Arts & Culture

It has happened twice. Twice in the last week! As examinations too-quickly approach, I have had two classes where an individual has asked if they could write their exam on a computer. I am...

About a month ago I wrote an article in the Manitoban regarding the top trends of fall 2010. Sitting in the number 12 spot on that list was the oh-so-trendy bicycle. It seems that...

There have been countless times where I couldn’t go a whole outing without feeling ignored by a friend whose nose was buried in their T9 world. It’s like when someone says it rude for...

From the week of Nov. 15-19, 2010, I lived in a tent in the Gallery of Student Art on campus at the University of Manitoba, in an exhibition called Secondhand Tables and Chairs. The...

I’ve just finished reading Charles Foran’s mammoth biography of one of my literary heroes, Mordecai Richler. Privy to Richler’s private papers, held by the University of Calgary, Foran made a startling discovery that had...

Jonathan Ball is a writer, a filmmaker and scholar, but mostly, he’s a writer. The author of two quite successful recent books, Ex Machina and Clockfire and innumerable other things, he teaches writing at...

When was the last time you had to unpack a crate full of squashed baby sea turtles and their eggs that were smuggled across international borders in someone’s luggage? Do you think you could...