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Recently we wrote an article about Toronto’s, wait for it, world-class basketball blogs! (Rome, Paris and Tokyo eat your heart out.) And that inspired this guide to guides to what’s happening here. So put down your alt-weekly and shed the notion that bloggers are just pimply elf-lords. We guarantee you … Read More
Shakespeare liked war, particularly the English civil war that came to be known as the War of the Roses. The Henry VI trilogy is actually part of the first War of the Roses tetralogy, which, when coupled with the second tetralogy makes up the full War of the Roses octalogy. … Read More
Party Going, by Henry Green. (Random House UK) This classic from 1939 is often said to be the most famous modernist book you’ve never heard of. The entire story takes place among rich and idle young people trapped in a London railway station hotel, waiting for a train to take … Read More
November is prize time for Canadian literature: the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize is being announced this week, the Governor General’s Award in two weeks. These are the playoffs, the national championships of books. Everybody in the publishing industry is downing Ativans waiting for the big announcements, which will … Read More
Last summer, XY Canada contributor Craig Macbride read every one of Shakespeare’s plays – so that you don’t have to. And now, monthly, he’s going to provide you with a quick and useful summary of each play, and what it teaches you about women. For teaching you about women, as … Read More
