Culture

Shannon Proudfoot: What does online school actually look like? It’s an impossible balancing act that’s ruining kids and parents alike. And it’s not okay.

First, more revelations from a civil lawsuit claiming the prince had sex with a minor. Next, the sentencing of Ghislaine Maxwell. Not a very happy new year.

Here’s Jaime Weinman’s list of the new shows and movies worth checking out on Netflix in Canada

’Most Black British novelists and poets are not writing directly about racism; they’re channelling their creativity into everything else that we people of the human race experience,’ writes Bernardine Evaristo in ’Manifesto’

One fancifully sinister scene in the Canadian Opera Company’s 2021-22 performance of ’La Traviata’ encapsulates why we return to the opera time and time again

Bob Ramsay’s memoir explains how he survived a brush with death–for love

A riveting review of the hundred years since King Tut’s tomb was discovered; a new, luminous offering from Canadian novelist Emily St. John Mandel; plus four other nightstand-worthy titles landing in 2022

New movies are back, but they’re all old

In a pivotal scene in this film adaptation, a young singer—struggling with his sexuality and nervous about opening up to his conservative Filipino family—finally gains the confidence to perform in front of his entire school

For Robert Boyd, the evolution of our culture is as biological—and critical—as the evolution of our pelvises