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TRB Podcast: Allan Hepburn on Elizabeth Bowen’s Autobiographies
Professor Allan Hepburn, a noted scholar of literary modernism and head of English at McGill, spoke to the University of Toronto’s Department of English on Elizabeth Bowen’s Autobiographies last December. His talk was entitled, “A Young Writer Grown Old: Elizabeth Bowen’s Autobiographies.” Listen here: [audio:hepburn.mp3] Professor Hepburn included the following abstract for his talk: Autobiography…
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Book City Closure One More for the Archives
The Star is reporting that the Bloor West Village location of Book City will close, sad news that adds to the litany of recent bricks-and-mortar bookstore closures in Toronto. The article includes this interesting list of our city’s dearly departed by year: 2012 – Books for Business, off Bay St. on Adelaide St. W., in…
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The Enchantment of Video Captures the Joy of Books
We’re feeling quite charmed by this video, The Joy of Books, made for Type Books in Toronto by the Lowe Roche Agency: Clearly this is how books dance every night, but we suspect that not since the height of Victorian spirit photography have they been captured in such glorious motion.
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Coming Soon… TRB Issue Two!
We’re thrilled to announce that Issue Two of The Toronto Review of Books will be dashing in on the coattails of the new year. To mark the occasion, Good Readers, join us, the TRB staff and writers, on January 10 at Poetry Bar, 224 Augusta Ave., in Toronto’s Kensington Market. Along with an action- and…
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e-Reading – Wherefore, Why, and How: A TRB Symposium
Whether you feel naked without your mobile device, or you’re a bookworm who’s only hungry for paper, or if you couldn’t be more bored of all the standard fuss about e-reading, The Toronto Review of Books has a provocation in mind for you: I’m very pleased to announce that we’re collaborating with the University of…
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TRB Podcast: Stephen Mitchell’s Iliad for the 21st Century
[audio:mitchell.mp3] On October 13 at the University of Toronto’s Hart House, Stephen Mitchell spoke about his new translation of The Iliad, described in promotional material as the first translation based on the work of the preeminent Homeric scholar Martin L. West, whose edition of the original Greek identifies many passages that were added after…
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TRB Podcast: Issue One Author Podcasts Now Up!
Thanks to our marvelous podcast producer Allegra Young, we’ve posted recordings of our authors reading their first-issue pieces! If you like, listen here, on the Issue One article pages themselves (linked below), or subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Review Essays: Anna Karenina, her Android, the Aliens and the Train By Tim Ormond [audio:firstissue/ormond.mp3] …
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TRB Podcast: The Beginnings of Poetry, Virginia Jackson at the University of Toronto
On Friday, October 21, the UC Irvine Chair of Rhetoric and Communication Professor Virginia Jackson spoke at the University of Toronto on “The Beginnings of Poetry.” As the organizers of this fascinating talk said, Professor Jackson is one of the most exciting and innovative people writing about poetry in any field today. Prof. Jackson is…
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Ride the Cyclone at Theatre Passe Muraille: Saskatchewan Ghost Cabaret a Rollercoaster Hit
Ride the Cyclone, from Atomic Vaudeville. Written by Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell. Directed by Richmond & Britt Small. Until December 3 at Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson Ave. 416-504-7529 or artsboxoffice.ca The final recital of a newly dead troupe of teenage choristers is a rollercoaster of a ghost cabaret in Ride the Cyclone, which…
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TRB Podcast: Bill Sherman at the University of Toronto
On September 23, 2011, Bill Sherman, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies at the University of York, spoke at the Toronto Centre for the Book lecture series. His talk was entitled “The Reader’s Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration.” Listen here! [audio:Shermanlecture.mp3] Or read his abstract: The margins…
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Why TRB Why Now
An inaugural editorial on the goals of The Toronto Review of Books.
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TRB at Word on the Street
The TRB is excited to be at Word on the Street in Toronto this Sunday! As their website will tell you: The Word On The Street is a national celebration of literacy and the written word. On one extraordinary Sunday each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds…