The Toughest Sentence Toni Morrison Ever Wrote
I interviewed the author in 1998. I could have listened to her forever
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The Power of a Good Sentence
Why writing one isn’t as easy as you think
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The Darker Side of Leonard Cohen
How the myth of the male genius shields our cultural heroes from scrutiny
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The Case Against Reading Everything
Writing instructors preach exposure to different voices and styles. They are wrong
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The Modesty and Mastery of Don Coles
He taught a generation of young writers that poems take work and patience
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Will a Posthumous Story Collection Help Canada Forgive Norman Levine?
After his unsparing portrait of the country in his 1950s travelogue, he was shunned by the literary elite
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How One Translator Brought Quebec’s Greatest Authors to English Canada
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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Michael Redhill’s New Novel Leaves Readers Seeing Double
The Toronto author’s Giller-winning book is a philosophical thriller on identity
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New Plagiarism Accusations Against Bestselling Author Jill Bialosky
An exclusive look at allegations against the executive editor and vice-president of New York publishing firm W.W. Norton
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Robyn Sarah’s Exquisitely Untrendy Poetry
The Montreal poet’s timeless world of leaves, rain, snow, wind, sidewalks and shadows
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