Art and science can seem two opposites on a spectrum. One is creative and interpretive, the other exact and empirical. But an emerging technology known as Pure Structural Colour – dubbed the “boldest, ...

Twelve years ago, the writer Sheila Heti published a short list of her favorite “secret self-help” books, offering only the criteria that each book had “actually helped me—they’re both precious and ...

When her latest novel, Pure Colour, won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction last November, Sheila Heti was finally recognized in Canada after being included in best-of lists the ...

She has written about some of our biggest modern-day conundrums: whether to have children, how to live an authentic life. With her new novel, “Pure Colour,” she considers how love and art can heal. By ...

I don’t deny that some of her work has autobiographical content. How Should a Person Be? hews closely to Heti’s coming-of-age as a writer in a small circle of young artists in Toronto, and the ...

Sheila Heti first came to real critical attention with her 2012 novel, “How Should a Person Be?” The strange phrasing of that book’s title — not who or what but how should a person be — implied that ...