A street at the heart of Montreal
Hutchison Street, a novel by Abla Farhoud that was recently translated from the French, helps bridge cultural divides
Author Philip Roth dies at 85
Philip Roth was the author of and The Great American Novel.
Essential reading for a Polish journey
In advance of a trip to Poland, Bill Gladstone looks at three books he considers essential reading.
Scholars restore pages with sexuality and dirty jokes to Anne Frank’s diary
The pages’ contents had remained unknown for decades because Frank had erased them. They were also covered by sheets of brown paper glued on top of them.
Seeing marriage through the prism of time
Noam Zion’s new book, Marital Friendship and Covenantal Partnership: Comparative Models of Love and Marriage , sheds light on the history of marriage and on confusion about it in contemporary society
Magali Sauves signe un thriller policier haletant
Le nouveau roman de Magali Sauves, 160 Rue Saint-Viateur Ouest , est un thriller palpitant se déroulant au sein de la communauté hassidiques du Mile End.
Novel is an intriguing mix of mystery and history
Author Heather Chisvin deftly leads the reader on double-tiered, past-and-present literary paths that, thankfully, meet at the end of A Fist Around the Heart
Pound’s support of fascism didn’t deter his appeal to American poets
Daniel Swift’s The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound examines the best-known 20th century case of a creative career falling under a cloud because of an artist’s behaviour and ideas.
Novella splendidly blends math and literature
This book is a pseudo-biography imagining the early life of Benoit Mandelbrot, “the father of fractals.”
The role of Jewish Canadian soldiers in the Second World War
Double Threat, by Ellin Bessner, leaves no stones unturned in its telling of the full-blooded saga of the heroic participation of Jewish men and women in the Canadian military during the Second World War.
