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Joseph Boyden and Rawi Hage of Montreal are among five finalists announced Monday for the $50,000 Giller Prize for Canadian fiction.

A rare treasure from an ancient Islamic dynasty sold for more than $6 million Cdn at a London auction on Tuesday.

Toronto record label Arts &Crafts, the company behind popular Canadian acts such as Feist, Broken Social Scene and Stars, has launched a tiny satellite operation in Mexico City.

Known for making household names of British artists like Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin, influential collector Charles Saatchi has turned his sights on contemporary Chinese art for the much anticipated reopening of his namesake gallery in London.

Comments from the top member of the Swedish Academy that American writers are too insular and ignorant to compete with European writing continue to reverberate on this side of the Atlantic.