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Spend an afternoon with Margaret Atwood and William Gibson at Toronto’s new book fair
After a disastrous year for this city’s quickly vanishing bookstores , Toronto bibliophiles have at least one thing to be...
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Life
The Wattpad Cult: why Toronto’s buzziest tech start-up is a self-publishing app beloved by teen girls
Wattpad occupies three floors of a handsome Greek Revival building on the touristy stretch of Wellington East. The office, if you...
Spend an evening with a legendary literary agent who goes by “the jackal”
Seventies party boy turned all-powerful literary agent Andrew Wylie is perhaps the most despised and admired player in...
City News
Memoir: for decades, I made my living as a poet. Then I was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s—and found myself at a loss for words
I don’t remember exactly when I stopped remembering. For years, I’d find myself pausing in the middle of sentences, unable to...
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City News
The Canadian Hemophilia Society has published a romance novel, and it’s amazing
Working in public relations for a disease society must be a hard job. Nobody really wants what you're selling (i.e. disease) and...
City News
From now on, we buy our smut from Rupert Murdoch: Torstar is selling Harlequin
Harlequin —international romance-novel publisher, ripper of a million bodices—is based in Toronto and owned by Torstar , the...
City News
Someone tried to get
Hop on Pop
banned from Toronto libraries
Toronto Public Library occasionally gets requests from people who want a particular book, movie or audio recording removed from...
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City News
The
Star
’s Robyn Doolittle has had a crazy week
The Toronto Star ’s Robyn Doolittle won the race to publish a comprehensive treatment of Rob Ford ’s crack scandal with the...
City News
Seven crazy things we learned from
Crazy Town
, Robyn Doolittle’s new book about Rob Ford
Today is the day the public can finally buy Crazy Town , the much-anticipated book-length treatment of Rob Ford ’s mayoralty, as...
City News
Six things we learned from Olivia Chow’s new autobiography,
My Journey
The best way to declare your mayoral candidacy without actually declaring it? Write a political memoir. My Journey , the new...
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Culture
U.S. author Gary Shteyngart aggravates Canada’s literary insecurity
Can a country whose most celebrated living writer just won a Nobel Prize still be anxious about its literary chops? The...
City News
Mommy Porn Goes Global: with 50 Shades of Grey and Gabriel’s Inferno, BDSM-tinged bodice-rippers are changing the way we read
In September 2009, a serialized novel called The University of Edward Masen debuted on Twilighted, an online fan fiction forum...
City News
World’s Biggest Bookstore has been sold to the developer behind the Four Seasons Hotel
First it was Sam the Record Man. Then Honest Eds. Now, yet another iconic local retailer is packing it in. Come February, the...
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City News
Bizarrely, someone donated a 1933 edition of Mein Kampf to the Trinity College book sale
Alongside the secondhand Lee Child thrillers and Can-lit classics at this weekend’s Trinity College book sale is a copy of...
City News
Q&A: Malcolm Gladwell on why it pays to be an underdog
In Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, David and Goliath, the bestselling pop sociologist Gladsplains the art of beating the odds The...
City News
Best of Fall 2013: five books by Toronto writers you absolutely must read
By Andrew D’Cruz, Sue Carter Flinn, Emily Landau, Alison Mah, Jason McBride, Courtney Shea, Stéphanie Verge, Chris Webster and...
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Culture
Backstory: the grisly Yonge Street murder behind Anthony De Sa’s new novel
A sadistic true-life murder becomes part of Toronto’s painful coming-of-age in the Canadian novelist’s gritty new book On July...
Culture
Spotlight: Joseph Boyden’s new novel is an epic story of blood and butchery in early Canada
Through a weird twist of cultural fate, Canada’s best-known native writer is a white guy from Willowdale. Joseph Boyden, who was...
City News
Five things you didn’t know about Margaret Atwood, whose apocalyptic new novel is out August 27
1 | She eats bugs “My dad was an entomologist, so I have nothing against eating insects. Giant locusts are delicious toasted.”...
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The King of Spooky: Linwood Barclay’s rise from suburban dad to Canada’s biggest fiction export
Linwood Barclay’s thrillers have been translated into 40 languages and published in 30 countries, making him a...
Style
The Drake General Store opens a location at Yonge and Eglinton
The Drake General Store has shuttered its Rosedale location and opened a new store 27 blocks north, at 2607 Yonge Street. The...
City News
Olivia Chow is writing a memoir, fueling speculation about a mayoral run
Olivia Chow, who has been toying with reporters about a possible mayoral run for months, is penning a memoir that’s supposed to...
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City News
See, Hear, Read: the best movie, music and book release for May
This is the kind of buzzed-about doc that sends quivers of delight through lineups at the Lightbox. It’s all about the crackpot...
City News
The List: 10 things singer-songwriter Sarah Slean can’t live without
1 | My mini paints I got these when I was on tour in Stockholm in 2004. They’re the perfect size for travelling. I like to do a...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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