Susan G. Cole
Affinity Konar In Conversation with Susan G. Cole
Susan G. Cole interviews Affinity Konar, author of MISCHLING on November 2nd at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto! more
Susan G. Cole interviews Michael Coren about his new book Epiphany
Susan G. Cole interviews Michael Coren about his new book Epiphany: A Christian's Change of Heart & Mind over Same-Sex Marriage on May 16th at North York Central Library! more
Susan G. Cole hosts BURST: New Voices in Canadian Literature
Susan G. Cole hosts BURST: New Voices in Canadian Literature at Pages Unbound Festival on May 6th at AGO's Jackman Hall! more
Micah White in conversation with Susan G. Cole
Micah White, co-creator and driving force behind 'Occupy Wall Street' talks with Susan G. Cole on March 17th at Toronto Reference Library! more
TIFF Critics Night with Susan G. Cole
This month's TIFF Critics Night guest, Susan G. Cole introduces a screening of Mustang on January 26th! more
Åsne Seierstad in conversation with Susan G. Cole
Win a pair of tickets to see non-fiction writer Åsne Seierstad in conversation with NOW's Susan G. Cole on October 28th at Lakeside Terrace! more
Kyo Maclear wins Trillium Book Award for Birds Art Life
Birding memoir takes $20,000 prize for excellence in writing by an Ontario author more
10 queer books to read in summer 2018
Here are some titles, published over the last year, to be proud of more
Makeda Zook by Rachel Jobson/Sadie Epstein-Fine by Amy Gottlieb
The highs and lows of growing up in queer families
Collection of essays by people brought up in queer families is bold, inspiring, and sometimes heartbreaking more
Stratford review: crowd-pleasing Music Man is irresistible
Meredith Willson’s paean to the power of music strikes a chord at Stratford more
Michael Watier
Never mind who won the vote, Ontario Election 2018 was an NDP triumph
The Orange wave is nowhere near cresting, with the NDP doubling their number of seats and coming extremely close – within 500 votes – to beating the PCs in half a dozen ridings more
Tom Sandler
Billy-Ray Belcourt wins 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize
This year's winner proves the award is committed to celebrating new voices more
Review: The Accountant Of Auschwitz is short but mighty
Documentary tracking a war crimes trial packs a ton of info and issues into a powerful pic more
Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? makes a hero out of Mr. Rogers
Morgan Neville’s film shows how the TV icon fearlessly dealt with profound issues on his show for preschoolers more
Yuula Benivolski
Griffin Prize finalist Aisha Sasha John's poetry of life
The Toronto author on learning to listen, Afro-pessimism and poetic anger more
Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and waning male dominance in literature
Celebrate these writers for their contributions, but know that new generations of writers, with women leading the way, are creating new priorities more
Inside Out review: Silvana
Doc about queer Swedish rapper Silvana Imam could be this year's Chavela more
Rachel McAdams shows a new side in Orthodox Jewish lesbian love story Disobedience
But, unlike in his Oscar winning A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio doesn’t convey the essence of his central character’s inner conflict more
Review: Meg Wolitzer puts feminist principles to the test
An ambitious young activist must come to grips with her personal idol in the author's wily new novel, The Female Persuasion more
Barry Avrich's second Weinstein doc doesn't go far enough
Local director takes down Hollywood's now most famous abuser of power for sexual gain – but drops the ball on the #MeToo movement more
Toronto Jewish Film Festival slate is full of sneak peeks
From Disobedience, featuring Rachels Weisz and McAdams as Orthodox Jewish women in love, to the doc about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this year's TJFF screens many much-anticipated films more
Cylla von Tiedemann
Girls Like That has tremendous energy – almost too much, in fact
Evan Placey's exploration of teen girls’ development of consciousness needs to take a breath more
Seth Fluker
Should a woman have children?
Toronto author Sheila Heti's novel Motherhood goes deep into one of life's major questions more
Courtesy of Bell Media
TV review: The Handmaid's Tale ups the horror in season two
The dystopian series based on Margaret Atwood's book is back for season two and the outlook for Elisabeth Moss's protagonist is bleak more
Samuel Engelking
Women chefs step up to the plate in Hot Docs opener The Heat
Director Maya Gallus’s timely film shows how gifted women are transforming kitchen culture and grappling with its hierarchies and misogyny more
Hot Docs review: Strand: Under The Dark Cloth
One of the biggest names in American photography gets the documentary treatment more
