The Year of No Summer, the latest book by Halifax-based writer Rachel Lebowitz, examines a moment in time when a volcano exploded in the Pacific and the entire world was changed. It's a fascinating subject. She talks about the book and her writing in this edited
Nothing gets an archivist's heart beating quite like the arrival of that special document or that unique object that makes a direct and concrete connection to the past. It could be a map of the Yukon that shows the very beginning of the gold rush at
Djamila Ibrahim came to Ottawa in 1990 from Ethiopia and she went to high school and university here. Then she worked in the federal public service for several years before leaving to follow a lifelong passion for writing. Her first book, Things Are Good Now,
Of all the great things that have happened to Cherie Dimaline since her book The Marrow Thieves was published, the night at Rideau Hall when she accepted the Governor General's Award for Young Adult fiction stands out. Not for the award, although that was pretty sweet,
Alexandra Badzak just can't help it. She loves building things, but this time the director of the Ottawa Art Gallery has outdone herself. She has overseen a massive expansion of the gallery that is set to open to the public on April 28. The new $34
Vancouver-based choreographer Shay Kuebler, through his company Radical System Art, is known for his radical and extremely physical work that seeks to understand and communicate through the human form. It's something to see. His show Telemetry will be at the National Arts Centre this week,
The final trumpet has sounded on the National Gallery of Canada's bid to acquire Jacques-Louis David's 250 year old painting of Saint Jerome. Quebec's minister of culture has exercised her authority and says she will declare the painting to be part of Quebec's cultural heritage, a
In an unusual open letter, the National Gallery says its bid to purchase the Jacques-Louis David painting Saint Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment is in no way intended "to pre-empt efforts by museums in Quebec to purchase the work." This appears to be another
When Omar El Akkad was writing his bestselling book about a fictional civil war in a future America, he didn't have an agent or a publisher. "I didn't have any expectations that it would see the light of day." Well, that's sure changed. American War was the
John Ralston Saul was 27, he says, when his eyes were opened to the issues confronting the Indigenous peoples of this land. "I was typical of my generation," he said in an interview in advance of the spring edition of the Ottawa International Writers Festival which
