FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TORONTO (April 1, 2008) — The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2007 Imperial Oil Foundation Writing Contest. The contest is a much-anticipated part of TD Canadian Children's Book Week...
Harry Potter" actor has signed a deal to produce two albums under New York label VMA Records. A departure from his publicly known musical preferences, Radcliffe will try his hand at techno/Dutch pop style songs. Radcliffe began an infatuation with
By Robert Gottlieb Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962: The Wayward Bus / Burning Bright / Sweet Thursday / The Winter of Our Discontent / Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck The extraordinary thing about
By Robert Skidelsky Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz Making Globalization Work is the third of Joseph Stiglitz's popular, and populist, books. Like Jeffrey Sachs, Stiglitz is an economist turned preacher, one of a new breed of secular evangelists
By Alexander Stille Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano, translated from the Italian by Virginia Jewiss Last year, Italy seemed to wake up to the problem of the Camorra--the Neapolitan equivalent of the Mafia--in the form of 2,700 tons of garbage. On
By Raymond Bonner Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justicein Guantánamo Bay by Clive Stafford Smith The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind Detainee 002: The Case of David
By Elizabeth Drew The Democrats didn't expect so much pain. The assumption was that out of a patch of good candidates one would emerge to take on an inevitably weak Republican--the field was seen as lacking and George Bush as
By Andrew Butterfield Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 12-May 11, 2008. Nicolas Poussin has been studied and celebrated for more than three hundred years, and yet 'Poussin and Nature,'
By Colm Tóibín Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters by Hart Crane There are certain single volumes of American poetry, some of them first books or early books, which carry with them a special and spiritual power; they seem
By Stanley Wells Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer It is now over two hundred years since the discovery of a love letter written by William Shakespeare to his future bride, Ann (or Anne, or even Agnes) Hathaway. Along with it
It is expected to be announced today that an agreement between Warner Bros., JK Rowling and Akira Toriyama, the creator of "Dragon Ball," has been reached for the development of a "Harry Potter" anime TV series to air on ABC
As promised by the actor herself just last week, the first of three new official photos featuring Emma Watson has been posted to her web site. "Today's picture is the shot which Emma has chosen as the one to be
