The Canadian painter Tom Thomson (1877-1917) was the forerunner of the Group of Seven, the national movement in landscape painting. He is best known as an interpreter of the Canadian wilderness.Tom Th...
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Novelists Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford and Dave Eggers were among the finalists Thursday night for the 33rd annual National Book Critics Circle prize.McCarthy's "The Road," Ford's "The Lay of the ...
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," a narrative of global discovery and displacement that has already won the Man Booker Prize, received another literary honor Thursday night: the National Boo...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - An oil sketch by famed Canadian
artist Tom Thomson sold for C$550,000 ($559,000) at auction in
one of its first-known public appearances. Thomson's "Algonquin Park", which depi...
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(Nicholas Moore, former chief energy correspondent at Reuters,
remembers covering OPEC policy in 1980, when inflation-adjusted
oil was last worth $100 a barrel) By Nicholas Moore LONDON, Jan 2 (R...
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