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  • Special Feature: Coach House Books
    Special Feature: Coach House Books
    June 02, 2017

    Special Feature: Coach House Books

    One evening every September, a back laneway in Toronto fills with writers, artists, publishers and other bookish types. They gather at the annual Coach House Books Wayzgoose to raise a glass to one of ...

  • Do Not Say We Have Nothing
    Do Not Say We Have Nothing
    December 14, 2016

    Madeleine Thien on Language, Music, and Asking the Unaskable

    2016 has been Madeleine Thien's year. It's not often that the world of writing and publishing can agree so enthusiastically on a writer's achievements, but Thien's breathtaking Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf ...

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