Arts

David Szalay’s perplexing novel Turbulence struggles to take flight

Aquarela is a harrowing document of water’s beautiful, terrifying power

Architect and professor R. Douglas Gillmor was eternally curious - about everyone

The sun rises, and the sun sets, on the toe-tapping documentary Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

At 40, Tapestry is Canadian opera’s most reliable risk taker

The magical-realist blood-bath Tigers Are Not Afraid is one of the best surprises of the summer

Comic book artist Ernie Colón dies at 88

Adina Pintille’s sexually provocative docudrama Touch Me Not inches toward true carnal knowledge

TIFF 2019: Festival shifts to a paperless schedule

Ready or Not, here comes a bloody and inventive late-summer movie season surprise

Jana Prikryl uses the anger she felt after the 2016 election to inform her new poem collection No Matter

Dr. Jen Gunter says it’s time to go public with the truth about women’s privates

With an election looming, this group sees itself in a battle for Canada’s soul – or at least its culture

Richard Williams was an Academy Award-winning animation director who brought Roger Rabbit to life

Battle over future of Nova Scotia pulp mill reflects wider Canadian debate, filmmaker says

Disney+ streaming service coming to Canada, putting pressure on traditional cable providers

Xavier Dolan dies the death of a thousand cuts with The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

Three reads for hot summer days

Stratford Festival 2019: Perhaps Arthur Miller’s The Crucible should be mangled, but not like this

ROM’s palaeontology team heads to Montana’s badlands to uncover remains of triceratops named Dio

Summer at the Cinema: How Japanese horror Ringu revealed the curse of adulthood

Stratford Festival 2019: Michael Healey rewrites The Front Page with insight - and in-jokes

The Royal BC Museum’s makeover: Why its CEO is pressing for a new building

Stratford Festival 2019: In Wajdi Mouawad’s Birds of a Kind, nothing succeeds like excess

’Easy Rider’ star, 1960s icon Peter Fonda dies at 79

What are people reading in Midland, Ont.?

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel promises to visit Dildo, N.L., after being named ‘honourary mayor’

Xavier Dolan on the long life, death, and resurrection of The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

New movies in theatres this week, including the poignant Mine 9, the formlessly entertaining The Angry Birds Movie 2 and the sloppy Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Mine 9 is a claustrophobic, poignant tale of survival