Alberto Manguel, who through his wise and compassionate love of books became a mainstay of Canada's literary conversation, suddenly vanished from the country two years ago. He sold his Toronto house ...

One of the most delightful books I read this past year was “The Library at Night,” a series of essays on the “idea” of the library through time and place, from ancient Alexandria to the Web, with ...

or those of us who are serious about books and literature, reading amounts to an almost sacred act. Many famous authors have extolled the pleasures of the printed page, of course, but to my mind none ...

Alberto Manguel, translator and critic, is Canada’s best, and perhaps only, practitioner of that critical genre termed by Anatole France 'the adventures of the sensitive soul among masterpieces' You ...

“I don’t own any of that rubbish,” Alberto Manguel sniffs in regard to iPhones and BlackBerrys and other “intrusive” devices. However, as one of the world’s most famously prodigious readers, the ...

Alberto Manguel has long since taken the title -- once held by Jorge Luis Borges-- of the bookworm’s bookworm. He is the voice of the species, or the closest thing we have to a celebrity at any rate.

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It hasn’t worked out well for the curious. Pandora wondered what was in the jar and unleashed all the woes of humanity; Eve wondered what the fruit tasted like and caused the fall of man; the cat just ...

"Why", "what" and "how" are perhaps the most basic questions of all. Big questions consume us as humans: Why is there evil? What does love mean? How might we get to the moon? Human curiosity has given ...