Susan G. Cole
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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Past articles by Susan:
14 must-read books for spring 2020
Including new books by Souvankham Thammavongsa, Jeff Rubin, Kawai Strong Washburn, Vivek Shraya, Adrian Tomine and more → Read More
Oscars 2020: Why Bombshell never blew up
The film’s take on sexual harassment at Fox News tried too hard to satisfy everybody... and pleased no one → Read More
The best books of 2019
From The Testaments to Ian Williams's Giller Prize winner, this year gave us exceptional novels from veteran writers and rising stars → Read More
Every Day She Rose is an important piece of political theatre
Black Lives Matters’ action at Pride shatters a friendship in this of-the-moment play that asks all the right questions → Read More
Copy That shows Jason Sherman is way out of his depth
This play proves there are themes a 50-something, white, male playwright should avoid → Read More
The Testaments confirms Margaret Atwood's pop icon status
The Toronto author's highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is more thrilling actioner than literary meditation → Read More
17 must-read books for fall 2019
Including new books by Margaret Atwood, Debbie Harry, Robyn Doolittle, Salman Rushdie, Naomi Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Edna O’Brien, Drew Hayden Taylor and more → Read More
The 14 best books to read in summer 2019
From a queer Muslim memoir to a history of small-town Chinese restaurants in Canada, here are the season's essential titles → Read More
Stratford Festival review: modern take on Othello deepens Shakespeare’s tragedy
Nigel Shawn Williams's powerful production shifts the emphasis from jealousy to societal racism and misogyny → Read More
TV review: The Handmaid’s Tale takes a big turn in season three
There may be some light at the end of this series’ very dark tunnel → Read More
Inside Out 2019
Inside Out review: You Don't Nomi Essay film about Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls is most interesting when exploring why the camp classic is so meaningful to women and queer audiences Read more Inside Out review: Dykes In The Streets Almerinda Travassos's inspiring film speaks to the need for lesbians – and everyone else – to know our political history Read more Inside Out review: Knives And Skin… → Read More
Three emerging theatre artists receive the first annual Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Awards
NOW Magazine's beloved theatre writer was remembered in a moving celebration → Read More
It's time to reconsider polarizing radical feminist Andrea Dworkin
Art critic and Le Tigre co-founder Johanna Fateman helps put the second-wave feminist writer back in the conversation with Last Days At Hot Slit → Read More
Five decades in, Robert Christgau is still a rock critic
As he prepares to release his fourth essay collection, the American writer talks bad reviews, covering abusers and how he's kept writing for 50 years → Read More
Guarded Girls is a moving exploration of women in a maximum security prison
Playwright Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman gives her characters' stories life and potent dramatic force → Read More
Doyali Islam wins TIFA’s poetry competition Battle Of The Bards
Toronto-based poet comes out on top after a night of excellent readings by Michelle Brown, Jay MillAr, Adebe DeRango-Adem and others → Read More
Medieval book by a writer dubbed the first feminist lands at U of T
The university acquired Christine de Pizan's 1470 manuscript The Book Of Peace from the collection of the late Pierre Bergé → Read More
Review: Gloria Bell, even with Julianne Moore, is an unnecessary remake
Oscar-winner Sebastián Lelio’s remake of his 2013 Chilean film has been Americanized in some unsettling ways → Read More
Colson Whitehead is coming to Toronto to celebrate "classy trash"
Ahead of his appearance at TIFF's Books On Film series, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks Barry Jenkins, Halloween and the oppressive Oscars → Read More
Play about the Oslo Accords is packed with intriguing ideas
Israel-Palestine negotiations are way too complex to stage in one play, but Oslo's impressive cast almost makes you forget that → Read More