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The book chain's Annex flagship winds down after a 38-year run.
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Jamie Bradburn
Nominated for: sending women writers "down the hall."
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Natalie Zina Walschots • Illustration by Jeremy Kai
The Yonge-Dundas-area landmark is shutting down after 33 years.
By
Steve Kupferman
The Toronto International Antiquarian Book Fair is more dazzling than dusty.
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Natalie Zina Walschots • Photos by Corbin Smith
Gay artist and activist Will Munro's life ended too soon. A new book tells his story through the eyes of those who knew him.
By
Kevin Scott
The 50-year-old writer and musician's latest book, Keon and Me, may be his most personal to date.
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Joshua Kloke (Guest Contributor)
Emily Pohl-Weary's new novel, Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl, is the story of a teenage girl dealing with both sudden fame and lycanthropy.
By
Chris Dart
Digital versions of popular magazines are free for the taking on TPL's website.
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Steve Kupferman
At the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library's first-ever Small Press Fair, Canada's small publishers showed attendees that print is not dead.
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Natalie Zina Walschots • Photos by Corbin Smith
Here's one way of prolonging the lives of urban payphones.
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Steve Kupferman
Five works made the shortlist for the 39th edition of the annual Toronto Book Awards.
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Steve Kupferman
Pop-culture essayist Chuck Klosterman preached to his choir at the Gladstone Hotel.
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Jessica Bloom • Photo by Lodoe Laura Haines-Wangda
Toronto Public Library has revealed the titles of items people complained about in 2012.
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Steve Kupferman
When Frank O'Connor launched his candy chain a century ago, he saw its ideals embodied in the War of 1812 heroine.
By
Jamie Bradburn
In Meet Grindr, author Jaime Woo writes that the gay hookup app doesn't get the respect it deserves.
By
Chris Dart
The best of the best in automatically dispensed goods.
By
Terri Coles
One of Toronto's greatest book lovers, Nicholas Hoare, is retiring.
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Hamutal Dotan • Photo by Dean Bradley
A new book by longtime columnist Edward Keenan suggests diversity is Toronto's strength, and engagement its saviour.
By
David Demchuk
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