Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
July 29th, 2010 | 
Author: One man has made it his mission to document the unusual ways people practice religion. Benyamin Cohen talks to Michael Largo about the strangest stories he’s uncovered and why he’s obsessed.
Posted in 
A Fierce Radiance, set in 1940s New York, captures the city at war and the race to produce a powerful antibiotic (penicillin). Jane Ciabattari talks to Lauren Belfer about the amazing history behind her book.
Before The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, a Swedish couple wrote a series of detective novels (featuring an abused woman) that had an eerie influence on Larsson. Sarah Weinman on the original Scandinavian crime sensation.
While 43’s memoir isn’t due in stores until after the 2010 midterm voting is over, Republicans are increasingly anxious about its impact. Former Bush aide Matt Latimer on the Dems’ last best hope.
Amidst all the doom and gloom of the publishing industry, the CEO of Ingram Book Company, Skip Prichard, says books of all sorts are here to stay and we should embrace the change-and keep on reading.
Charlie Waite hosts a video masterclass on how to edit and present your travel
photographs.
Sir Tom Stoppard is to pen five hour adaptation of the First World War for the
BBC, the first time the author and dramatist has worked with the BBC in more
than 30 years.
A wave of events along France’s Norman coast celebrate the work of Monet, Pissarro
and Boudin.
Beautiful Impressionist paintings of Normandy by artists such as Monet,
Pissarro and Boudin.
Two Canadian authors have been longlisted for the £50,000 ($80,000) Man Booker Prize for Fiction, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards.
St. John’s writer Lisa Moore is one of 13 novelists nominated for the Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious English-language literary awards.
Toronto-based poet Christian Campbell has been shortlisted for Britain’s Forward Prize for poetry.
Newly available recordings at the University of Virginia allow people to hear William Faulkner’s soft drawl, and listen to him talk about his writing, his career and current events.
Section 1201(a)(1) of the copyright law requires that every three years I am to determine whether there are any classes of works that will be subject to exemptions from the statute’s prohibition against circumvention of technology that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work.
Switzerland without the stereotypes, and a guide to Italy’s most spectacular
landscapes.
Famous quotes from writers and travellers about Siberia.
Enid Blyton’s Famous Five children’s book series, written between 1942 and 1963, are getting an update with modern words and phrases replacing old ones.
Norwegian war correspondent Asne Seierstad has been ordered to pay $40,000 US in damages to a woman profiled in her book, The Bookseller of Kabul.
When Daisy Hay set out to write her biography of the Romantic poets she wasn’t sure what she was getting into, but in Iowa, New York, and Hampstead she found that her subjects came alive in the most unusual ways.
Is there a more appealing man on TV than Don Draper? Natasha Vargas-Cooper on the allure of the Mad Men lead-and why his dark charisma reminds her of Cary Grant and Clark Gable.
The actress went behind bars yesterday but what will she doing with all her free time? Former prison librarian Avi Steinberg humbly offers his list of what she should read.
A look at great reads from the editor of the TLS. This week: the strange obsessions of French writer Lautréamont, a celebratory history of famous feminists, and a new biography explores Arthur Koestler.
For decades, author Sebastian Junger has been covering wars all over the world, but he never imagined that his book, War, and movie, Restrepo, on Afghanistan would become lightning rods for the left and right.
A new exhibition at Compton Verney traces how eruptions have inspired artists
through the centuries.
In his new memoir, C’mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark, Vancouver’s Ryan Knighton uses comedy to feel his way through life as a nearly blind father.
The 20-page booklet “Talking Rooms: Walking Through History at the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Headquarters” has received an APEX 2010 Award of Excellence in the One-of-a-Kind Government Publication category.
Movie buffs, comic-book collectors, sci-fi fans and nerds and geeks of all stripes have taken over San Diego for Comic-Con, the southern California city’s annual pop culture convention.
Teachers and school boards should embrace comic books and graphic novels as a “gateway” literature.
Charlie Waite on using perspective in landscapes and how to capture portraits
on your travels.
The federal government is asking Canadians to share their thoughts on the domestic publishing industry and whether changes need to be made to Canada’s foreign investment policy for the book sector.
Montreal’s Blue Metropolis literary festival is launching a search for a new chief, as its founder and artistic director prepares to retire.
The Booker-nominated British novelist’s love of language runs deep.
A young Twihard reviews the latest addition in everyone’s favourite vampire series.
Toward the end of March, a first-time novelist found herself sitting in the basement of a King Street West bakery, in downtown Toronto, about to be interviewed for the first time ever.
The first time Bryan Lee O’Malley hosted a comic book launch on Toronto’s Markham Street, only about 50 people showed up for the party. How times have changed.
Canadian comic artist and writer Bryan Lee O’Malley talks to CBC-TV’s Eli Glasner about Scott Pilgrim.