Alex Johnston’s warm, brilliant, heartbreaking memoir about infertility is out now – order it from …
Inconceivable
Break Them Up
It’s shocking to me how little attention the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and …
Grand Strategery
The Canada Council is in the midst of devising a five-year strategic plan that will …
How to Be a Disaster
I’ve always believed it’s imperative that a book publisher grow. Not everyone agrees. Some houses …
Living With Live Wires
I sometimes wish I’d grown up in a more interesting family, the kind with ancestors …
Ted Lasso, Meet Your Father
Last week Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal had this to say about “Ted …
History and le Carré
I’ve long believed the Nobel committee should bestow its laurel, at least once, on a …
This Dangerous Business
One of the things they never tell you about the book business is how much …
My Interview with Santa
About a decade ago, in the midst of the financial crisis, I was editing Maclean’s …
Best of the Best of ’20
Everyone’s publishing lists their best books of the pandemic year. We’ve rounded up the roundups …