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Russell Smith

Russell Smith
Contributor
Culture columnist
Toronto, Canada
russell_smith@rogers.com

Area of Expertise

Arts, Celebrity, Culture

Russell Smith is a columnist for The Globe and Mail. His most recent novel, Girl Crazy, is currently being adapted for cinema for New Real Films. He is a co-founder of the online men's magazine DailyXY.com.

Books

Books Published

Girl Crazy, HarperCollins
Young Men, Anchor Canada
Men's Style: The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress, McClelland & Stewart
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Writers' Trust non-fiction winner All Things Consoled is a personal look into family dynamics and parental loss
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Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction winner Dear Evelyn explores the hardships of marriage in the 20th century
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Monty Python star Michael Palin’s new book on British ship Erebus takes you to ye olde sea life
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Why Governor General’s Literary Award winner The Red Word is a true dark horse pick
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By picking Anna Burns’s Milkman, Man Booker Prize rewards the difficult over the popular
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There will be no Nobel Prize in Literature this year. Should we even care?
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The Giller Prize short list is remarkable, diverse and daring
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Is an art project reconstructing the Berlin Wall provocative or offensive?
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Russell Smith
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Fiction, at its core, is about telling other people’s stories
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Canlit versus its scholars
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Paint it black: The subversive story of Anish Kapoor’s man-eating art piece
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Russell Smith
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Zadie Smith’s contentious new short story reminds of the nasty art of satire
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Russell Smith
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When protest art is protested
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Russell Smith
opinion
CanLit isn’t what it used to be
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A library rises from the ashes in Wafaa Bilal’s new Aga Khan Museum installation
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Insane auction prices, increased commercialization are hurting art and artists
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Russell Smith
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Pop culture’s self-regulating nature will sap drill music of its power
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Russell Smith
opinion
Icelandic musician Olafur Arnalds brings a techy twist on the classic concert to Toronto’s Luminato Festival
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Russell Smith
opinion
Erwin Blumenfeld and the sensual, anti-ideological ideology of Dadaism
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Why is Quebec’s literary culture so much more fun than the rest of Canada’s?
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Russell Smith