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A new year means a brand new slate. Like the promise of a new year, the self-help industry is based on high expectations. No wonder there’s a slew of new self-help books to help us usher in 2011.
John Lavery’s book Sandra Beck is a novel in two novellas about a grief-struck Montreal family, told in very different styles – one experimental, the other more conventional.
In all, 54 Canadians receive the country's highest civilian honour.
Blue Met festival founder Linda Leith, who steps down at the end of the year, looks back at the festival's birth and growth
For four decades now, G.B. Trudeau’s Pulitzer Prize-winning daily comic strip has chronicled American society, politics and culture with a braveness, intelligence and clarity of vision that is without peer in the comics pages.
Less than a week left to shop for Christmas gifts, but relax. Just head for the nearest bookstore; you can find gifts there for all ages, all interests. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
Giving a biography is like introducing a friend to someone you’d like her to meet. Here are some choices for a variety of tastes.
When it’s done right, graphic literature combines the best qualities of books and film to produce a reading experience of unique immediacy. Here are some of 2010’s best titles, suitable for adepts and newcomers alike.
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Word of the year losing its meaning
Is it time to abandon the whole concept of Words of the Year? It seemed a great idea back in 1990, when the American Dialect Society first singled out an expression that had lately sprung into prominence. The Americans were emulating the Gesellschaft fur deutsche Sprache, which has chosen a new German word since the early '70s. Lots of people, myself included, saw the word of the year as a way to define and celebrate the creativity that language change can bring.
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Bush rich source of malapropisms
Last week I was one of four writers sitting at a table in an upscale Chinese restaurant. We were talking about the stories of Anton Chekhov, our chopsticks nudging our paperbacks. A middle-aged woman at the next table finished a conversation on her cellphone and leaned our way. "I don't mean to intercede," she said, "but are you a book club or something?"
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Edie Austin
Shortlist announced for B.C. national non-fiction award
Charles Foran's biography of Mordecai Richler (Mordecai: The Life & Times) is among four...
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B.C. National Award for Non-Fiction announces longlist
The longlist for the B.C. National Award for Non-Fiction was announced today (Nov. 17). Winner...
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How many have you read? IMPAC Dublin long list includes 15 Canadians including Margaret Atwood, Linden MacIntyre and Lisa Moore
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For Kids: Welcoming a new baby
On the eve of a brand-new year, what better than a book about a brand-new addition to the family?
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For Kids: GG winners
A novel written in poetry form is not groundbreaking news in children's literature: U.S. author Sharon Creech did it almost 10 years ago with Love That Dog (and its 2008 sequel, Hate That Cat). But it's enough of an out-of-the-norm approach that one can understand why Fishtailing, by B.C. author Wendy Phillips, caught the eye of this year's jury for the Governor General's Literary Award.
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Lusophile trains spotlight on people who tend to sail under the radar
In Making Waves, Mary Soderstrom's latest book, the Portuguese are packed like sardines into 171 pages.
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For Kids: Last-minute gift ideas
Less than a week left to shop for Christmas gifts, but relax. Just head for the nearest bookstore; you can find gifts there for all ages, all interests. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
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Mantle’s demons nearly as legendary as his baseball ability
The greatest Greek tragedists couldn’t have invented the tale of New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle, a story that began with so much promise, seemed so golden from the outside, yet was lived and ended in such sadness.
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