Arts & Culture

Babble Book Club presents a special conversation with Lynn Coady, author of The Antagonist, on March 4, 12:00 p.m. PST/3:00 p.m. EST.

Canada Reads should be a beautiful thing: our public broadcaster celebrating Canadian books and authors. Readers and writers in Canada deserve better than what has happened on this year's edition.

Chelby Marie Daigle recounts her great time spent being a "book" in the Human Library in Ottawa.

Recently, I have been spending my nights glued to the computer monitor instead of sleeping -- literally fighting off sleep -- watching the Egyptian uprising online.

We are joined by KW poet and artist extraordinaire Janice Lee for discussion on the local Kitchener-Waterloo slam poetry series and to drop a couple of new poems.

Bomb Girls exposes sexism, racism and great Canadian TV. Check out the new show -- it's Canadian television you can be proud of.

In building a broader context for the Northern Gateway battle, stepping beyond recent headlines is important. In that vein, what are the relations between Enbridge and funding for the arts?

Consider this a delayed obituary for McClelland & Stewart, "The Canadian Publishers," which effectively expired this month after a lengthy decline in the care of several owners.

Both as a movie buff and a veteran leftie, I've been waiting to see The Iron Lady so I could write about it. Having now seen the movie, I have to admit that I'm perplexed as to what to say and advise.

As Montreal is being celebrated as a centre for cutting edge art in North America, a heightened critical reflection on artistic production and its representation is necessary.

A musical adaptation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece The Idiot premiered at the PuSh Festival in Vancouver last week.

I never much liked storytelling as a model for Life Itself and this may be a hint that it's due for retirement. In Canada it had a particularly strong run as a model for Canadian culture.

We speak with Jord Samolesky, drummer of the Canadian punk band Propagandhi, on their involvement in a variety of political movements.

You might wonder about pro hockey and world peace, but renowned children's entertainer and advocate Raffi sees them as intimately intertwined.