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The west end just got a cute new children’s bookstore
Nuts and Shells is a cozy, earthy space where kids can read after school
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Culture
“I didn’t want my mother as my literary critic”: Margaret Atwood’s daughter, Jess Gibson, on her debut story collection
The fiction writer and art historian talks late-in-life confidence, sparse prose and being a Taurus
Culture
Five minutes with 2025 Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa
The author of
Pick a Colour
talks about her historic win, training as a boxer and whether having a boyfriend is embarrassing
Culture
“I was a goth in ’90s Toronto, and that scene inspires everything I write”: Mona Awad on her new novel,
We Love You, Bunny
The author talks dark humour, being an outsider in the Ivy League and receiving the CanLit torch from Margaret Atwood
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Culture
“The moment a writer starts a piece, they already know it’s a failure”: Miriam Toews on her new memoir,
A Truce That Is Not Peace
The author of
Women Talking
talks small-town oppression, the search for reasons to write and what motivated her first foray into the memoir genre
Culture
“Toronto is my obsession”: André Alexis on his new short story collection,
Other Worlds
The author talks about honouring his parents through writing, the beauty of his adopted home and what it means to behave “Canadian”
Culture
What to see, do, hear and read in Toronto this March
A groundbreaking electronic group’s retrospective, a musical tour behind the lyrics of “American Pie,” lessons in political rage from a talking crow, and more
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Culture
“Pierre Poilievre needs to be careful with his rhetoric”: Carol Off on her new book,
At a Loss for Words
The former CBC Radio host discusses the language of politics, the rise of populism and what sets Canada apart from the US
Culture
“The rest of the country is waking up to what First Nations people have always known”: Tanya Talaga on her new book,
The Knowing
The reporter and author discusses the ongoing harms of residential schools, the importance of Indigenous representation and what needs to change to address colonialism in Canada
Culture
“Christianity was a radical, socialist, queer idea from the get-go”: A Q&A with Anthony Oliveira on his biblical new novel,
Dayspring
The comic book writer and author talks growing up queer under Catholicism, finding humour in the Bible and learning self-acceptance from
X-Men
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“I’ve been at every home game since 1995”: Raptors Superfan Nav Bhatia on his new memoir
Toronto’s number one basketball fan talks receiving an NBA championship ring, the upcoming movie about his life and befriending A-listers like Vince Carter and Drake
Culture
Twenty-one summer reading recommendations from booksellers
Including Rachel Cusk's latest, the
Autopsy of a Boring Wife
sequel and a guide to tackling the climate crisis
Culture
Novelist Ashley Audrain is the buzziest thing in literature
Her debut book,
The Push,
out this month, has already been snapped up by Hollywood
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Culture
Eleven Toronto bookstores doing delivery—plus their quarantine reading recommendations
More self-isolation content to sink your teeth into
Shopping
A look at Type Books’ dreamy new Junction location
The beloved bookstore has opened another shop at Dundas and Keele
Life
What books did people want Toronto Public Library to ban?
Another year of people complaining about library books
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Life
Q&A: Sue-Ann Levy, the
Toronto Sun
’s most notorious columnist, whose new book comes out today
A conversation with with the veteran columnist and self-professed shit disturber
Culture
A chat with Margaret Atwood, a dazzling new ballet and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 9
City News
Four things we learned from
Uncontrollable
, Mark Towhey’s book about Rob Ford
Rob Ford's daily "sandwich run," and other revelations
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Domestic disturbance
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is her most blistering social critique since
The Handmaid’s Tale
Culture
Relive Motown’s golden years, buy a bunch of books and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of September 21
Culture
Boys Don’t Cry: Craig Davidson’s testosterone-jacked horror novels examine what it means to be a man
Craig Davidson’s fiction is a kind of literary man cave: in every book, he cracks open a space to examine the guyest of guy...
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Magical Mystery Tour: a map of Toronto’s fictional murders
Dead bodies are turning up all over the fictional cityscape. We’ve mapped out the grisliest murders in 10 titles Dead Politician...
Discover the surprising story of Wonder Woman’s feminist, polygamist creator
The Secret History of Wonder Woman , the new book by Harvard history prof and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore , is much more...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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