Photo by Word Freak So, the shortlist for the Giller Prize is out. And whether you think it's rigged or based on talent, we still have to wonder: who's it going to be? Aside from that, the 28th International Festival of Authors officially kicks off tomorrow evening with a PEN Canada benefit event, featuring Margaret Atwood in conversation with Ian Rankin. And if you don't have any tickets, well, you're out of luck, as......

Photo by EIFF. Next week on October 17th, the International Festival of Authors will kick off its 28th year since its inception in 1980 at the Premiere Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West). Incorporating some of the best contemporary world literature, the festival is comprised of eleven days and nights of readings, interviews, round-table discussions, lectures, and book signings—not to mention special event readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists.......

Here we go. The biggest week of the year for book lovers, the International Festival of Authors, is upon us. Torontoist will have extensive coverage of this year’s IFOA. For now, here are a few non-IFOA events taking place this week. Monday Tonight, you have the choice of heading over to the Smiling Buddha Bar – 961 College – for this week’s Freedom Readings, starting at 6pm (and free) or checking out Margaret MacMillan......

The last 10 days have been a great time to be a film nut, but now Christmas comes early for book nerds as over the next few weeks two of the biggest events of the year take place, starting with next Sunday’s Word on the Street, which will be followed by the start of the International Festival of Authors in mid-October. A few events taking place today. Poet Lorette C. Luzajic launches her first book,......

We're happy to see that former Torontoist contributor J. Kelly Nestruck and former Torontoist editor Alison Broverman have started up the Theatre Eaters, a new blog over at the National Post dedicated to theatre. It'll be like he said/she said but for theatre geeks, we hope. Posts include their roundups of Summerworks and Canadians representin' at the Edinburgh International Festival.......

Dynamic dancer and choregrapher Marie Chouinard is presenting her company's latest work for one night only (November 3rd) at the Hummingbird Center. bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS was created this past summer at the Venice Biennale's International Festival of Contemporary Dance. We have a pair of tickets that we will give to the first person who e-mails us with the answer to this skill-testing question: Where is the Compagnie Marie Chouinard based? We're sorry, but the contest is......

Now would have us believe that Redford and JLo star in this weekend's Junebug, but Embeth Davidz' has about half the booty, and Alessandro Nivola has about half the weathered facial texture. Do these halves add up to a whole? A whole good film, no less? Everyone and their mother seems to think yes. - But we'd be disingenuous twerps who write in the third person if we didn't admit that we've been awaiting the......