These four new horror books involve undead weddings, bizarre sex rituals and ants under the skin

Villain Hitting for Vicious Little NobodiesLindsay WongPenguin Canada, 384 pages, $27.95Memoirist and short story writer Lindsay Wong turns to the Chinese tradition of corpse marriage in her first novel for

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Nobel laureate Han Kang's first nonfiction book in English to be released next spring

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NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Han Kang’s first book of nonfiction to come out in English will be released

This play about love at Tarragon Theatre broke me for all the right (and wrong) reasons

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A Profoundly Affectionate, Passionate Devotion to Someone (-Noun)3 stars (out of 4) By debbie tucker green, directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa

Beware Black Friday — it's scarier than bungee jumping into a volcano holding hands with Freddy Krueger

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Break out the sprinting shoes and elbow pads: Black Friday is almost here.Actually, based on my inbox, it’s already here.

Movie Review: Brendan Fraser is a middling actor with a winning heart in sweet drama ‘Rental Family’

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It sounds rather like a mixed compliment to say of an actor that he’s persuasive at playing, well, a mediocre

Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards

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NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The

Life advice: Fashion legend Jeanne Beker on how cancer changed her life — for the better

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The treasure: Jeanne Beker is one of our most recognizable Canadians, having anchored groundbreaking TV show “FashionTelevision” for almost three

Toronto Star bestsellers: A Canadian-born Booker Prize winner and a memoir by the late Robbie Robertson make the lists

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Canadian readers must have been paying attention when Montreal-born David Szalay won the Booker Prize on Monday night.His novel “Flesh,”

How the artists behind 'Narnia' and 'Shrek the Musical' are creating spectacular scenes that spill off the stage

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The art of theatrical set-making is typically a painstaking, labour-intensive process. A designer first starts with a concept, developed in collaboration

This research stinks. Do parents really need to teach ‘consent’ while changing their babies’ diapers?

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Can changing a diaper be a teachable moment?I have changed hundreds of diapers in my time and the only lesson