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Books

Linda Spalding

December 6, 2012January 25, 2021 - by Stacey May Fowles

The Governor General’s Literary Awards interview series

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Books

Nigel Spencer

November 28, 2012April 6, 2014 - by Julien Russell Brunet

The Governor General’s Literary Awards interview series

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Illustration by Patrick Kyle
Books / January/February 2012

Lost Boy

January 12, 2012August 8, 2020 - by Emily Landau

With his parody of children’s books, Highly Inapproriate Tales for Young People, Douglas Coupland joins his Gen X peers, revelling in nostalgia. Isn’t it time to grow up?

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Illustration by Kate Beaton
Books / October 2011

Guess Who’s for Dinner

October 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Jeet Heer

The Cannibal Spirit joins a long tradition of flesh-eating literature set in Canada

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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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Photography by Vincent Skoglund
March 2011 / Memoir

The Archivist

March 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Paul Wilson

How I found Stieg Larsson’s inner sanctum

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Illustration by Michael Byers
Books / March 2011

The Life Raft

March 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Jeet Heer

Canada Reads is an essential way for publishers to sell books—but at what cost to literature?

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Books / October 2010

Exquisite Amusements

October 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by J. Robert Lennon

Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Atwood published her Big Book. What should we make of what she’s done since?

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Illustration by Neil Doshi
Arts & Culture / July/August 2010

The Long Decline

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by André Alexis

Canada used to have a vibrant critical culture. What happened?

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Books / March 2010

Melting Plots

March 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Nav Purewal

Two recent novels illuminate immigrants’ different experiences in English and French Canada

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