“No, but I’ve seen the movie”: The great adaptation debate
Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children has already provided an epic’s worth of drama and it has yet to hit the screen; much the same could be said of Peter Jackson’s fraught...
View ArticleBooks to look forward to in 2012: Clear some serious time, folks
Part of the fun of following literature is in being taken by surprise. Look down the list of the big 2011 award winners and ask yourself: how many of these writers did I really know about twelve months...
View ArticleThe Writer In the Library: La Grande Bibliotheque celebrates 25 years of...
From 4 to 6 pm on February 11th–that’s today, if you’re reading this on Saturday– La Grande Bibliotheque (475 de Maisonneuve Blvd E, but you knew that) hosts a free bilingual event sure to impart a...
View ArticleDoug Camilli: But who will protect the Terracotta Army from Hollywood?
MONTREAL — You know those 8,000 life-size terracotta statues of warriors, buried in China’s Xi’an province 2,200 years ago to protect Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the afterlife? I’ve been wondering — and...
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