Readings

A Murder on Yonge Street: The Death of Emanuel Jaques

Christie Blatchford and Anthony de Sa on the 1977 Toronto murder of 12-year-old Emanuel Jaques, the subject of de Sa's new novel, Kicking the Sky, and the first trial ever covered by the award-winning crime reporter.

||Caraid O’Brien, who every Bloomsday performs Molly Bloom's monologue for Radio Bloomsday, in her Ulysses-papered bedroom.
The Odyssey of A Novel: From the Dublin of Joyce to Wayne Johnston's St. John's

The character of Leopold Bloom, the wonderful depictions of Dublin—a novelist vows to do for St. John’s, Newfoundland, what Joyce's Ulysses did for Dublin. (Stephen’s barely bearable soliloquies notwithstanding.)

All the Literary Tough Guys Are Wimps

To read his latest novel, Cataract City, you’d think that Craig Davidson was a man’s man. He’s not, but like all guys—even the meek and intellectual—he’s fascinated by them, and maybe (like this writer) a little jealous.

Quebec Is Not So Secular

Parti Québécois’s Charter of Values is being sold as a score for secularism. A recent study, however, shows that Quebec is far more religious than widely assumed—and that the charter’s values might be at odds with those of the province.