New women's fiction prize to address 'gender imbalance' in North America
The large prize, worth CAD$150,000, is ‘a statement of belief in the brilliance of women’s writing’ in the US and Canada
February 2016
Top 10s
Top 10 books for the broken-hearted
If Valentine’s Day is an unwelcome reminder of what has become of your love life, you can find solace at the bookshop. Here are 10 literary highlights for the lovelorn
January 2010
Living in the memory
A celebration of the great writers who died in the past decade
July 2008
Carol Shields
'I don't believe in ordinary or extraordinary people, unless we are all extraordinary.'
April 2005
Capitol Hill Gored
Alex Heminsley on Sammy's Hill | Wilt in Nowhere | Carol Shields' Collected Stories
July 2004
Threads that bind
What the critics had to say about Carol Shields's posthumous collection of short stories, Peter Ackroyd's 12th novel and Ian Davidson's biography of Voltaire.
The consolation of words
Women reading, couples talking, writers writing... in elegant, elegiac stories, Carol Shields's characters keep despair at bay with all kinds of language
Reading beyond the fridge magnets
Carol Shields's short stories show depths some critics overlooked, says Hermione Lee.
December 2003
When I do count the clock
Carol Shields was working on a new book when she died in July. Here, we publish an exclusive extract from this unfinished novel, in which a Chicago poet contemplates the sonnet, family, and intimations of mortality
July 2003
To the light house
Rereading
Beautiful youth
A chronicler of everyday love
Book club
Pieces of weight
Orange winner dies, still engrossed in her books, at 68
Carol Shields
Carol Shields
Novelist Carol Shields dies
Book club
Untying the knot
Book club
Writing about a writer writing
June 2003
Book club
Heads for tales
John Mullan analyses a notable novel available in paperback as a service to reading groups. This month he is looking at Unless by Carol Shields. Week one: chapter headings
