Articles in Arts & Culture
Arts and literature coverage that encompasses online book reviews, music, film and television, the visual arts, architecture and design, and that reflects on our society and culture.
July 2008
by Marian Botsford Fraser
In the age of the global citizen, travel literature is in crisis
by Stephen Henighan
Despite bleak poverty, Mozambique’s multi-ethnic literary culture thrives
by Sergei Sviatchenko
For more art by Sviatchenko see “Shelter From The Storm”
by The Walrus
An interview with Canadian photographer Joan Latchford.
June 2008
by Siobhan Roberts
Setting Joseph Conrad’s classic novel to music.
by Larry Frolick
Guatemala’s sailfish hunters at sea
by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
Fiji, folks, and fun
by Bill Reynolds
On the road to two-wheeled transcendence. One man’s love affair with his bicycle.
by Banning Eyre
The progeny of late Afrobeat superstar Fela Kuti carry on his legend, and his fury
by Daniel Baird
The quiet force of photographer Larry
by Don Gillmor
What seethes beneath T.O.’s cool politeness
by Dominic Wilcox
Artist Dominic Wilcox’s ephemeral ephemera.
May 2008
by Kent Monkman
Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: a portrait.
by Moira Farr
What makes sad music sad?
by Jan Dutkiewicz and Jeremy Keehn
Mixed martial arts fights for legitimacy
by Nora Underwood
David Waltner-Toews gets down and dirty
by Andy Rementer
Does the Internet make you want to kill yourself? Cartoons can help
by Chris Turner
Michael Reynolds’ quest for sustainable structures
by Jeremy Keehn and Jan Dutkiewicz
Video of Mixed Martial Arts fighter Nick Denis: three rounds in the ring.
April 2008
by Mara Hvistendahl
Motorcycle nostalgists in China
by Murray Whyte
Vancouver Island’s slow food rebirth
by Susan Crean
The new confidence of Aboriginal theatre
by Claire Hastings
The details behind the denim, from ninety years ago to now
by Alistair Brown
The western rides its comeback into Canada
March 2008
by Tim McKeough
Canadian haute decor’s kitschy coming of age
by Hadani Ditmars
Baghdad’s artistic exodus
by Daniel Baird
by Jan Dutkiewicz
Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech, by Craig Silverman, Viking Canada (2007), 366 pp.
by Jared Bland
by Marni Jackson
by Various
The renaissance in Canadian design
February 2008
by Danielle Groen
by Jan Dutkiewicz
by Ariel Brewster
by Daniel Baird
by Jared Bland
Civic struggles and the public square: an appreciation
by Adele Weder
The failed dream of Montreal’s Habitat ‘67.
by Denis Seguin
Guy Maddin’s hometown homage
by Julie Doucet
A day in the moving life
by Mark Kingwell
Is Toronto being taken over by hucksters,
fauxhemians, and the “knowledge economy”?
