Lawrence Hill on the power of blood
An exclusive excerpt from this year’s Massey Lectures by the author of ’The Book of Negroes’
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Brian Bethune
Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
Joseph Boyden explains why readers must wait for the end of his trilogy
’It seemed like the right time for a story I grew up in,’ the novelist says of the book he wrote instead. (Click here for an excerpt)
The curse of small families
Baby Boomers may soon find they have no one to look after them. Brian Bethune reports on the next generational crisis
Margaret Atwood on plague, comic end times and human nature
Canada’s most famous novelist in conversation
The secret to success at school
Why kids need academic rigour the way they need play and water and food
Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
How the saga of Clary Fray pushes more boundaries than its girl-powered predecessors
‘We Sit At Our Computers And Cry’
Lars Kepler’s formula is quite coherent, given the fiction star is two writers, not one
Pope Francis: The Vatican’s rebel
For those invested in the status quo, he’s the most dangerously unpredictable pope in centuries
Margaret Atwood Inc.
A subtle examination of the business of being the queen of CanLit
Geology professor Salomon Kroonenberg explains ’Why Hell Stinks Of Sulfur’
Why Hell Stinks Of Sulfur: Mythology And Geology Of The Underworld by Salomon Kroonenberg A retired professor of geology at the...