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“#How Chloe Gong used TikTok to turn her YA book into a bestseller” When Chloe Gong was brainstorming where to set her Romeo and Juliet-inspired YA book “These Violent Delights,” the answer seemed pretty clear: 1920s Shanghai. “My parents were always talking about it as a glamorous time in Shanghai, based on the stories they’d…
“#Canadians paid the price for British mistakes in Dieppe, says British historian” In his book Operation Jubilee, military historian Patrick Bishop offers a retelling of the raid during the war in 1942 and its cost to Canadian lives The failure of the Second World War raid on Dieppe on Aug. 19, 1942—which saw 3,367 Canadians…
“#Six books to read this winter” Engaging new reads for the holiday season 12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson 12 Bytes: How we got here. Where we might go next By Jeanette Winterson (Grove, Oct. 12) The author of Frankissstein (2020) has an abiding interest in the relationship between humans and their technology. In the dozen…
“#The crime novel second acts of Chris Hadfield and Beverley McLachlin” This fall is a season for new or newly announced crime novels penned by people famous in other fields A former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, a former U.S. secretary of state, a former commander of the International Space Station, even…
“#Our ancient ancestors may have been more civilized than we are” A new book offers a version of history in which we lived for thousands of years in large and complex societies without kings or cops We like to think of ourselves as living in scientific times, but what if the familiar story of “civilization”…
“#Harry Potter book sold for $38K by a guy named Harry Potter” A first edition of the debut Harry Potter book in the series by J.K. Rowling was just sold for $38,000 by a British man with a stake in the character’s good name. Indeed, one Harry Potter, 33, of Waterlooville, Hampshire, has sold his…
“#Emily Ratajkowski on the price of beauty and sexualization” Emily Ratajkowski was born beautiful. As her mother, Kathy, told it, the doctor who delivered her held up the perfect infant and exclaimed, “Look at the size of her! She’s beautiful!” “The next day he brought his children to the hospital just to see you,” she…
“#Bingeing into the 21st century with artist Douglas Coupland” Anyone who has tried to cram about nine hours of Squid Game into a day or two of viewing—that would be millions of people recently—can only agree with Douglas Coupland’s thought process in naming his first work of fiction in eight years. “It’s called Binge for…
“#Three new books to read in October” New long reads to spend your evenings with (Courtesy of Simon & Schuster) Praying to the West: How Muslims shaped the Americas By Omar Mouallem (Simon & Schuster, Sept. 21) Edmonton journalist and filmmaker Mouallem always saw his Muslim identity as something imposed upon him by his family…
“#Judith Ivey climbing back on stage in off-Broadway production” Broadway’s “Morning’s at Seven,” which opened in 1939, is now reopening in off-B’way’s Theatre at St. Clement’s. Its star Judith Ivey: “I saw it in 1980. Again, 2002. Now, during rehearsal, our temperature’s taken daily. Your time to talk, you take the mask off. Wait your turn….