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February 16, 2017Featured Video: Marc Raboy on his RBC Taylor Prize nominated Marconi Biography
The idea of the radio as cutting edge technology may seem quaint in 2017, but it's almost impossible to overestimate the impact Marconi's invention had on the world. From commodities trading, with markets ...
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February 27, 2017Featured Video: Matti Friedman on his RBC Taylor Prize nominated military memoir
After moving to Israel from Toronto as a teen, Matti Friedman served three years in the Israeli army. Part of a small group charged with holding a remote Lebanon hilltop (codename "The Pumpkin") Friedman's ...
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February 06, 2017Featured Video: Max Eisen on his Taylor Prize Nominated Book By Chance Alone
Max Eisen is the author of By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz (HarperCollins Canada), nominated for the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction. The harrowing ...
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February 22, 2017Featured Video: Ross King on his RBC Taylor Prize nominated Monet Biography
It's one of the most iconic series of paintings in the world: Monet's water lilies series, huge watercolour canvases that are instantly recognizable, even to those outside the art world. But the story ...
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January 30, 2020February 2020 Writer-in-Residence Nadia Hohn on Recommended Books, Overlooked Gems, and Charming Tropes
Critically-acclaimed Jamaican-Canadian children's author Nadia Hohn has spent her career celebrating Black stories, from her award-winning debut picture book Malaika's Costume (House of Anansi) to her ...
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June 13, 2022Feel the Power of Indigenous Spoken Word in an Excerpt from Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry
Back in 2021, the Festival of the Peripheries (FLUP) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) came together to stage a spectacular poetry happening: 17 Indigenous ...
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October 21, 2015Festival like a Pro at Toronto’s Great Big Literary Party
It’s October, the month when pumpkin fills our bellies, ghouls parade our streets and writers from around the globe flock like moths to the literary-festival flame. In Toronto (and many Ontario locations ...
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July 19, 2017Fifth Business; First-Person Shooter - Whither the Great Video Game Adaptation?
When an author mentions a book adaptation, the next question the author fields is invariably about casting. The book adaptation is assumed to be a film or television series. After all, books have provided ...
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July 05, 2012Filling in the Blanks: Photography, Inspiration and Max Dean’s Albums
I have an album. It isn’t mine, but I am taking care of it. For how long, I’m not sure. I’m not even sure for whom.The album tells a story, but the narrative is fragmented. It’s set in the US ...
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one day agoFinalists Announced for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
The Writers’ Trust of Canada has revealed the shortlist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, honouring novels and short story collections that stretch the boundaries of narrative ...
