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Russell Smith

Russell Smith
Former Contributor
Culture columnist
Toronto, Canada

Area of Expertise

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

Books Published

Girl Crazy, HarperCollins
Young Men, Anchor Canada
Men's Style: The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress, McClelland & Stewart
Latest articles
opinion
Globe Book Club: When an author inhabits another author’s world
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Russell Smith
opinion
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments may have won the Booker, but she still can’t get any love from Canadian prize juries
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Russell Smith
book review
Malcolm Gladwell on why we trust everyone even when we shouldn’t
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The Enthusiast: Embracing the brutal in Brutalist architecture
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What the broken embargo on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments tells us about the sorry state of publishing
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Russell Smith
book review
With its examination of evangelists, Five Wives puts Joan Thomas in Alice Munro’s league
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Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments is a thrilling – if lighter – sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
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opinion
Aleksandar Hemon’s memoirs reflect on family (in Hamilton), memory and nostalgia in Yugoslavia
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Russell Smith
opinion
Victoria Hetherington’s Mooncalves is a stunning debut
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Russell Smith
opinion
Adam Sol’s How a Poem Moves is a snapshot of the contemporary literary scene
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Russell Smith
opinion
Adam Gopnik’s subtle and sophisticated defence of democratic pluralism may struggle to reach its audience
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Russell Smith
book review
Rabindranath Maharaj’s Fatboy Fall Down revolves around immigration without mentioning it
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opinion
Globe Book Club: Why book clubs are for spending time with friends, not authors
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Russell Smith
opinion
Globe Book Club: The enduring appeal of animal literature
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Russell Smith
opinion
Biker poetry is an antidote to literary arrogance
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Russell Smith
opinion
Why CBC’s Canada Reads is bad for literature
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Russell Smith
book review
Review: David Bezmozgis makes a successful return to short stories with Immigrant City
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Young-adult fiction continues to invite moral drama, on and off the page
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Review: Into That Fire is promising in its themes and canvas, but ends up seeming stiff and contrived
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opinion
Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian’s latest story is a painful satire of sexual relations – and not an angry rant against toxic masculinity
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Russell Smith
Russell Smith
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