Karen McBride is just enjoying the ride. The young writer is on her first book tour with her first novel Crow Winter. She's been to places such as Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Kingston and Toronto and on Oct.29 she'll be at the Ottawa Writers Festival on
This is an anxious age. We worry about our climate. We worry about our jobs, our health, our finances and even our pets. But most of all we worry about our children. And that one never seems to stop. Jessica Westhead knows all about that. She's
You think you have a handle on the messy business of appropriation? Then you haven’t seen Kat Sandler’s quick-witted Bang Bang, now at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in a solid homegrown production. Consider this: Sandler, a white playwright with a taste for nuance, has written
What does a person do, who wants to write serious literary fiction and also chilling thrillers? If you are Naben Ruthnum you get a pen name. So far so good for Ruthnum. He's published two thrillers that are attracting a goodly amount of attention. Both are
With Split, which opened at the NAC on Thursday night, Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin wanted returned to the simplicity of the duo. So it’s ironic that the piece, while visually arresting, lacks the intimacy and emotional heat of her works for larger groups. Split features two
As a four year old kid, Andrew Ager used to have bad dreams about monsters. His nightmares were prompted because he was exposed to horror stories by his mother and sister. They were fascinated by Dracula and the Wolfman and the Mummy. Ager wasn't tormented for
One of the pressing problems of today is caring for disabled or frail elderly relatives. We trust that those who help us look after our loved ones are not coming into our lives with sinister motives. There are rare and frightening instances but fortunately there are
The journalist, speaker and human rights activist Sally Armstrong has been reporting on the struggle for female equality for three decades and for most of that time progress has been "glacial." "But lately, my heavens, look at Greta Thunberg, look at Malala Yousafzai, look at #MeToo
Alisa Klebanov started playing the violin at age three in Toronto. Her family had just arrived in Canada and her mother had seen an advertisment for a Suzuki method school. "She wanted me to have a hobby," Klebanov said. Alisa was born in Israel to Russian parents.
If a tree fell on Greenwood Island some time in the near future, every one would hear. After all, in Michael Christie's new novel, Greenwood Island is one of the last refuges of the primeval forest that has been destroyed by what is known as
