The spark for Waubgeshig Rice's novel Moon of the Crusted Snow ignited in 2003 during a massive power outage that darkened Ontario and parts of the other U.S. "I was living in Toronto at the time, but on that day I was back on the reserve
The National Gallery of Canada has purchased a painting that was once thought lost to the art world. The Gallery announced its acquisition of At the Lunch Table, a 1901 painting by the Austrian painter Carl Moll, on Thursday afternoon in a media release. The painting is
Here is John Rebus, the old lion in the winter of his life. His old colleagues are gone. His old snitches are gone. Even his favourite seedy hangouts have become wine bars. He's off the police force. He's suffering from COPD and he's certainly not the physical
There is little doubt that the novel of this year in CanLit is Esi Edugyan's widely hailed Washington Black. This is the story of Washington Black, a slave child born into the brutal plantation system in Barbados, who is taken away from this cruelty by a
Rufus Wainwright headlines a contingent of 30 artists such as Bobby Bazini, Raffi, Steven Page, Leela Gilday and Lennie Gallant, from across a range of genres, as the ambitious NAC Presents concert series fleshes out the rest of its massive 2018-19 season. NAC presents will stage
If you remember the Great Canadian Theatre Company's Acoustic Waves series, you'll know that music has always played a big part in the 44-year-old theatre's programming. It looks like it's coming back in a big way with a co-pro by GCTC, CKCU-FM and CHUO-FM. They'll
Dionne Brand has always been an ambitious writer. Her novels and her collections of poetry are always thoughtful and complex. But she seems to have outdone herself this year with two new books; one called The Blue Clerk which has been nominated for a Governor General's
This has been a good year for Patrick deWitt. The movie version of his 2011 bestseller The Sisters Brothers has been given the Hollywood treatment starring some A-listers John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie even got a pretty decent review from The
Paul-André Fortier is a risk taker
If one of the intents of theatre – of any art, for that matter – is to give us entry into worlds we’d otherwise never inhabit, Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell succeeds splendidly. The world in this case is that of Mabel Hubbard Bell, who
