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All our regular lists, plus Crafts & Hobbies, and Short Story Collections

Publishing

Ken Finkleman sticks the knife in

Funnyman turned author uses a deadly metaphor to pick apart literary jealousy

Awards

Colm Tóibín named Griffin judge

Regina-born poet Tim Lilburn and American poet Chase Twichell

A women steps out through a gape between tents at a camp for flood-affected people in Sukkur, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.
The Tuesday Essay

After the flood

A new generation of Pakistani writers find their voices in the aftermath of their homeland’s epic natural disaster

Jane Urquhart photographed in Toronto on Aug. 17, 2010.
Profile

Matriarch of all she surveys

At 61, Jane Urquhart commands her literary world

Peter Gzowski in 2001
Review: Biography

Gzowski unplugged

Suanne Kelman reviews Peter Gzowski, by R.B. Fleming

The Daily Review, Fri., Sep. 2

Remembering how to forget

Ibi Kaslik reviews The Queen of Unforgetting, by Sylvia Maultash Warsh

The Daily Review, Wed., Sep. 1

Istanbulopolis

Geoff Chapman reviews The Dervish House, by Ian McDonald

The Daily Review, Tue., Aug. 31

Dogged survival

Jack Kirchhoff reviews Dog Boy, by Eva Hornung

Interview

Jonathan Franzen on fiction, fame and Freedom

The author who dissed Oprah talks about his fans, his creative process and the hardest thing about writing a bestseller

Review: Fiction

Death, misery and writing

Linwood Barclay reviews Noah’s Turn, by Ken Finkleman

Review: Fiction

Exhibiting suicidal tendencies

J.C. Sutcliffe reviews Little Hands Clapping, by Dan Rhodes

Review: Fiction

Family, history and the whole megilla

Michael Wex’s funny debut novel is an homage to the tenacity of Yiddish culture

Review: Memoir

Dogs and other best friends

Marian Botsford Fraser reviews Let's Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell

Review: Fiction

Juliet by any other name

Elizabeth Johnston reviews Juliet, by Anne Fortier

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A wooly tale

Susan Perren reviews Feeding the Sheep, by Leda Schubert

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The Globe Books blog
ReLit shortlist announced

Martin Levin's Shelf Life
For entrepreneurial authors only

The Globe Books Survey

Are you reading any or all of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy this summer?

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Shantael Sleight sent us this photo of what she's reading: Fishing for Bacon by Michael Davie, recent winner of the $10,000 Alberta Readers Choice Award and the Georges Bugent Award for best novel.
Decoding the Decade: Books
The Book of the Decade

You don't need to visit the Hall of Prophecy to figure this one out

British author J.K. Rowling presents her novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the National History museum in London.
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Open House Festival: The Podcasts

Hear Camille Paglia, Colm Tóibín, Peter Carey and more from their appearances at the Globe and Mail Open House book festival

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IFOA podcast archive

From Atwood to Ignatieff to Willis, a complete set of all the podcasts of readings and discussions recorded at the International Festival of Authors