By Margaret Atwood Short stories — very short, most are only a few pages. Many touch on themes of gender. Some of the best ones showcase Atwood’s needly humour, ranging

By Adam Gopnik Gopnik writes about his five years living in Paris. Somehow he managed to write about it without making me hate him. ..Mostly.

By Stephen Gould Fascinating stuff here. Stephen Gould is more often known for his natural history books aimed at casual readers (Bully for Brontosaurus and the like) — but this

By Atul Gawande Gawande succeeds at conveying the art that is medicine (that is much of science, really), the combination of knowledge, past experience and plain old gut feeling that

by Pete McCarthy McCarthy’s Eighth Rule of Travel is that you should never pass a bar with your name on it. So for that among other more complex reasons, off

By Guy Gavriel Kay Guy Gavriel Kay’s writing gets a little purple in spots and the drama can tend to melodrama. He’s good at both character and storyline creation, though,

By Neil Stephenson Who can resist a book starring a character named Hiro Protagonist? I’m normally kind of meh on Neal Stephenson. Some of his other books, while they have

By Sylvanus P. Thompson I once had a logic professor, the rumpled/ bespectacled/ round/ beaming English type, who announced in the first class of the term “it is my job

Edited by Lynn Crosbie I love Lynn Crosbie; she writes excellent book reviews that icily savage books she hates. Mostly I agree with her so they’re fun reading. No suckup,

by Diana Gabaldon Oh, this is fun stuff. There’s nothing highbrow or pretentious about Diana Gabaldon’s stuff, it’s just good, light, gripping historical fun. There’s a time every once in

by Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman is a wonderful writer. He makes English bend to his clever whims in ways that make me terribly jealous. But for a seemingly nice guy

by Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs died last April, shortly before her 90th birthday. I’m still sad. I really hoped she’d live forever. Ten years ago (!) when Citizens for Local

by Jim Munroe Jim Munroe’s a bit of an anarchist/anti-corporatist guy; he dropped Harper Collins to go out on his own and created No Media Kings. His books are cute,

by Barbara Gowdy In The white bone Gowdy, author of the short story that was turned into the surprisingly sympathetic necrophilia movie Kissed (We So Seldom Look on Love) puts

by Inga Muscio Inga Muscio does a great job hitting all the feminist-sexual high points (um. as it were.). As well as the good stuff, she covers rape, abortion, assault…