Staff Pick: John Fowles’ The Tree
He takes to task the Victorian obsession with categorizing, with trying to tame the wild, and makes a case for experiencing nature, for "green chaos."
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Nuit Blanche Toronto: Finding Inspiration After the Sun Goes Down
My feelings have swung from amazement to irritation and back again. I've been bemused and bored. I've been caught up in curious crowds, and I've loathed the drunken hordes.
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The Novella is Alive and Well and Living in Canada
While writers have never stopped writing short forms of fiction, Quattro is to be commended for giving this literary form some formal shape and focus.
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Home Away from Home: Philip Graham’s The Moon, Come to Earth
I felt as if I were with this family every step of the way, through every day-to-day adventure, every settling-in disaster, as they walked that fine line between fitting in and remaining on the outside.
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Father, Son, and Silver Screen: David Gilmour’s The Film Club
With a novelist's attention to detail and a film buff's ear for dialogue, this is a gripping tale of a father and son.
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Linked by Words: Uncovering a Piece of Family History
In these hand-written excerpts and notes, tracking his reading habits in those last few years, I've been given a sudden and surprising connection to my past.
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Mythbusting: An Inside Look at the Last Days of the Moveable Feast
Morley Callaghan's That Summer In Paris, written in 1962, reveals Hemingway's and Fitzgerald's true nature, and offers an insider's view of the events in Paris, in the summer of 1929.
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Returning to Ilium: Unlatching the Vonnegut Vault
A fan will welcome this glimpse into the mind of the young Vonnegut.
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Staff Pick: Graham Greene’s The Captain and the Enemy
Truth and lies, family and belonging are all woven together the Graham Greene way.
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A Life Laid Bare
Far from being a Gumpian set of coincidences, Logan's life follows its own internal logic.
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