January–February 2013

Book Is Here

A challenging polemic pits print against on-screen reading

Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow

Why don’t Canadians save more of their resource wealth?

The Western “Colonies”

Our notion of equal provinces from sea to sea is surprisingly new

Occupy the Shelf

The tents are gone, but here come the books

Peripatetic Poet

The inner and outer journeys of P.K. Page

An Awkward Original

The price of refusing to fit into musical—or gender—boxes

After Le grand dérangement

Acadians exiles ended up everywhere from Louisiana swamps to London slums

How Did It Come to This?

For progressives facing conservative victories, the question looms large

Handle with Care

Cities don’t just collect our garbage; they help make us who we are

Public Hostility

What makes hate speech wrong?

Picasso at 90

The Bird Caged

Sonnet beginning & ending with a line from Merwin

An Everyday Extraordinary

Capturing the way people behave in unusual situations

Fascinating Boredom

Exploring the banality of affluence and the tedium of the raconteur

Defiant Individualism

A classical composer and educator unsung in his own land

Patrician Bohemianism

An artist with the benefit of wealth and connections

Beautiful Losers

How a Canadian film masterpiece got waylaid by cultural criticism … and then rediscovered

Renaissance Man

A new book traces the longevity and the fragility of Da Vinci’s greatest work

The Chaos of Creativity

An exhaustive journey through the soul of a great musician