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“No, but I’ve seen the movie”: The great adaptation debate
Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children has already provided an epic’s worth of drama and it has yet to hit the screen; much the same could be said of Peter Jackson’s fraught...
View ArticleMordecai at McGill: Charles Foran on Richler; Adam Levin follows...
Charles Foran’s Mordecai: The Life & Times was one of those happy occasions, much more rare than you’d think, when biographer and subject are perfectly matched. The book won just about every award...
View ArticleQuite the emotional roller-coaster on Le Combat des livres Thursday
Wow! Emotions were running high on Le Combat des livres Thursday. My book – Heather O’Neill’s Lullabies for Little Criminals (La Ballade de Baby en francais) – was eliminated on Wednesday and I started...
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