David Gilmour says when students leave his class on the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, he hopes they will “run down the street and buy Chekhov.” But when students want to read female authors ...

It’s the same thing. And my book The Film Club is about teaching my son about life and the world through film.” The entirety of Gilmour’s comments are a must-read — you can find them all here.

The Globe contacted Gilmour – whose novel Extraordinary has been long-listed for the 2013 Giller Prize – for his comments on the Hazlitt fallout. People are calling you a sexist for refusing ...