Poet Steven Heighton on Writing, Making Music, and Literally Losing His Voice
The author of nineteen books explains why success won’t make you happy
Read MoreArts & Culture
Our latest stories on Canadian art, including literature, poetry, photography, painting, illustration, sculpture, galleries, museums, exhibitions, and artists of all media and backgrounds
Browse by subject: Film · Language · Music · Sports · Technology · Television · Theatre · Visual Art
Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad?
Buildings from the past fifty years have been largely uninspiring. Why don’t we take good design seriously?
Read More
The Year of Witch Lit: Weird Women Dominated New Stories of Suspicion and Rupture
Three novels about confusion, distrust, and fear mirror our pandemic moment
Read More
Looney Tunes Will Never Die and That’s All, Folks!
How Bugs Bunny and his pals managed to become a TV success impervious to time and changing standards
Read More
All Aboard the Metaverse: Is the New Digital Frontier Unstoppable?
It may not exist yet, but no one in tech can risk ignoring Mark Zuckerberg’s next big thing
Read More
The Shadow Land: Indigenous Memoirs and the Question of “Trauma Porn”
The term has emerged as an insidious charge. How should we approach painful stories?
Read More
The Wheel of Time: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Adaptations of Our Favourite Books
The challenge for Robert Jordan fans is to avoid nitpicking the flashy new Amazon series
Read More
Toronto Is Canada’s Basketball Centre, but You Can’t Always See That in Its Courts
Thanks to the Raptors, basketball has never been so popular. But the lack of high-quality facilities tells a troubling story
Read More
Exclusive updates, a free tote, and more!