Fall Festival Picks 2016
by/par Rebecca Anne Clark, Caroline Rodgers and/et Kiersten van Vliet Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, September 8 to 18 The 41st annual TIFF kicks off…
Browsing: Literature
La Rentrée Culturelle: Literature – Books to Watch Out For
Graphic Novels A slew of interesting graphic novels representing a variety of genres and tones come out this fall. Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated first graphic…
Shakespeare Reimagined
Founded in 1917 and re-launched in 2012, Hogarth Press is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death with a literary series, Hogarth Shakespeare. Inaugurated…
Review – Amazing Water: An Introduction to Classical Music (The Secret Mountain)
An ode to water, the source of all life, Amazing Water: An Introduction to Classical Music is an excellent educational tool for ages 8 to…
Daily News Roundup: 2 August 2016
+ The Heckeler’s Andrew Burn takes on Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum & Jubilate with respect to the context around its creation and performance. “I’m not…
The Party at the End of the World
A shrewd November dusk de-illuminates an opaque door on rue de la Montagne near the corner of boulevard De Maisonneuve at the very heart of Montreal’s…
Daily News Roundup: 21 June 2016
+ R.E.M’s Mike Mills Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and String Orchestra with the TSO was quite the hit with younger audiences. + A miniseries…
Summer Reading: Boussole
Boussole Mathias Énard Actes Sud, 378 p. Boussole’s first sentence is a 300-word long delirium. The winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt thus sets the…
Summer Arts 2016: Literary events and upcoming book releases
La Promenade des écrivains In Québec city, from June 4 to September 25, La Promenade des écrivains invites you to discover the city in a…
Summer Reading: La carte des Mendelssohn
La carte des Mendelssohn Diane Meur Sabine Wespieser éditeur, 461 p. Diane Meur decided to investigate the ancestors of Felix Mendelssohn: his father Abraham Mendelssohn…
