The literature of dementia is not large. There are nonfictional exceptions, such as Annie Ernaux’s wrenching account of her mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s, I Remain in Darkness, Wendy Mitchell’s ...

Matilda to Alice in Wonderland - THE LIST: The classics you may already know, and the hidden gems that deserve more attention ...

The Steinbach Pistons have added 20-year-old defender Matthew Munro in a trade with the Swan Valley Stampeders ahead of the CJHL ... Steinbach will take on the Niverville Nighthawks on Saturday night.

Canada is a gigantic country, containing different landscapes, climates, peoples, cultures and languages. Alice Munro cuts it down to a disconcertingly small size. She situates her stories somewhere ...

Of the 62 million people who died in 2024, here are a couple dozen who stick out, from the brain of a long-time arts writer.

on a night when she was visiting and her mother was away. When she went home, Skinner told her stepmother and stepbrother, who in turn told her father, Jim Munro, Alice Munro’s first husband.

As the new year rolls in, a much more important holiday for New Orleanians follows closely on its heels: Twelfth Night, the official start of Carnival season in the Crescent City. Each year on Jan.

While for some this may simply be an easy schedule to follow, for Christians it’s about recognising the festival of Twelfth Night, followed by Epiphany. The 12 days of Christmas began on ...

Twelfth Night is not a national holiday in the UK and is nowhere near as celebrated as Christmas. But, you may well have heard of it, perhaps through your digital calendar or through the famous ...

Last July, the Toronto Star published Andrea Robin Skinner’s account of her sexual abuse, as a child, by Alice Munro’s husband, Gerald Fremlin—abuse that Munro, her mother, ultimately chose to ...

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Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who reached her greatest fame on television as the titular waitress of the diner-set sitcom “Alice,” a role that came to symbolize the working ...