John Lorinc

During that first disorienting year of the pandemic, when there was pressure everywhere and no relief valve, all sorts of organizations sought to capture something of the brittle zeitgeist by commissioning, collecting, or curating COVID‑19 art, for lack of a better term. Hastily compiled short story anthologies soon surfaced, and eventually some retrospectives appeared of works done by artists in — shall we say — …

There is only one forward-looking question to ask about the excruciating horror in Gaza: How will it end? By “how,” I’m talking not just about the short-term mechanics of an enduring ceasefire, but also about the “how” of the aftermath: How do enemies become neighbours? Yet there’s another, more backward-looking question that cries out for an answer: Where and when did this conflict…

There is a certain conceptual audacity about setting out to tell the story of a famed thoroughfare and its place — literal and figurative — in a broader urban history. Besides the basic factuality — its origin story, physical details, the landmark addresses, and so on — what exactly are we talking about when we focus on the life of Broadway or Fifth…

Tanya Chiu, a yoga instructor, bought her condo about a decade ago, when her forty-­unit building, located near Toronto’s High Park and designed in a Miami-­inflected art deco style, was “just a drawing.” Until she and her husband decided to sell, earlier this year, and move into a house with a backyard, they were mostly…