Uncovered J.D. Salinger letters make references to Sesame Street, Kafka, and unpublished manuscripts Carmine Starnino wonders whether bpNichol is ... Read More »
July 6, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Tomorrow, the Polaris Music Prize announces this year's shortlist, narrowing the 40 longlisted Canadian albums down to 10, one of which will win the $30,000 prize. One band on this year's longlist, Montreal's The Dears, is ... Read More »
July 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Here's some friendly advice for Canadians returning from the U.S. after the July 4th festivities: be careful what reading material you bring back across the border. Last year, a U.S. man was charged with possession ... Read More »
July 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
J.K. Rowling casts her longtime agent away Najafi Companies buys Borders for $215-million, with "considerable number" of stores still to close YA author John Green reaches top of Amazon bestseller list with unfinished book George ... Read More »
July 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Author Nino Ricci and poet Lorna Crozier are among the 50 new nominees appointed to the Order of Canada. Crozier was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada for "her poetry and for her ... Read More »
June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Perhaps there's a drinking game in here somewhere, to be played at your fantasy Canada Day barbecue with Margaret Atwood. The Scotiabank Giller Prize has posted a list of all books eligible for the 2011 ... Read More »
June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The busy season for publishers has no shortage of big new releases, with novels from Ondaatje, Vanderhaeghe, and Endicott, the Massey Lectures from Adam Gopnik, and kids' books from Kenneth Oppel and Kit Pearson. In ... Read More »
This review of D.J. McIntosh's new novel, The Witch of Babylon, appeared in the July/August issue of Q&Q. Reviewer Cori Dusmann writes: The debut novel from Toronto writer D.J. McIntosh “ the first book in ... Read More »
June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
School's out for summer, and if you're looking for ways to occupy the wee ones that don't involve a Wii, here are five kids' books reviewed in the June 2011 issue of Q&Q. The Qalupalik ... Read More »
June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children's publishing
If William Shakespeare was alive today, would he be making late-night trips to White Castle? South African anthropologist Francis Thackeray thinks so. Thackeray, director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand ... Read More »
June 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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