Author: vanlovesart

Thank god for Shauna Singh Baldwin. She is Canadian. And Indian. And American. This puts her at an extremely unique vantage point from where she can explore matters of multiculturality and global sociology. A Canadian great in her own right,

Elizabeth Hay has a magical voice. A voice fit for storytelling. A voice tailor-made for radio. Hay has five novels to her name. Her novel “Late Nights in the Air” won the Giller Prize in 2007. The novel is an

Dutch writer Herman Koch wrote “The Dinner” in 2013. His novel examined European society’s hypocritical facade of morality. Two brothers and their respective wives get together for regular family dinners, which all of them secretly hate. The brothers operate out of

Hannah Kent’s very first novel, Burial Rites, is a stunning bestseller. The novel has already racked up nominations for various awards including the Guardian First Book Award. Burial Rites tells the story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last Icelandic woman to

Mexican cinema is edgy. It is unafraid and almost always cinematically beautiful. I have seen many masterpieces in the genre, but never have I seen Mexico City portrayed quite like this before. Julio Hernandez Cordon shows us the underbelly of a buzzing

I don’t get musicals. Never have and never will. I am probably not the best person to talk about “London Road”. I can however weigh in from the perspective of an outsider to the genre. The film is set in a

Move over Lena Dunham, we like this pre-hipster portrayal of Brooklyn much better, thank you very much. “Brooklyn” is the romance I have been waiting to see for years. I absolutely wept through it. You know, I usually, of course