Special features

How the 'Greatest Literature' choices were made
  • Editor Eric's
     Criteria

Science Fiction: the history and problems of trying to define it
  • What Counts
    as SF?

Most of what you read in English was not written in English. Does it matter which translation you read? How do you choose the best one?
  • Translations

What's the Greatest Literature of All Time?
Editor Eric's famous list of the 1,000 greatest literary works in the world—from 2000 BCE to 2000 CE, from Gilgamesh to Get Shorty, from Othello to Goodnight Desdemona.  
                    • The Great Lit pages

Now with over 250 commentaries. Recently added:
John Steinbeck  •  Tristram Shandy  •  A Christmas Carol  •  I, Claudius  •  Robert Graves  •  Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde  •  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow  •  Washington Irving  •  The Mill on the Floss  •  The Murders in the Rue Morgue  •  Buddenbrooks  •  Charlotte and Emily Brontλ  •  Jane Eyre  •  Wuthering Heights  •  Thomas Mann  • Death in Venice  • Kaye Gibbons  •  Ellen Foster  • Dracula  •  Bram Stoker  •  On the Beach  •  Raymond Chandler  •  The Big Sleep  •  Nevil Shute  •  The Little Foxes
                     • Selected Authors
                     • Selected Works

NEW CONTEST!
IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!

Many writers have put  thinly disguised versions of themselves in their works. Can you name the fictional counterparts of the authors in this contest?
Name them and WIN the books! 

• New contest #20
• Previous answers: Contest #19

Movies for Book Lovers
Guide to over 90 films, from the silly to the authentic, based on the greatest literature.
• The Movie pages

The Greatest Canadian
Literature of All Time
A separate database of the best from the great white north.
• The CanLit pages

The Greatest SF of All Time
The 200 greatest works of speculative and science fiction ever published.
• The SF pages

Aliens?

Messages from beyond? UFOs? Miracle cures?
Use critical thinking to find the truth about extraordinary claims.
• Editor Eric's
   guide to
   modern
   skepticism

Toronto Reads
Eric's reviews of current books, as published in his monthly column in the Town Crier community newspapers.

Recent reviews:
Coureurs De Bois  •  King John of Canada  •  The Girls Who Saw Everything  •  Pink Icing  •  Cut to the Quick  •  A Deserter's Tale  •  Greener Than Eden  •  The Uninvited Guest
            • The Toronto Reads pages

The Great Unsolvable Mysteries of Modern Life

The important questions of life, like:
Why can't you lick your elbow?
Why do guys have nipples?

• New mysteries periodically

The Unknown Beatles?
Has the myth of their breakup in 1970 kept you
from appreciating their later recordings?
• The Beatles 1970-2002.
   

Editor Eric is also known as Eric McMillan, a writer, editor and publisher based in Toronto.
He is also chair of Skeptics Canada—Society for Critical Inquiry

Eric says, "CLICK HERE TO SEE A PICTURE OF MOI."