Giller Prize nominee Kim Thúy on the fragility and power of books
Plus, an excerpt from the author’s semi-autobiographical novel, which details a harrowing journey from Vietnam to Canada
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Giller Prize nominee Will Ferguson on his Elizabethan swindle, remade
An Internet scam with a 500-year history led the author on an unexpected voyage to the Niger Delta
Building stories with graphic novelist Chris Ware
On the difference between comics and drawing, how having a child changes everything and why books are definitely not dead
In conversation with Canadian punk chronicler Sam Sutherland
On his new book, ’Perfect Youth’ and the music that changed our cultural identity
Fall reading: Our latest book reviews, plus the Maclean’s bestsellers list
New fiction from Emma Donoghue, plus Brian D. Johnson reviews a new biography of Mick Jagger
REVIEW: There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Book by Chinua Achebe
REVIEW: The Cocktail Waitress
Book by James M. Cain
REVIEW: Time Warped
By Claudia Hammond
REVIEW: Mick Jagger
By Philip Norman