Congratulations Julia Tolciu for your successful entry York Mills Collegiate Institute's Creative Writing Contest! Read her winning poem here: did i tell you about that movie i used to love By Julia Tolciu Did you know I used to love this movie? Now I can’t get over how corny it is I used to spend so long drawing with chalk on the sidewalk The last time I used chalk was to write an equation on the board And I didn’t like the way it got my hands dusty I would splash in every p

By Victoria Nicholson Modern East Asian literature carries a shared sensibility: the balance of restraint and excess. Whether an intimate story of sisters, or a tale of Earth’s first contact with aliens, contemporary writers across South Korea, China and Japan have been crafting a resonant portrait of everyday life in East Asia for years. Below is a list of eight recommendations that demonstrate this balance the most poignantly. The Vegetarian (2007) - Han Kang Yeong-hye and

By Sophia Shen Academic Art or Academicism is a style of artwork originating from European art academies. Beginning in Italy in the mid-16th century, it became prevalent in the 17th-19th century and peaked after the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. It was notably led by the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which blended components of Neoclassicism and Romanticism. These academies often followed strict curricula on how colour, light, and shadow worked together to mimic a real object.