Noah Richler
Noah and the Liberal flood
Noah Richler takes readers inside the intense world of his failed campaign to become an NDP MP
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing shortlist
The five nominees for the Writers’ Trust best political book of 2012
Brad Pitt as Barney!! Was Richler joshing Jewison?
Mordecai’s son insists his dad was kidding
I can’t believe Duddy Kravitz is 50
Mordecai Richler’s son writes about the legacy of one of our most iconic characters
Top 10 Canadian books of the decade
Maclean’s books blogger Brian Bethune picks his favourites
Will we ever have a black prime minister?
On the anniversary of Barack Obama’s election, Wendy Mesley posed the above question on the National tonight. The segment isn’t separately online yet, but can be seen at the 35 minute mark of the National here. Mesley acknowledges it’s not an entirely fair comparison—demographics are different here than in the United States—but the discussion that follows is likely relevant nonetheless.
A once-in-a-lifetime literary love-in
Next week in Toronto, Diana Athill, 92, and Alice Munro, 78, will have a lot to gab about
Noah Richler is unimpressed
The son of one famed family, and keen student of Canada himself, reviews the work of another.