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Russell Smith

Former ContributorCulture columnistToronto, Canada

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Arts, Celebrity, Culture

Russell Smith was 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

Girl Crazy, HarperCollins

Young Men, Anchor Canada

Men's Style: The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress, McClelland & Stewart

Latest articles

Globe Book Club: When an author inhabits another author’s world

Russell SmithNovember 9, 2019Updated

Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments may have won the Booker, but she still can’t get any love from Canadian prize juries

Russell SmithOctober 16, 2019

Malcolm Gladwell on why we trust everyone even when we shouldn’t

September 24, 2019Updated

The Enthusiast: Embracing the brutal in Brutalist architecture

September 22, 2019

What the broken embargo on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments tells us about the sorry state of publishing

Russell SmithSeptember 11, 2019

With its examination of evangelists, Five Wives puts Joan Thomas in Alice Munro’s league

September 5, 2019

Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments is a thrilling – if lighter – sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

September 5, 2019

Aleksandar Hemon’s memoirs reflect on family (in Hamilton), memory and nostalgia in Yugoslavia

Russell SmithJuly 30, 2019

Victoria Hetherington’s Mooncalves is a stunning debut

Russell SmithJune 18, 2019

Adam Sol’s How a Poem Moves is a snapshot of the contemporary literary scene

Russell SmithJune 3, 2019Updated

Adam Gopnik’s subtle and sophisticated defence of democratic pluralism may struggle to reach its audience

Russell SmithMay 27, 2019

Rabindranath Maharaj’s Fatboy Fall Down revolves around immigration without mentioning it

Globe Book Club: Why book clubs are for spending time with friends, not authors

Russell SmithMay 4, 2019Updated

Globe Book Club: The enduring appeal of animal literature

Russell SmithApril 27, 2019Updated

Biker poetry is an antidote to literary arrogance

Russell SmithApril 3, 2019

Why CBC’s Canada Reads is bad for literature

Russell SmithMarch 20, 2019Updated

Review: David Bezmozgis makes a successful return to short stories with Immigrant City

Young-adult fiction continues to invite moral drama, on and off the page

Review: Into That Fire is promising in its themes and canvas, but ends up seeming stiff and contrived

February 19, 2019

Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian’s latest story is a painful satire of sexual relations – and not an angry rant against toxic masculinity

Russell SmithJanuary 22, 2019