How to find meaning in the futility of existence
The members of a monthly meet-up in New Orleans look to Sartre and John Cheever to get beyond life’s ultimate futility
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How CanLit was born
Brave publishers, great books and Canada’s newfound affluence combined to set the scene for the CanLit explosion of the late ’60s
Trump’s Final Chapter: ’The Butterfly Effect,’ by Kathryn Walsh Kuitenbrouwer
The author of ’All The Broken Things’ writes a short story on the fictional final chapter of the Donald Trump presidency
Trump’s Final Chapter: ’The Art of the Memoir,’ by William Deverell
The creator of the Arthur Beauchamp series writes a short story imagining the end of the Trump presidency
Trump’s Final Chapter: ’The Final Days,’ by Terry Fallis
The author of ’One Brother Shy’ imagines the end of the Donald Trump presidency
Trump’s Final Chapter: ’The Sun was Eclipsed; It Was Total,’ by Eliza Robertson
The author of ’Demi-Gods’ writes a short story imagining the end of the Donald Trump presidency
The unknown story of how 300,000 Jews were saved in WWII
In secret talks, would-be saviours duped Himmler into thinking he should stop the extermination of Jews
In the world of Shari Lapena, everyone has a secret
Domestic thrillers rule the bestseller lists, and Shari Lapena’s newest is among the year’s most anticipated
Q&A: Caroline Moorehead on a mother’s fight against Italian fascism
Her latest book explores the life of single mother Amelia Rosselli, a playwright and activist at a time when Mussolini decreed women were second-class
The torture and sadness of Russia’s most famous conjoined twins
Juliet Butler on the suffering and resilience of Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, two mismatched souls bound up in the same body