Mordecai Richler
An idiosyncratic survey of great Canadian reads
Randy Boyagoda’s picks for CanLit to curl up with this winter
The Thrill: Jurassic World, Peaches, and a Duddy Kravitz musical
This 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 books
From 2013: Jacob Richler on the preservation of a literary lion’s library
6 dropouts who went on to do great things
Impatience with school couldn’t stop these Canadians from getting rich and famous
Jacob Richler and a fettle over fennel
Excerpt 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 car
I maintained it impeccably. It was mint, and then all of a sudden, it wasn’t.
Yiddish lives on Canadian campuses
As the Jewish tongue dies at home, scholars step up
Newsmakers: July 8 – July 14, 2011
Anthony Galea pleads guilty, Bieber fever starts to wane, and a lost dog finally makes it home
No love for Mordecai Richler
Hollywood may be reading the Canadian icon but university students are not
Mitchel Raphael on a Hollywood hunk and Mrs. Harper
Look which journalist scored an interview with Mrs. Harper, Potash is a laughing matter—but only off the record
Brad Pitt as Barney!! Was Richler joshing Jewison?
Mordecai’s son insists his dad was kidding