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English Newsmakers: 

• George E. Clarke comments on the recent performance of The Merchant of Venice at an Ontario private school in the CBC Radio: Metro Morning. 

• English professor Ian Lancashire turns to neuroscience to detect Alzheimer's disease by analyzing texts. Read more in Arts and Science News.

• Read an excerpt from Randy Boyagoda's Original Prin in The Globe and Mail. 

• "U of T's Lost River" read about Professor Andrea Most's course Ecocriticism in the Faculty of Arts & Science News.

• Read Chris Kelleher on "An American in the Promised Land (of Canada)" in the University Affairs. 

• "Ideas to Live by: A Conversation with Mari Ruti" by Tajja Isen and Philip Sayers in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

• Read Adam Hammond on "Why running a marathon is a terrible reason to travel" in The Globe and Mail. 

• "Even in Toronto, my daughters are growing up being assessed according to the colour of their skin" Randy Boyagoda's Op-Ed in The Globe and Mail. 

• "How a library card launched George Elliott Clarke's literary career" in CBC Atlantic.

• "Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibility" Read Ira Wells in the Globe & Mail.

• Read English Professor Tom Keymer on 'How to be a great Journal Editor" in the Times Higher.

• Read Mandy Pipher on consequences of devaluing a humanities degree in the Toronto Star.

• Professor of English and St. Mike's College Principal Randy Boyagoda on Canadian Cultural intangibles in the CBC News: The Current Review.

• English Professor Nick Mount captures Canada's literature boom in Arrival. Read more at Arts & Science News.

• Get tips from English graduate & instructor Elissa Gurman in Maclean's on creating University class schedule that won't destroy your soul.

• Read Dr. Mike Johnstone's first fiction publication "For you, endlessly" in the Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty)

• MA CRW Alumna Jesse Ruddock's debut novel Shot-Blue was reviewed by The New York Times.
  

• Professor Nick Mount explores the rise of our literary canon in the 1960s and argues we’ve moved beyond it to a better place. Read more abut his book Arrival: The Story of CanLit in The Toronto Star.
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