Potter interruptus in a Twilight era
Arriving eight months late, with a vampire in pursuit, can Harry still seduce his aging fans?
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Books
When ‘free’ becomes really expensive
In the age of digital culture, it is not just access to art that has been democratized, but its production as well.
Autistic licence
Suddenly, Asperger’s is the new ‘it’ disorder on screen and in fiction.
’Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music from Hank Snow to The Band,’ by Jason Schneider
One of the few Canadian music books that goes back as far as Hank Snow and Wilf Carter—and sheds new light on some of the more canonized mouldy oldies
Apostle of Hustle’s Andrew Whiteman recommends some poetry
’Three Canadian poets whose writing is like finding razors on your tongue and getting turned on by it’
How to get revenge on a cheater
Some creative ways for betrayed wives to hit an ex where it hurts
More powerful than a book club
Four women form a group dedicated to allowing each of them to realize a dream
The sad demise of French cooking
Never mind fewer cafés and top chefs, even some classic cheeses are becoming extinct
Peak water, peak fish and the end of everything
‘Peakonomics’ forgets there is such a thing as innovation. The Stone Age didn’t end because they reached ‘peak rocks.’
Singer-songwriter Joel Plaskett recommends ’Twilight’ by William Gay
’A southern Gothic fairy tale that you shouldn’t read your kids’