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New book explores how Canadian music – and the communities around it – hit the information highway

Cam Gordon’s Track Changes explores the ripple effects of homegrown projects

Author Cam Gordon Photos provided by author

Author Cam Gordon has spent much of the past three decades writing about music.

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Author Cam Gordon Photos provided by author

Author Cam Gordon has spent much of the past three decades writing about music.

New book explores how Canadian music – and the communities around it – hit the information highway

4 min read

4 hours ago

Press images from the book Even the Good Girls will Cry.
Photo 40: Self-portrait in bedroom of haunted house, New Orleans, 1996.
© Melissa Auf der Maur
1996, B&W, Black & White, Melissa Auf der Maur, New Orleans, Reaching out, bedroom, black and white, self-portrait

Press images from the book Even the Good Girls will Cry.
Photo 40: Self-portrait in bedroom of haunted house, New Orleans, 1996.
© Melissa Auf der Maur
1996, B&W, Black & White, Melissa Auf der Maur, New Orleans, Reaching out, bedroom, black and white, self-portrait

Melissa Auf der Maur’s nineties rock memoir revisits the ‘last analog decade’

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Books on the shelves

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of March 14

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Books we’re reading and loving in March

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March 10, 2026

Katie Kitamura, author of "Audition", poses for a photograph, during a photocall for the 6 shortlisted authors for the Booker Prize, in London, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Katie Kitamura, author of "Audition", poses for a photograph, during a photocall for the 6 shortlisted authors for the Booker Prize, in London, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Amanda Leduc and Katie Kitamura among 15 authors longlisted for Carol Shields Prize

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March 6, 2026

This image released by Crave shows Hudson Williams, left, and Connor Storrie in a scene from "Heated Rivalry." (Crave via AP)

This image released by Crave shows Hudson Williams, left, and Connor Storrie in a scene from "Heated Rivalry." (Crave via AP)

Annabel Lyon’s novel The Golden Mean gets boost after Netflix deal

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March 6, 2026

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Remember paperbacks that fit in your pocket? Indigo’s trying to bring them back

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March 6, 2026

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Books on the shelves

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of March 7

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March 5, 2026

Spring books preview: 39 titles to add to your reading list

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March 3, 2026

FILE - Christina Applegate appears at the Annual Backstage at the Geffen Gala in Los Angeles on March 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

FILE - Christina Applegate appears at the Annual Backstage at the Geffen Gala in Los Angeles on March 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

Christina Applegate unleashes raw, probing memoir ‘You with the Sad Eyes’

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March 3, 2026

Author Rachel Reid is seen in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Caleb Latreille (Mandatory Credit)

Author Rachel Reid is seen in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Caleb Latreille (Mandatory Credit)

Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid speaks out against N.S. arts cuts: ‘The arts are why I live in Nova Scotia’

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February 27, 2026

Province House, home of the Nova Scotia Legislature, on Granville Street in Halifax. The province cut more than $130-million in grants this week across a variety of departments.

Province House, home of the Nova Scotia Legislature, on Granville Street in Halifax. The province cut more than $130-million in grants this week across a variety of departments.

Nova Scotia budget cuts publishing grant in blow to sector

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February 27, 2026

Books on the shelves

Books on the shelves

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of February 28

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February 26, 2026

Feature crop of Cabin book cover.

Feature crop of Cabin book cover.

Books we’re reading and loving in February

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February 24, 2026

Author Rachel Reid is seen in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Caleb Latreille (Mandatory Credit)

Author Rachel Reid is seen in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Caleb Latreille (Mandatory Credit)

Author Rachel Reid postpones release of Heated Rivalry sequel Unrivaled due to health reasons

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February 24, 2026

Adele Parks at home in Guildford for The Graduate magazine.

Adele Parks at home in Guildford for The Graduate magazine.

Adele Parks reflects on loss, literature and the fight to keep reading alive

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February 20, 2026

FILE - Hudson Williams arrives at the 83rd Golden Globes, Jan. 11, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Hudson Williams arrives at the 83rd Golden Globes, Jan. 11, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Kat Sandler play Yaga sells out after Heated Rivalry star cast in upcoming TV adaptation

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February 20, 2026

How science has influenced the life, world view and work of Margaret Atwood

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February 20, 2026

Books on the shelves

Books on the shelves

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of February 21

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February 19, 2026

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BLAIS 01/OCT/24/2000-Marie-Claire Blais french writer. (DIGITAL CAMERA IMAGE)Photographer; Andre Pichette

Soifs, the monumental literary project by Marie-Claire Blais, now fully translated into English

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February 18, 2026

Author Zak Jones Photos by Carmen Cheung

Author Zak Jones Photos by Carmen Cheung

Fancy Gap is a startling study of intergenerational trauma

Emily M. Keeler

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February 18, 2026

FILE - American ships burn during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - American ships burn during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo, File)

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Book review: After decades without answers, a writer learns her family were Nazi spies

John Ibbitson

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February 13, 2026

Gisele Pelicot in Paris, France 27.01.2026

Gisele Pelicot in Paris, France 27.01.2026

‘I’m still standing’: Gisèle Pelicot shares her story a year after shocking sexual-assault trial

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February 13, 2026

Karen Solie’s most recent collection won a Governor-General’s Literary Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Karen Solie’s most recent collection won a Governor-General’s Literary Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Karen Solie’s poetic imagination continues to return to the places she’s left

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February 13, 2026

Ten tantalizing mysteries you won’t want to put down

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February 13, 2026

Books on the shelves

Books on the shelves

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of February 14

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February 10, 2026

FILE - Author George Saunders poses for a portrait on Aug. 20, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

FILE - Author George Saunders poses for a portrait on Aug. 20, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

In his new novel, Vigil, George Saunders explores deathbed comfort and ‘idiot compassion’

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February 10, 2026

Cropped book cover of Chuck Klosterman's Football

Cropped book cover of Chuck Klosterman's Football

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Chuck Klosterman’s Football looks at a sport on the verge of decline

Brad Wheeler

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February 8, 2026

Robert Redford's ski outfit in a 1966 article in a Japanese magazine, one of the illustrations in It's Snowing!: Fashion, Art, Design and Winter Sports.

Robert Redford's ski outfit in a 1966 article in a Japanese magazine, one of the illustrations in It's Snowing!: Fashion, Art, Design and Winter Sports.

Get through winter in style with the latest design and fashion books

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February 6, 2026

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Lindsay Wong Author

Lindsay Wong reflects on rage, grief, and ghosts

Lindsay Wong

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