On Hugh MacLennan’s Watch
Hugh MacLennan’s bestseller The Watch That Ends the Night turns fifty
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Canadian Primal
Five poet-thinkers redefine our relationship to nature
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Africa’s Latin Quarter
Despite bleak poverty, Mozambique’s multi-ethnic literary culture thrives
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The Walrus Reads
New books of note
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New books of note
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The Walrus Reads
New books of note
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The Ends of the Earth
The literature of two island outposts, Newfoundland and Tasmania, has captured the international imagination
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My Life with Tolstoy
Like the acting of Christopher Walken or the movies of Eric Rohmer, Tolstoy’s magnum opus is a magnet for foolish opinions
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Literary Landscapes: A Novel Approach
On the road with Noah Richler
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The New Word Order
hong kong—Imagine this seating chart for a dinner at a literary festival in Hong Kong. A Chinese-American novelist sits next to an English author of Indian extraction. To his right, …
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