State of the Arts

There's a new book out that you should have a look at.

Toronto The Good

In 2005, uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto (Coach House Press) was an unexpectedly successful book of essays re-imagining Toronto as a city of possibility and invention. The fact that there’s now a sequel, The State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto, is either proof that the notion of Torontopia soldiers on, or proof to outsiders that Torontonians never tire of talking about themselves.

[Note: this review is taken directly from NOW, and includes several errors, including a few essays that have been attributed to the wrong contributors.]

THE STATE OF THE ARTS: LIVING WITH CULTURE IN TORONTO edited by Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio and Jonny Dovercourt (Coach House), 350 pages, $24.95 paper. Rating: NNNN

The second volume in the utopia series, which asks contributors to comment on T.O.