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Munk School of Global Affairs announces 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlist

The finalists for this year's Lionel Gelber Prize, which honours the world's best titles on foreign affairs, have been revealed: Rosa Brooks (U.S.), How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the ... Read More »

February 1, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

D&M’s Trena White lands fellowships at Frankfurt, IFOA

By Stuart Woods

Earlier this week, Q&Q reported that Trena White, publisher at D&M Publishers, has been named the inaugural Canadian editorial fellow for the I.V. Programme, the annual networking event that runs alongside Toronto's International Festival of ... Read More »

July 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Richard Gwyn wins $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen prize

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Richard Gwyn's Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867 - 1891 (Random House Canada), the second volume in the two-part biography of Canada's first Prime Minister, is the recipient of ... Read More »

April 26, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Spring preview 2012: Canadian non-fiction

By Natalie Samson

In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season's new books. MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY Revolutionary activity in the Middle East and North Africa has created an appetite for stories about life in these ... Read More »

January 10, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Preview

Weekend reading list: the top stories from around our offices

By Sue Carter

Every weekend Q&Q rounds up the highlights from other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. This week's top stories include tales of suburban migration, fall cooking, and political espionage. Toronto Life: Exodus to the ... Read More »

September 18, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Fall preview 2011: Canadian non-fiction

By Stuart Woods

In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season's biggest books. POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS With Canada's combat role in Afghanistan coming to an end this summer, a number of fall titles take ... Read More »

August 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Preview

Novelist Gil Courtemanche succumbs to cancer

By Steven W. Beattie

Gil Courtemanche, the journalist and novelist whose best-selling 2000 novel about the Rwandan genocide, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, was made into a movie in 2006, lost a two-year battle with cancer of ... Read More »

August 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Ezra Levant wins Best Political Book contest

By Natalie Samson

The Writers' Trust of Canada, in collaboration with Samara, has named Ezra Levant's Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights (McClelland & Stewart, 2009) the Best Canadian Political Book ... Read More »

August 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Writers’ Trust turns spotlight on political books

By Natalie Samson

Spurred by the recent federal election, The Writers' Trust of Canada has partnered with Samara, a non-profit organization that seeks to strengthen citizen engagement in Canada's democratic system, to launch a project called The Best ... Read More »

June 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Edmonton literary magazine launches in Toronto

By Natalie Samson

Eighteen Bridges, the cultural magazine of "narrative journalism and first-person essays" that sprang onto Edmonton's literary scene in October 2010, will make its Toronto debut tonight. A labour of love co-founded by Curtis Gillespie and ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: Politics

Munk School of Global Affairs announces 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlist

D&M’s Trena White lands fellowships at Frankfurt, IFOA

Richard Gwyn wins $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen prize

Spring preview 2012: Canadian non-fiction

Weekend reading list: the top stories from around our offices

Fall preview 2011: Canadian non-fiction

Novelist Gil Courtemanche succumbs to cancer

Ezra Levant wins Best Political Book contest

Writers’ Trust turns spotlight on political books

Edmonton literary magazine launches in Toronto

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