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The literary annexation of Mavis Gallant should embarrass and enrage us
Emily Donaldson
Mavis Gallant, 84, Canadian writer who lives in Paris, Famed for her short story writing in particular. at the Warwick hotel, New York City Photo by Neville Elder for The Globe and Mail Nov. 2, 2006
The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of April 5, 2025
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Books we’re reading and loving in April: Falling is a tangled psychological suspense
Tanya Talaga, Jane Philpott among finalists for Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
Writer Tanya Talaga poses for a portrait during promotional day for Audible Podcasts in Toronto, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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New biography Ripper delivers a searing and convincing critique of Pierre Poilievre
Charlotte Gray
appreciation
Alma Lee, who founded Vancouver Writers Fest, dies at 84
Alma Lee at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, one of her favourite spots.
David Sheff’s biography of Yoko Ono aims to crush the rumours that surround her
Author David Sheff
The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of March 29, 2025
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Sutherland House Books buys long-time indie publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Ken Whyte . longtime news magazine publisher Ken Whyte’s publishing house, Sutherland House Books, pegged to its 5th anniversary. It’s focused on nonfiction and has unexpectedly become a destination or Canadian stories. Shot in his office Toronto September 18, 2024
Latest Hunger Games novel Sunrise on the Reaping has biggest opening ever for Suzanne Collins’s blockbuster series
Ella Dolynchuk holds her copy of "Sunrise on the Reaping" by Suzanne Collins at a midnight launch party at Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hillel Italie)
Ryan North supercharges Fantastic Four comic book with a healthy dose of reality
Author Ryan North, who has been writing the Fantastic Four series for Marvel, poses for a photo near his home in Toronto, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Galit Rodan/The Globe and Mail)
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Former Facebook exec’s tell-all memoir Careless People is the book Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want you to read
Canadian writer Chip Zdarsky is the comic-book world’s very own Nostradamus
WhiteHouseRobotRomance_01-CVR-D new comic series White House Robot Romance from Canadian Chip Zdarsky, following political crisis that threatens to drag America and Canada into war
Countertariffs on U.S. books could complicate Buy Canadian movement and threaten local bookstores, retailers say
Paul MacKay, manager of King’s Co-op Bookstore in Halifax with some of the books in his store on Friday, February 14, 2025.
Graydon Carter’s new memoir is a love letter to the glory days of the magazine era
Graydon Carter, the Canadian journalist who served as the editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 until 2017, at his apartment in the Greenwich neighborhood of New York, March 5, 2025. In his new memoir, “When the Going Was Good,” the editor from the heyday of glossy magazines dishes about Anna Wintour and recounts his long-running feud with Donald Trump. (Dana Scruggs/The New York Times)
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Read an excerpt from Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre
The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of March 22, 2025
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Inside Biblioasis and Mark Bourrie’s mad rush to get a Pierre Poilievre bio on shelves
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre addresses supporters during a rally in Sudbury, Ont. on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Gino Donato
Thirty-seven new books you need to read this spring
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Unsure how to talk to your teens about dating? There’s a book for that
For many parents, having the ‘sex talk’ is child’s play compared to navigating teenage love and heartbreak. Author Lisa A. Phillips breaks it down in her new book, First Love: Guiding Teens through Relationships and Heartbreak
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Mel Robbins has a message for micro-managers: Let them
Mel Robbins
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New book about medicare highlights Canada’s need for another Tommy Douglas
Former NDP leader T.C. (Tommy) Douglas shown in this Oct. 19, 1983 photo in Ottawa with the Parliament buildings in the background. The debate is over the CBC prime-time special has named Douglas The Greatest Canadian. (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/Chris Schwarz)
Writer and artist Roza Nozari reckons with family secrets in new memoir, All the Parts We Exile
author Roza Nozari
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New memoir After the North Pole captures the love-affair-turned-obsession of polar exploration
From the book After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, Melting Ice Book. Courtesy Erling Kagge
The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of March 15, 2025
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Toronto International Festival of Authors to leave Harbourfront Centre, become independent
This Nov. 14, 2012 photo shows a family walking on ice near the board walk at Toronto's Harbour Front in Toronto. The Harbourfront Centre's 10-acre lakeside site hosts over 4,000 events, a large majority of which are gratis. The arts and culture hub's York Quay Center and The Power Plant have changing arts and photo exhibits year-round for no entry fee. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Bestselling Canadian author Louise Penny cancels all U.S. engagements, citing trade war
Penny, Louise_credit Mikael Theimer Louise Penny author
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Stephen Harper dives into the history of Canada’s flag in latest book
Soldiers and rescue personnel are silhouetted against a Canada flag prior to a speech by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as he partakes in Operation Nanook 2011 in Resolute, Nunavut on Tuesday, August 23, 2011. Harper will be on a four day tour of the north visiting Resolute, Baker Lake, Whitehorse, Yellowknife, and Haines Junction. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of March 8, 2025
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The anger in Kate Beaton’s new children’s book Shark Girl is a gift, and a demand for accountability
Illustrations by Kate Beaton
Publishing sector, major book printer Friesens pin hopes on tariff exemption
PLEASE DO NOT USE AS FEATURED IMAGE ON BOOKS STORIES, HAS BEEN GREATLY OVERUSED // Open paper book on wooden table, retro style education and literature background
Divorce, by the book: Authors Haley Mlotek and Scaachi Koul talk it out
Why divorce books are everywhere right now
Beverley McLachlin goes from the courtroom to the bestseller list
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, retired in December after 28 years on the Supreme Court of Canada, seventeen of those as the 17th Chief Justice of Canada. McLachlin, also the first woman to hold this position, and the longest serving Chief Justice of Canada in history, is photographed at her office at the Supreme Court of Canada, on Dec 11 2017. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
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Books we’re reading and loving in March: Did I Ever Tell You? is a tearjerker memoir and a mother’s final gift
The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of March 1, 2025
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