Lebanon: No Going Back

Carolyn Marie Souaid remembers a country of promise and hope, but also a land of despair and ruins.

Where Good Books Come From, by Linda Leith. Part I: The Writer-Publisher Relationship

It might be that this relationship between writer and publisher is what is most in danger in the digital revolution.

Of Shakespeare, Anonymous, and Muriel Spark

"Shakespeare is – let us put it this way – the least English of English writers. The typical quality of the English is understatement, saying a little less than what you see. In contrast, Shakespeare tended toward the hyperbolic metaphor, and it would come to us as no surprise to learn that Shakespeare had been Italian, or Jewish, for instance." -- Jorge Luis Borges 1979

The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. National Portrait Gallery, London.

Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table, reviewed by Linda Leith

Linda Leith's review of Michael Ondaatje's great new novel, The Cat's Table in the Montreal Gazette.