An idiosyncratic survey of great Canadian readsRandy Boyagoda’s picks for CanLit to curl up with this winter
The Thrill: Jurassic World, Peaches, and a Duddy Kravitz musicalThis week: We discuss the dino blockbuster, interview art icon Peaches, and learn why a musical changed the end of a Richler classic
Mordecai Richler’s 5,000 booksFrom 2013: Jacob Richler on the preservation of a literary lion’s library
6 dropouts who went on to do great thingsImpatience with school couldn’t stop these Canadians from getting rich and famous
Jacob Richler and a fettle over fennelExcerpt from a culinary memoir with bonus recipe for ’Lobster pasta with f--king fennel’
A celebration of Robertson Davies (on what would have been his 99th birthday)Robertson Davies is a permanent fixture in the Canadian canon, yet today, at least among younger readers, he is sadly neglected.
The Jag was my father Mordecai’s last carI maintained it impeccably. It was mint, and then all of a sudden, it wasn’t.
Newsmakers: July 8 - July 14, 2011Anthony Galea pleads guilty, Bieber fever starts to wane, and a lost dog finally makes it home
No love for Mordecai RichlerHollywood may be reading the Canadian icon but university students are not