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TRB Launch Party & WOTS!
Here are a few snapshots from The Toronto Review of Books Launch Party on September 20th, and our table at Word on the Street on September 25th. Thanks to all who joined us on both days! Special thanks also to Sarah Merekar, our official launch-party photographer, and to Brittany Pladek, craftsperson behind our stellar TRB…
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Cary Wolfe in Toronto
On February 2, 2011, Rice University Professor Cary Wolfe lectured in the Bulthaup Spring 2011 series at the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design on “Biopolitics, Biopower, and the (Nonhuman) Animal Body.” [audio:carywolfe.mp3]
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Robert Hullot-Kentor at Of Swallows Bookshop, Sept. 30
Of Swallows Bookshop says: Please join us on Friday September 30 for an evening with distinguished cultural critic (Things Beyond Resemblance) and editor-translator (Aesthetic Theory, Current of Music) Robert Hullot-Kentor, Chair of the Program in Critical Theory and the Arts, at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. In the final session of our…
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Public Lecture: “The Reader’s Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration”
The first talk in the Toronto Centre for the Book 2011-12 lecture series is today: Bill Sherman (University of York) “The Reader’s Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration” In Association with Book and Media Studies, St. Michael’s College, and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Friday, 23 September, 4:15 p.m. St. Michael’s College, 100 St.…
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Finalists for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize announced in Toronto
It wasn’t long ago that the Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize was in jeopardy – longtime sponsor Nereus Financial dropped out in 2008 – but in May the Writers’ Trust announced a new partnership with former lieutenant-governor of Ontario Hilary Weston. The non-fiction has been renamed to reflect its new sponsor, and the first finalists for the…
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“No Family Life”: Claire Fontaine at Air de Paris
A review of Claire Fontaine’s “No Family Life,” at the Parisian gallery Air de Paris from February 11th to March 19th, 2011.
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Anna Karenina, her Android, the Aliens and the Train
A review of Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters. Quirk Books, 2010.
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You Ask Me Whether I Approve of Violence?
A review of three new documentaries, Better this World, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, and The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.
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Just Now Soba
A review of Soba Canada’s Soba Tuesday at Ichiriki Restaurant, 120 Bloor Street East, Toronto.
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Toronto Twitter Scene
A review of Twitter in Toronto by @shawnmicallef, author of Stroll, and the creator of @rebelmayor.
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From the Windows the Alley
A poem by Damian Rogers, author of Paper Radio. Illustrated by Danny Zabbal.
