The case against having kids
They can hurt your career, your marriage, your social life, your bank book. Why bother?
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Anne Kingston
Senior Writer and Columnist Anne Kingston covers contemporary culture—everything from medical politics to the politics of food. She is the author of ’The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the 21st Century’ and ’The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President’s Choice and the Making of Popular Taste.’ Find her at anne.kingston@macleans.rogers.com.
Ever-blooming lilac wars
Class divisions are emerging with the arrival of a new lilac. It’s seen as either a garish freak or a great innovation.
’Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It’ by Maile Meloy
Each miniature universe feels true and authentic, the result of subtle, uncluttered storytelling, wryly-observed detail and crackling dialogue
As the Globe turns
The Globe and Mail came up with a plan for surviving the newspaper revolution. It didn’t include its editor.
The final curtain
Garth Drabinsky’s sentencing hearing began today. But the show could be far from over.
Can the Sanfords put the "genie back in the bottle?"
Mark and Jenny’s passive-aggressive public outpourings just keep coming
The Silvio Berlusconi Show
As the scandals mount, is Italy’s gaffe-prone PM at risk of cancellation?
If you’re smart, you’ll marry money
‘A man is not a financial plan,’ say these subversive experts, ‘but he can be part of one’
The beauty and the beasts
Star of a reality show, photographed by ‘Vogue,’ Canadian jockey Chantal Sutherland brings glam to a muck-splattered sport
My play’s longer than your play
Robert Lepage’s new work is nine hours long and it’s not unique. Here comes ’slow theatre.’