THE BOOK’S THE THING: Warnings from Polonius notwithstanding, there seems to be no end of borrowing from the Bard these days, and Carole Corbeil’s upcoming novel is a case in point. Corbeil, the Toronto author ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
• Patrick McGrath’s The Grotesque, a British horror-cum-social comedy with erotic overtones, gets its screen debut in February. Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell are the stars. Random House carries the tie-in.• Monty Python meets ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
Good books don’t go badTo the editor:Re: “Returns rising” (Feb. 1997)Contrary to what John Lorinc says, I would like to suggest that returns do not have to be “a fact of life” for the book ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
• Caped crusader Val Kilmer exchanges his cloak for a halo of sorts in The Saint, an action blockbuster about a freelance James Bond uninhibited by ties to either Queen or country. Co-stars Elizabeth Shue ... Read More »
November 6, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
ON THE WATER FRONT: It may be an unlikely subject for a book, but during a year when Alberto Manguel is hard at work on a tome about the night, Marq de Villiers’ latest project ... Read More »
November 6, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
POETIC INTERVENTION• By merely rolling their eyes heavenwards, British patients can now offset the shrill of the dentist’s drill with some lyrical relief from “Poetry on the Ceiling.” Thanks to London’s Enitharmon Press, in conjunction ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
It’s a healthy type of cross-addiction, the way gardeners collect books. They want references on a limitless array of topics. Climate zones must be considered, specialty topics exhausted, garden planning guides consulted, and remedies for ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
A benefit reading for PEN Canada by Gita Mehta in downtown Toronto last month occasioned a gathering of the Knopf clan, first at Nicholas Hoare, where Mehta read from her new book Snakes and Ladders, ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
In this issue Peter Carver documents the ferocious campaign of a fundamentalist Christian group to remove the Joyce Carol Oates novel Foxfire from an Ontario high school curriculum. Carver points out that the struggle is ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
It is a teacher’s – and a school’s – worst nightmare. A book chosen for a senior English program suddenly becomes a cause célèbre, the target of one parent’s ire, the occasion for a massive ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
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