Mike Doherty

The Canadian Opera Company has reworked a problematic opera about the story of Louis Riel. Does it succeed, all the same?

After years of darkness, the enigmatic Leslie Feist re-emerges, facing up to herself to produce an intimate, intentional album

Despite chronic pain, the author delivers another Gowdyesque novel, replete with absurdist humour

While a new book by Mayte Garcia offers revelations into the enigmatic Prince, it is also a complex consideration of privacy

Parasites and pathogens are becoming resistant to pesticides and herbicides, and climate change means an influx of new pests

Bruce Cannon Gibney on how U.S. boomers—raised amid postwar plenty, with Trump as their ’id’—developed excessive self-interest

As the U.S. looks backward to make it great again, top Grammy nominees reveal a cultural fascination with time’s passing

The author of ’4 3 2 1’ explores the instability of reality, and how everything can change in a blink

After two Inuit announced they were Jesus and God, nine people in their community lost their lives

What the final efforts of David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and 2016’s many departed stars tell us about how to live