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Life of Pi author Yann Martel: I thought the Iliad was a book for old farts then I started getting ideas'

Yann Martel's new novel, Son of Nobody, reimagines the Trojan War from the perspective of an unknown soldier, blending humor and domesticity with scholarly footnotes.
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Yann Martel talks about his new novel, 'Son of Nobody'

Yann Martel's novel 'Son Of Nobody' intertwines the life of Harlow Donne with the lost epic of Psoas, a commoner from the Trojan War.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Life of Pi author Yann Martel: I thought the Iliad was a book for old farts then I started getting ideas'

Yann Martel's new novel, Son of Nobody, reimagines the Trojan War from the perspective of an unknown soldier, blending humor and domesticity with scholarly footnotes.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

Yann Martel talks about his new novel, 'Son of Nobody'

Yann Martel's novel 'Son Of Nobody' intertwines the life of Harlow Donne with the lost epic of Psoas, a commoner from the Trojan War.
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fromThe Walrus
3 days ago

The HarperCollins "Canadian Classics" Is an American Side Hustle | The Walrus

HarperCollins Canada will release a series of Canadian reprints titled HarperCollins Canadian Classics on May 5, 2026.
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fromThe Atlantic
3 days ago

Unconventional Novels About Conventional People

Aging revolutionaries and conformists share parallel narratives of disillusionment and the loss of youthful dreams in recent literature.
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6 days ago

6 books named finalists for the 2026 International Booker Prize

Six books are finalists for the 2026 International Booker Prize, highlighting diverse narratives and female authors.
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6 books named finalists for the 2026 International Booker Prize

Six books are finalists for the 2026 International Booker Prize, highlighting diverse narratives and female authors.
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3 weeks ago

I Wrote a Popular Book about Going Sober. Then I Relapsed | The Walrus

During summer 2020, the author engaged in heavy drinking while maintaining a public image of sobriety, consuming alcohol before and during social outings on Toronto Island.
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1 month ago

Elle-Maija Tailfeathers returns Toronto film critics award, says support for Palestine cut from speech | CBC News

Elle-Maija Tailfeathers returned her Toronto Film Critics Association Award after her pro-Palestine statement was removed from her acceptance speech, prompting multiple critic resignations.
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fromBustle
1 month ago

The 10 Best New Books Of March

Spring 2024 brings diverse literary releases across romance, literary fiction, and debuts, featuring works by established authors like Abby Jimenez and Rebecca Serle alongside promising new writers.
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fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

The Canada Reads 2026 longlist is here! | CBC Books

Canada Reads 2026 longlist presents diverse Canadian titles across genres, culminating in televised debates April 13–16 to select one book as the winner.
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1 month ago

Ben Markovits: I used to think any book concerned with people falling in love can't be very good'

Reading shaped formative years through detective stories, fantasy epics, and memoirs that provided companionship and escape during frequent moves and family transitions.
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fromThe Local France
2 months ago

Novelist Sansal elected to Academie Francaise after prison ordeal

Boualem Sansal, recently freed from Algerian imprisonment, was elected a lifetime member of the Académie Française.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Julian Barnes' playful new book is also his 'official departure'

An aging writer confronts mortality, memory, and repetition while considering retirement and revisiting past relationships through fiction blending autobiography and invention.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Here's how you can get a Heated Rivalry audiobook at Toronto Public Library | CBC News

Toronto Public Library offers the 'Heated Rivalry' audiobook with no waitlist by buying multi-user digital licenses and renewing them as demand exceeds limits.
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fromThe Walrus
2 months ago

Two Poems | The Walrus

A widow keeps her late husband's underpants as haunting, domestic relics while a ghostly presence from him recedes as she starts intimacy with someone new.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

There is a sense of things careening towards a head': TS Eliot prize winner Karen Solie

Karen Solie's work confronts ecological and social harms directly, refusing to aestheticize suffering while insisting art must keep attention and counteract distraction.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Rebel English Academy by Mohammed Hanif review a sure-fire Booker contender

Dark, irony-soaked comedy and farce expose Pakistan's political repression, religious hypocrisy, and violence with subversive, satirical imagination.
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fromEsquire
2 months ago

George Saunders Wants a Good Death

George Saunders' novel Vigil centers on mortality and a CEO's final night, and contemplating death energizes him rather than obsesses him.
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2 months ago

Vigil by George Saunders review will a world-wrecking oil tycoon repent?

A spectral death doula confronts an unrepentant, fossil-fuel–profiting oil tycoon in a liminal afterlife, forcing moral reckoning over climate-denial harms.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes's best fiction ranked!

Duffy, The Porcupine and The Lemon Table deliver a bisexual private-eye crime caper, a savage satire of a collapsed communist regime, and stories about ageing.
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1 month ago

Rachel Reid, the unassuming author of Heated Rivalry' whose universe has taken on a life of its own

Rachel Reid turned niche queer 'hockey smut' romance into a mass phenomenon with the Game Changers series and its HBO adaptation, selling over 650,000 copies.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

A Debut Novel About the Quest for Eternal Youth

The boundary between responsible adult and dependent child has frayed as caregivers flail through midlife while youth confront a crumbling, dishonest world.
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