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Alberto Manguel
Columns
Yehuda Elberg: In Memoriam

A writer whose work is among the most important contributions to the literature of the Holocaust is forgotten by almost all.

Alberto Manguel
Columns
Neighbourhood of Letters

There are imaginary cities for scientists, vampires, lechers and even bad students—but what about writers?

Daniel Francis
Essays
Double Life

The poet John Glassco lived in disguise, masquerading as a member of the gentry while writing pornography and reinventing his past.

Alberto Manguel
Columns
A Brief History of Tags

A reflection on the complex and often inexplicable process of bibliographic categorizations.

Stephen Henighan
Columns
A Table in Paris

Stephen Henighan remembers Mavis Gallant, the original nomad of Canadian literature, who wrote some of Canada's finest fiction at Pablo Picasso's café table in Paris.

Alberto Manguel
Columns
Power to the Reader

"Since the beginning of time (the telling of which is also a story), we have known that words are dangerous creatures."

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