books
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
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
You may have read in Eye Weekly last week an interview with our sociable editor, Russell, who likes to boast about his old clothes. In the embarrassing photo, he was seen clutching a martini glass containing a murky amber liquid. That, dear readers, is our new creation: it’s a cocktail … Read More
Ever wonder about that spam email that promises to increase your organ size by at least three inches? Don’t. The organ worth growing is between your ears — not your legs. Women will tell you that wit and wisdom takes you places. So we say, get thee to night school! … Read More
