BookMooch
"Give books away. Get books you want."
BookNinja
Books in Canada
Bookstore Tourism and the Bookstore Tourism blog (American, but here is a 2005 entry on a visit to Toronto)
Broken Pencil
Toronto-based magazine dedicated to zines, underground culture, and independent arts
Canadian Architexts
Essays on Literature and Architecture in Canada, 1759-2005
Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review.
The website for this scholarly journal contains an endex of each issue and abstracts of many of its published articles. (see the Imagining Toronto Library for more relevant scholarly journals)
City of Toronto Book Awards
The Toronto Book Awards were established in 1974 to honour writing evocative of Toronto. A complete list of winners is available here.
(The) Danforth Review
Electronic literary magazine. Fiction, non-fiction, interviews, and literary reviews. Includes much Toronto content but also directs its gaze elsewhere.
Descant
A quarterly journal publishing contemporary writing and visual art.
Diaspora Dialogues
"Diaspora Dialogues commissions established writers, poets and playwrights to create new work sets in Toronto. Diaspora Dialogues also encourages emerging voices through open calls for submissions and publishing and mentoring programs. A multidisciplinary performance series brings these writers and artists to audiences in their community and across the broad Toronto community."
54East
"The magazine that moves". Focused on Scarborough culture, architecture, history, and narratives. Back issues are available to download and read.
Geist
"Canadian ideas, Canadian culture". Literary magazine.
GraemeParry.com
Graeme Parry's maps and Toronto laneway tours.
HisTORicity: Toronto Then and Now (Toronto Public Library)
I Heard a Story About Yorkville
An electronic archive of 1960s-era Yorkville
Imagine A Toronto ... Strategies for a Creative City
Kiss Machine
"A conga line of arts & culture"
Liminal City
A journal of urban exploration, spatial excavation, and unceasing transformation.
Local Ruins
Jennifer Burns' photographic record of abandoned and reclaimed buildings in Toronto.
Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy at the Toronto Public Library
[murmur] Toronto
[murmur] is an ongoing "audio archive project" devoted to collecting stories told by Torontonians. [murmur] beachheads have been established throughout Toronto's Annex, Kensington Market, and along Spadina.
Palace of Purification (Marc Ngui's comic about the R.C. Harris water filtration plant in Toronto)
Place and Location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics III
(proceedings of the 2003 conference, Estonian Academy of Arts; click here to read a .pdf version of Nancy Burke's paper, "Canadian Urban Space as Portrayed in Selected Fiction and Non-fiction")
Poetics.ca
PoetryReviews.ca
PoetryReviews.ca is dedicated to reviewing poetry books/chapbooks by Canadian authors. National in focus, but has Toronto-based contributors.
Reading Toronto
Reading Toronto, produced and edited by architect Robert Oulette and supported by a wide variety of contributors, is an online community "dedicated to the design, culture, and politics that shape our city." Part of the Reading Cities initiative.
Spacing Magazine
Toronto Poetry Slam
Toronto Psychogeography Society
The Toronto Psychogeography Society is a loose agglomeration of people who explore Toronto as "flaneurs, explorers, and walkers." The Society's blog is a highly worthwhile read.