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Books / December 2017

Will a Posthumous Story Collection Help Canada Forgive Norman Levine?

November 22, 2017April 2, 2020 - 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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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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Books

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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Arts & Culture

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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Poetry

Robyn Sarah’s Exquisitely Untrendy Poetry

October 31, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Anita Lahey

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

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Arts & Culture

Eight Questions for This Year’s Winner of the Man Booker Prize

October 19, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Stephen Smith

George Saunders discusses writing, Donald Trump, and ass-kickery

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Books

The Wild Rise of CanLit

October 12, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Paul Barrett

Nick Mount’s Arrival brings Canada’s 1960s literary stars to life—but overlooks the era’s diversity

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Books

The Case for Reading Quebec’s Most Reclusive Author

October 5, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Dimitri Nasrallah

Réjean Ducharme was brilliant, influential, and mostly invisible to English Canada

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Television

What Makes Alias Grace so Good

September 29, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Courtney Jane Walker

As a TV writer, I learned strong protagonists drive action. But the latest adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s feminist classic subverts all of that

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Books

How Claire Messud Learned to Talk Like a Teenage Girl

September 26, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Anna Fitzpatrick

The author’s new novel gives readers a glimpse into the complicated lives of young women

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