• Rohinton Mistry has added the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book, Caribbean and Canada division, to the string of… Read More »
The art of illustration
Ottawa residents have a treat in store this summer in the National Library of Canada’s newest exhibition, The Art of… Read More »
Fax
Bonfire of Vanity• Plucky U.K. poet and Fax fixture Andrew Tait, whose daring antics to secure a publisher include threatening… Read More »
Corporate world fuels Web growth
Expect strong demand for titles about servers, scripting languages, and intranets
Mathematically incorrect?
Schoolteachers may make good parents, but they’re often not the best teachers for their own offspring. As my two daughters… Read More »
The young and the restless
I don’t remember anyone ever saying when I joined the book business three years ago that it would be a… Read More »
Why they were banned
Three books recently banned by the Surrey school board all have one thing in common: each uses matter-of-fact, positive imagery… Read More »
File under
Hardwired, the book publishing division of Wired magazine, is giving away a “wired culture” package to booksellers to promote the… Read More »
Avoiding the homework hounds
Anthologies are popular on senior high school curriculums – for good reason: they offer students choice in their reading material,… Read More »
Letters
Unhealthy relationsTo the editor:As one of the HarperHundred victims, I was choked up by Ed Carson’s flatulent and sweaty-palmed statement… Read More »