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  • Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley on the joys of foul language and friendship

    NEW YORK (AP) — Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley play women brought together by letters in the new film “Wicked Little Letters” but their preferred means of communication is WhatsApp. With their husbands, they have a group chat with an unprintable name, inspired by the some of the foul language of their film. What do they write to each other?
  • Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men,' dies at 89

    SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89.
  • Renowned architect Moshe Safdie gifts archive and Habitat 67 condo unit to McGill

    MONTREAL - After more than 50 years designing buildings around the world, renowned Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie is donating his professional archive to the Montreal university where he got his start.
  • Six vice-presidents talk about job once considered invisible

    NEW YORK - After interviewing Dan Quayle in Arizona for his documentary on the vice presidency, filmmaker Jeffrey Roth was rushing to the airport to catch a flight to Wyoming, where he had an appointment with Dick Cheney the next morning.
  • Sir Harold Evans, crusading publisher and author, dies at 92

    NEW YORK - Sir Harold Evans, the charismatic publisher, author and muckraker who brought investigative moxie to the British press, newsmaking dash to the American book business through bestsellers like “Primary Colors” and synergetic buzz to all as author-publisher Tina Brown’s husband, has died. He was 92.
  • Blake Bailey's 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April

    NEW YORK - In the Fall 2012, as the willing subject of one of the most anticipated literary biographies in recent memory, Philip Roth joked that he had surrendered power over his own life to author Blake Bailey.
  • #MeToo prosecutors deploy experts early to thwart defence

    When his trial opens in the coming days, Harvey Weinstein’s defence team is expected to go on the offensive against the women who have accused him of rape and sexual assault, in part by questioning if they acted like victims afterward.
  • T.S. Eliot letters to muse to be unveiled after 60 years

    After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante Emily Hale will be unveiled this week, and scholars hope they will reveal the extent of a relationship that's been speculated about for decades.
  • Mike Downie says Secret Path Live was 'powerful' and he'd 'love to do it again'

    TORONTO - A brother of the late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie says a weekend benefit concert performance of his "Secret Path" album was a "powerful" show and he isn't ruling out making it an annual event, possibly in different cities.
  • Germany hands Israel thousands of Kafka confidant's papers

    BERLIN - German authorities on Tuesday handed over to Israel some 5,000 documents kept by a confidant of Franz Kafka, a trove whose plight could have been plucked from one of the author's surreal stories.

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