Readings

The Internet as Cabinet of Wonders: In Conversation With Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson’s Smarter Than You Think is something long overdue: a book that gets excited about the internet’s possibilities—for social life, for creativity, for thought—and how we’re already working them into our daily lives.

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.)