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Russell Smith

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Arts, Celebrity, Culture

Russell Smith was a columnist for The Globe and Mail. His most recent novel, Girl Crazy, is currently being adapted for cinema for New Real Films. He is a co-founder of the online men's magazine DailyXY.com.

Books

Girl Crazy, HarperCollins

Young Men, Anchor Canada

Men's Style: The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress, McClelland & Stewart

Latest articles

The evolution of poetry in the age of the Twitter rant

January 15, 2019

A new gory thriller from Quebec’s Patrick Senécal – sadly written at a Grade 11 level

January 8, 2019

Review: Yves Beauchemin’s The Accidental Education of Jerome Lupien is disappointing

December 26, 2018

The lost art of the perfect sentence

December 18, 2018

Here’s to another poetry plagiarism scandal – and here’s how to fix it

December 5, 2018

Where do we find the next great Canadian novel? Look to Quebec

November 28, 2018

Esi Edugyan’s Giller Prize win reflects a new taste for fabulism

November 20, 2018

Writers' Trust non-fiction winner All Things Consoled is a personal look into family dynamics and parental loss

November 13, 2018

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction winner Dear Evelyn explores the hardships of marriage in the 20th century

November 7, 2018

Monty Python star Michael Palin’s new book on British ship Erebus takes you to ye olde sea life

October 30, 2018

Why Governor General’s Literary Award winner The Red Word is a true dark horse pick

October 29, 2018

By picking Anna Burns’s Milkman, Man Booker Prize rewards the difficult over the popular

October 16, 2018

There will be no Nobel Prize in Literature this year. Should we even care?

October 10, 2018

The Giller Prize short list is remarkable, diverse and daring

October 2, 2018

Is an art project reconstructing the Berlin Wall provocative or offensive?

September 25, 2018

Fiction, at its core, is about telling other people’s stories

September 19, 2018

Canlit versus its scholars

September 13, 2018

Paint it black: The subversive story of Anish Kapoor’s man-eating art piece

September 7, 2018

Zadie Smith’s contentious new short story reminds of the nasty art of satire

When protest art is protested

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