

How the myth of the male genius shields our cultural heroes from scrutiny

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Photograph courtesy Vancouver Public Central Library
Arts & Culture / Web Exclusives

The Case Against Reading Everything

December 13, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Jason Guriel

Writing instructors preach exposure to different voices and styles. They are wrong

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Courtesy of Vehicule Press / Danielle Schaub
Books / Web Exclusives

The Modesty and Mastery of Don Coles

December 6, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Richard Sanger

He taught a generation of young writers that poems take work and patience

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Illustration by Shawn Kuruneru
Books / December 2017

Will a Posthumous Story Collection Help Canada Forgive Norman Levine?

November 22, 2017November 27, 2019 - by André Forget

After his unsparing portrait of the country in his 1950s travelogue, he was shunned by the literary elite

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Photograph by Terence Byrnes
December 2017 / Language

How One Translator Brought Quebec’s Greatest Authors to English Canada

November 21, 2017December 3, 2019 - by Derek Webster

For Sheila Fischman, translation represents the hope that our country’s fractured identity can be healed by understanding how others see the world

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Photo courtesy Doubleday Canada / The Walrus
Books / Web Exclusives

Michael Redhill’s New Novel Leaves Readers Seeing Double

November 20, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Emily Donaldson

The Toronto author’s Giller-winning book is a philosophical thriller on identity

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Photo by Marion Ettlinger/Corbis via Getty Images
Arts & Culture / Web Exclusives

New Plagiarism Accusations Against Bestselling Author Jill Bialosky

November 10, 2017November 27, 2019 - by William Logan

An exclusive look at allegations against the executive editor and vice-president of New York publishing firm W.W. Norton

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Illustration by Karen Klassen
Poetry / Web Exclusives

Robyn Sarah’s Exquisitely Untrendy Poetry

October 31, 2017November 22, 2017 - by Anita Lahey

The Montreal poet’s timeless world of leaves, rain, snow, wind, sidewalks and shadows

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