Even More to Enjoy in Globe Focus
Now there is even more exciting and thought-provoking content in Focus than ever before!

That's because our revamped Books section has become part of Globe Focus, giving it an even larger audience in this well-read and highly regarded section.

In its new home, Books continues to offer Canadians one of the world's finest newspaper book sections, and is enhanced with content from our exciting new Books website, which also launched recently.

To learn more, see our related Newspaper and Digital What's New pages.




Where Thoughtful Canadians Turn for Canada's Most Respected In-Depth Reporting
Globe Focus takes readers behind the news and presents thoughtful, in-depth investigations into the week's headlines or other areas of interest. This award-winning Saturday section delivers compelling, entertaining and engaging journalism--all when readers have the time to enjoy it most.

You can think of Globe Focus as a weekly magazine--except that it appears in newsprint. Despite this fact, Focus journalists and editors approach stories with the same discipline and intensity that magazine content creators do. Journalistic colour, revealing photography, context and, where relevant, humour, all help readers absorb the topics Focus covers--as well as the advertising that's a part of this acclaimed section.

With a readership pretty much split evenly between men and women, Focus is an ideal place to reach a broad, general audience that's concerned with "big picture" issues and is active in the community.
Globe Focus covers the big topics that affect us all as well as stories that have made headlines during the week but warrant a deeper look.

Focus also engages readers with a Science and Ideas section that features extended coverage of environmental issues and, starting Jan. 10, our revamped Books section.

Favourite Focus writers and columnists include:
  
 
  • Mike Kesteron, who reviews "the week in quotes" and Phil Jackman, who contributes Under the Radar, which looks at stories that may have been overlooked during the previous week's news cycle but are worth considering all the same. Both these features will appear on Page 2 of the section.
  • Doug Saunders, whose world-affairs column, Reckoning, runs every week.
  • John Allemang, whose column Poetic Justice appears runs every week.
  • Mark Kingwell and Evan Solomon, who contribute columns to Focus' new Trends and Ideas section every week.
  • Laura Penny, Dorothy Woodend, Patricia Robertson and Camilla Gibb, each of whom writes about current affairs once a month.
  • Anne McIlroy, whose science column, Spectrum, appears every other
    week.
  • Victor Dwyer whose Consumer Watch column appears once a month.
Contributors and columnists to Globe Books include:
  • Martin Levin, who offers book reviews and opinion on literary matters every Saturday.
  • H.J. Kirchhoff, whose paperbacks and audiobooks column appears every Saturday.
  • Margaret Cannon, who reviews mystery books and thrillers every second Saturday, and for other seasonal issues.
  • Susan Perren, who reviews children's book every second Saturday, including three issues a year with specific children's books sections.
  • Fraser Simpson, whose crossword enjoys legions of fans.
  • Warren Clements, whose Challenge column encourages plenty of reader submissions.
A New Home for an Old Favourite
Judith Timson, whose column about personal affairs previously appeared here once a month, now appears every second Tuesday in Globe Life.