by kira.dorward | Sep 30, 2012 | Posts
So, unlike past year fails, this month my new roommate, Jane, who’s a huge film buff, actually got me to a few TIFF movies. Normally, paying $22.50 to see a movie would seem completely outrageous (as opposed to paying around $15 any other day, which tends to...
by kira.dorward | Sep 30, 2012 | Posts
Recently it’s occurred to me how much of a person’s identity is ultimately and inescapably predetermined by not just where they live, but where they began life. Where we are dictates much of our geographic and cultural landscape in the present, but where...
by kira.dorward | Jun 30, 2011 | Posts
Cinderella syndrome aside, what makes Will and Kate’s wedding a “modern” fairytale is the reality that the Royal Couple is the product of a carefully managed PR effort to reinstate the British monarchy in the good graces of the public. After the tumult of the Diana...
by kira.dorward | Mar 26, 2011 | Posts
There are few Canadian writers who’ve made it into the glossy pages of The New Yorker– the hallowed halls of contemporary journalism– Alice Munro being one of the few. A frequent favourite of TNY, virtually monopolizing the “Canadian...
