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A writer of immense talent, Auster’s legacy bequeaths the power of imagination and the inexhaustible possibilities of language.

In 1985, after seventeen New York publishers had rejected City of Glass, the lead novella in The New York Trilogy, it was published by Sun and Moon Press in San Francisco. The other two novellas, Ghosts and The Locked Room, came out the next year. Paul Auster was thirty-eight. Al...

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Why do we use popular metaphorical expressions like "under the weather' and more? Here are three fun origin stories and meanings behind commonly used idioms in English.

The award-winning novelist says he’s writing only poetry at the moment and his new collection has an ‘elegiac tone’.

If you love poetry, watch for these books coming out in the first half of 2024.

Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from March 31-April 6, 2024.

The storied Canadian writer’s new book is “A Year of Last Things” - his readers have been waiting for it for almost 20 years.

Michael Ondaatje’s latest collection is impossibly good. It is the work of a mature poet at the zenith of his talent. T. S. Eliot wrote, “The mature poet, in the operations of his mind, works like the chemist. He is aware, not that he wants to say

The author of The English Patient returns to poetry with a valedictory collection that is at home with the unknown and the romance of the incomplete