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Some Highs & Lows in the Life of Stephan G. Stephansson, Icelandic Canadian poet (1853–1927)
A poem.
Catherine Owen
That Ever Governed Frenzy
Through the eyes of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Michael Wernick
Jeffrey Simpson
Recommended Dose of Reality
Yet another misdiagnosis won’t fix our health care system
Gregory P. Marchildon
A Fully Realized Senate
The upper chamber is finally doing what it’s supposed to do
Christopher Moore
The World inside Their Heads
A novelist wrestles with the idea that fiction is stranger than truth
Susan Swan
Right Out of Tosca
The sprawling, multi-generational history of a familythat is a window to the strangeness and richness of Quebec
Alison Gzowski
The Fire and Brimstone Next Time
We deal with the reality of evil by thinking of ways that sinners are punished
Mark Lovewell
When Terror Came to Canada
The response to the FLQ crisis remains controversial five decades later
Brian Stewart
The Devil Is in the Details
Canada’s legalization of marijuana raises a host of policy and health questions
Andrew Potter and James McIntosh
Ignoring Tectonic Shifts
As the Asian world has risen, Canada has paid little attention
David M. Malone
Invisible Canadians
How can you live decades with someone and know nothing about him?
Judy Fong Bates
The Life and Death of Parents
Two writers look to the generation before them to tell stories of their past
Marian Botsford Fraser
Boredom as a Political Weapon
Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world
Tom Jokinen
A Catholic and a Jihadi Walk into a Storeroom...
Faith, terror, and temptation converge in satirical campus novel
J.C. SutcliffeA Doubled Apocalypse
A remote community, the end of modernity, and an unnerving, "intensely claustrophobic" novel
Navneet Alang
Polar Opposites
Arctic nations see opportunity in receding sea ice but the economic rewards may prove elusive
Edward Struzik
Enough Heat to Melt the Ice
A new generation of novels about hockey finds the action away from the rink
Stephen Smith
"I Simply Did a Mash-up"
Margaret Atwood in conversation with Michael Enright
Margaret Atwood and Michael EnrightNo Excess of Success
Too nice for America, too big for us: the comedic enigma of the Kids in the Hall
Jaime J. Weinman
Which Books Do We Need?
Literary now-ness, and an anachronistic, exquisitely fashioned novel
Pasha MallaMeanwhile In Another Forest…
Canada’s trees, and the long history of another era’s resource war
Charlotte Gray
Money for a Post-Work World
Silicon Valley is a fan, but does basic income have a fighting chance?
Jason Kirby
Myers, Briggs, and the Age of Self-Actualization
The world's most famous personality test as cosmic laboratory for our times
Mireille Silcoff
The Cult of Personal Autonomy
The triumph of identity in politics, and everywhere else
Christopher DummittThe Truth of Canada’s Failure in Afghanistan
Geopolitical condescension and the Forever War
Chris Alexander
The Foreign-Baby Baby Problem
A lesson on citizenship from contemporary Japan, and 1860s America
Andy LameyAbsolute Power
Before safety bicycles and dress reform there was a French-Canadian strong woman on wheels
Laura Robinson
The Age of Independence
The right to be, and a theory of territory in the era of Kurdistan and Catalonia
George Anderson
Lies and Other Alternatives
The happy side effect of conspiracy-obsessed, post-truth politics
Andy Lamey
Brexit and the Long, Baffling Goodbye
Oonagh Fitzgerald in conversation with Colin Crouch
Colin Crouch and Oonagh Fitzgerald
Autofiction Grows Up, a Little
Heti, Knausgaard, and what it takes to turn the real into the true
Emily M. KeelerThe Collapse of America
Charles Foran in conversation with Chris Hedges
Charles Foran and Chris HedgesTemporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in conversation with Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The Child As Organizational Colleague
Lessons learn from the “Tiny anarchic guerrillas” in our midst
Ian Garrick Mason
Diversity and the Problem of Belonging
Will Kymlicka in conversation with Chandran Kukathas
Chandran Kukathas and Will KymlickaChild Swallowings and Vainglory
The marvellously unrelatable world of the ancient Greeks
Jack Mitchell
What Do We Owe Other Humans in Need?
The ethics of refugee programs in an era of humanitarian crisis
Howard Adelman
Hapless Old Harridans Flapping Their Traps
Who says the alt-right doesn’t like poetry?
Aaron GiovannoneThinking in Public
Michelle Dean and Michelle Orange on women critics, 'the back of the book,' and being called a feminist
Did Virtue and the Think Piece Ruin Criticism?
Criticism in the shadow of cultural poptimism
John SemleyAltar Ego
An iconoclastic scholar on the modern value of a very old-fashioned idea
Daniel Bezalel RichardsenA Nation’s Phantom Pain
A French-Algerian vision of reconciliation comes to post-150th Canada
Sarah Milroy
Gone Girls and Their Sisters
The rise of the “domestic noir” in a feminist moment
Elisabeth de Mariaffi
The Collapse of Syria
The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time
Adnan R. KhanShortcuts across the Top of the World
Fighting Lady Franklin, and Canada, in the Far North
A.F. Moritz“I should just let this entire region spiral off”
Intimate reflections from a pair of father-and-son tyrants
Naben RuthnumThe Instant of Disappearance
Three works, and a single moment in Jordan Tannahill’s mind
José Teodoro
The Anorexic Home
Swedish death cleaning, Japanese life cleaning, and décor disorder
Mireille Silcoff
Power-Hungry Humans
Vaclav Smil and Chris Turner on the millennia-old story of energy
Alanna MitchellJean Chrétien: Fox or Snake
Bob Plamondon's Chrétien: The little guy from Shawinigan was Canada’s most fiscally conservative PM?
Michael TaubeNever Home: Djamila Ibrahim’s Debut
Lineage and longing in a story collection that spans Addis Ababa and Toronto
Rudrapriya RathoreDavid Milne escapes the woods
Blast sites and battlefields: the Milne Canada no longer sees goes to the Dulwich Gallery
Sarah MilroyHow We Are (Still) Dying
Wayne Sumner in conversation with Sandra Martin
Sandra Martin and Wayne Sumner
David Frum’s Trump Card
What the Critic-in-Chief doesn’t see about Donald Trump and George W. Bush
Andy Lamey
Spirited Away
Transforming birds, fireflies, and weed cookies in Eden Robinson’s British Columbia outpost
J.C. SutcliffeThose Unlucky Tots
Leanne Shapton’s Trojan Horse of a book, and the wistfulness of the best children’s literature
Nicholas KöhlerMichael Ignatieff’s Nouveau Modesty
The Ordinary Virtues epitomizes a career defined by ironies
Ira Wells
Israel’s Religious Awakening
Is the world ready for another theocracy in the Middle East?
Patrick Martin
A Poetics of Forgiveness
Ramin Jahanbegloo in conversation with Jalal Barzanji
Jalal Barzanji and Ramin Jahanbegloo
A Long Way From Home
The Kurdish struggle has the world’s attention, briefly, but not its sympathy
Ava Homa
Tax and the Canadian Psyche
Elsbeth Heaman in conversation with Shirley Tillotson
Elsbeth Heaman and Shirley Tillotson
The Empathy Paradox: What #MeToo Misses
What even a post-Weinstein conversation is not saying about sexual assault
Carly Lewis
The Money Trap
Big Pharma’s bid to woo doctors, patient groups, journalists, and the rest of us
Anne Kingston
Undeclaring a Language War
A Montreal academic confronts the “mytho-constitutional Quebec universe”
Graham Fraser
The Wrong Side of History
Monuments, historical sins, and reconciling with the past
Margaret MacMillan and Randall HansenA Toast to the Lassie
A portrait of Robert Burns’s much-adored, long-suffering wife and muse
Ian HunterMaud’s Darkening Gables
How the world wars shaped L.M. Montgomery’s character—and characters
Carole Gerson
Mr. Lithuania in Canada
A portrait of the artist as a parking-lot attendant and bingo caller
Joel YanofskyThe Sins of a City
The story of Canada’s Sherlock Holmes is also a dark and revealing history of Vancouver
Naben Ruthnum
“An Odiferous Goulash”
Automobility, the newspaper wars and how paved roads came to Hogtown
Beth Haddon
Brush with Infamy
A forgotten artist, a 50-year-old forgery and my unlikely journey into the country’s biggest art fraud case
Jon S. DellandreaPicture Perfect
Following a trail of iconic images in search of the real Glenn Gould
Deborah Kirshner
Unsettled
Is multinational, multicultural Canada more civilization than nation-state?
Joshua Nichols
The New Dissent
In an age of free speech battles and #fakenews, what exactly counts as dissent?
Andrew Potter
Unsolicited
Four decades of feminism through literature, and not a treatise in sight
Rosemary WestwoodSketches of New Spain
An extraordinary year in the life of a gifted and adventurous scientist
Sir Christopher OndaatjeInterlinguistic Planetary
Unmoored from time and space in a quasi-dystopia, two men are brought down to earth by a mysterious film
Andrew ForbesUnhappy in Its Own Way
Literature’s most infamous marriage, through a lifetime of letters
Anna A. BermanA Very, Very Modest Proposal
Can a microscopically small-ball approach accomplish political reform?
Christopher Moore
Cultural Appropriation, Race & the Diversity-Industrial Complex
Are we really having the conversation we need to have about race and Indigenous Canada?
Sarmishta SubramanianAlone in a Room
An artist’s arresting vision of a life in captivity, and of how power shapes our world and our selves
Nicholas KöhlerGoode for All Infermitys
Accounting for tastes in a collection of 17th-century recipes and remedies
Eugenia Zuroski
The Post-Scarcity World
Capitalism meets its cyber-hippie match in a bountiful future that redefines class, politics and personhood itself
Navneet AlangThe Outside Man
A celebrity memoir from a uniquely talented artist on the edge of fame, and Hollywood itself
John SemleyNo Nudes, Please—We’re Canadian
Our national artistic fixation on landscapes came at a cost
Devon Smither
Haunted by Weird Willie
The remarkable afterlife of our strangest PM—and what we want from politicians
Charlotte Gray
Couched in Verse
In Molly Peacock’s latest collection, poetic form, like psychoanalysis, offers safe passage through perilous waters
Amanda JerniganThe Woman Inside
In Barbara Gowdy’s new novel, an unusual haunting sparks a deep reflection on motherhood, family, and identity
Zoe WhittallVery Magnetic North
Uncovering an epic failed expedition, and its hold on the Canadian psyche
Ken Coates
A Man of Our Time
Lawren Harris is once again jolted out of his casket, in reappraisals that paint him as a resolute modernist and urbanite
Sarah Milroy
On Manhood, Marriage and the “Neo-patriarchy”
Rachel Giese in conversation with Stephen Marche
Rachel Giese and Stephen Marche
Non-disclosure
In her anti-confessional new novel, Rachel Cusk uncovers in others what it feels like to be human
Kate Taylor
Critical Un-favourite
The irascible, brilliant, greatly underrated John Metcalf, and how we talk about CanLit
Andy Lamey
Going It Alone
The marvellous, single-minded, doggedly strange passion of citizen scientists
Patchen BarssThe Muse Wore a Low-Cut Blouse
W.P. Kinsella’s posthumous book reveals a writer more cynical than his famous baseball novel might suggest
Norman SniderBeauty and the Accidental
In watching birds, a writer finds solace, and lessons for the creative life
Candace Savage
Extreme Makeover
What kind of capital city will a multibillion-dollar renovation of Parliament create?
Sarah Jennings
On Feminism, Islam and Civil Liberties in an Era of Fear
Ausma Zehanat Khan in conversation with Monia Mazigh
Losing Our Heads
Neuroscience is a modern obsession worth billions. But is it the best way to understand ourselves?
Ian Gold and Suparna Choudhury
Should Fort Mac Still Exist?
In the fury of rebuilding after the fire, few are asking more fundamental questions about a struggling northern boomtown
Nancy Macdonald
Text and the Single Guy
Devon Code’s debut novel is about young men united by ideas, the stranger the better
Andrew Forbes
Dancing Around the Point
How can two music lovers have a book-length conversation about music that manages to evade the subject almost entirely?
John BeckwithGood Mother, Bad Mother
Emma Donoghue’s novel makes the case for loving hearts over biological ties
Sandra Martin
Unfriended
Ignored by modern philosophy, maligned by the Enlightenment, friendship hasn’t had a champion since the Greeks
Patrick KeeneyShaken, and Stirred
Plumbing a millennia-old human relationship with seismicity
Sir Christopher OndaatjeBubble Weary in Trump's America
A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation
Padma Viswanathan
Can the Humanities Save Us?
The crisis in education, and the surprising uses of the liberal arts
Alexander Macleod , Harry Critchley , Laura Penny and Rita Shelton DeverellThe Logroller's Waltz
“Trenchant!” “Transcendent!” A “riveting exploration” of the book-blurbing economy
John Semley
The Shadow of the Shoah
Two memoirs of the Nazi era are a needed reminder for our own times
Michiel Horn
The Mythical Indigenous Protagonist
Katherena Vermette’s new novel, and how we read Indigenous fiction
Carleigh BakerMultilateralism in the Age of Trump
Canada under the Liberals seems poised to rejoin the world. But how does multilateralism work in the era of Trumpism and Brexit?
David M. MaloneIron Curtains! The Bolshoi's Dark Side
Ballet’s transcendent form has long been pitted against political intrigue in Russia
John Fraser
The Truth about Trudeaumania
The fictional roots, and legacy, of a defining Canadian moment
Kenneth Whyte
Rape Memoirs: Our Other True-Crime Obsession
What does the profusion of rape memoirs ask of sexual assault laws, and of readers?
Sarah Liss
What the U.S. election could mean for Canada
David Frum in conversation with Gary Doer
David Frum and Gary Doer
Country of Eternal Forgetting
A masterful literary archivist explores a future unburdened by the past
Donna Bailey Nurse
Conflict Averse
Power, the new victimhood and the disappearance of personal accountability
Andy Lamey
On Shakespeare, Superheroes and a Cat-Bird-Human
Jeet Heer in conversation with Margaret Atwood
Jeet Heer and Margaret Atwood
Adventures of a political gun-for-hire
Canada’s David Axelrod tells tales from his 50-odd campaigns
Robin V. Sears
What George Did
Zoe Whittall on rape culture as seen from the inner circle of the accused
Adele BarclayCanLit's invisible hand
Ellen Seligman’s editing was a kind of alchemy—to the end, says the author of the Giller-nominated By Gaslight, the last book she edited
Steven PriceSunshine Tales of a Sketchy Little Town
Story collection marked by tenderness for its characters
Lesley Krueger
A Niche for Mainstream Journalism
Are journalists helping to create bad public policy?
Madelaine Drohan
Music and Politics in China
Madeleine Thien has written her most ambitious work to date
Bronwyn Drainie
The Fix Is In
Exploring the role of gerrymandering in Canadian political history
Charles Paul Hoffman
March of the Millennials
A leader of Quebec’s Maple Spring outlines his program for change
Simon Black
From Crusader to Mayor
A city hall veteran recalls a pivotal time in Toronto’s municipal history
Ray Conlogue
Saskatchewan Journey
Diane Warren’s upside-down novel is peopled with vivid small-town characters
Susan WalkerCross-Border Cowboy
Owen Wister’s The Virginianmay have a real-life Canadian connection
Michael DaweSettling Accounts
A former civil servant’s memoir highlights intrigue and betrayal in Ottawa.
Jen GersonStyle and Substance
What happens when we view legal judgements as literary documents?
Allan C. HutchinsonCanada to the Rescue
Recalling a high-water mark in the history of Canadian diplomacy
David M. Malone
Victims of Geology
Don Gillmor’s unhappy fictional hero rides the boom and bust cycles of the oil patch
Diane GuichonDip ’n’ Dunk
An award-winning graphic novel celebrates chemical photobooths and their legacy
Kenton SmithAttawapiskat versus Ottawa
How a students’ campaign on an isolated reserve overcame years of official neglect
Christopher MooreNever to Forget
A new look at the lingering legacy of Newfoundland’s climb to prosperity
Jeffrey F. Collins
A Question of Bias
An early attempt to put Canada’s book review culture under a critical lens
Margaret Atwood
Our Kissing Cousins
A bold attempt to save the bonobos, one of our closest simian relatives
Linda SpaldingHome of the Whopper
Patrick deWitt’s latest novel is a smart and charming entertainment
Jack KirchhoffPromised Land
An aboriginal activist makes a case for full recognition of aboriginal title
Pamela D. Palmater
Making Amends
How reforming museum practices is helping revive aboriginal spirituality
Victor Rabinovitch
Horror Undimmed
A feminist scholar investigates the place of the Montreal massacre in our collective memory
Joan Sangster
Short Skirts and Water Cures
An intimate look at the unconventional life of a 19th-century trailblazer
Linda KayHugh Made Me Love You
Marina Endicott’s comedy of small-town manners is told in many voices
Jack KirchhoffEmblems of Adversity
How the Poles and the Jews are memorializing their troubled past
Michael R. Marrus
Be Careful What You Wish For
How developing countries helped shape the post-war global economy
John Hancock
Idealists on the Beat
New diplomatic goals have starved Canadian support for better policing abroad
Terry GlavinAmid the Alien Corn
Desperate, heroic characters make John Vaillant’s first novel a thrilling ride
Katherine Ashenburg
Some Special Soldiers
The little-known tale of black recruits from Canada in the Civil War
John BoykoA Different Kind of Journalism
Powerful, passionate, patriotic and personal—that was Matthew Halton
Paul Knox
The Moving Finger Writes
Technology and spirituality unite in this intriguing concoction
Wayson Choy
Of People, Pride and Potatoes
How international development has helped—and hurt—Andean farming villages
Arno Kopecky
Larger Than Life
A more positive view of the man who brought us "Vive le Québec libre!"
Daniel Stoffman
What Might Have Been
Veteran observers go behind the scenes of the second referendum
George AndersonSea to Sea Power
The centuries of naval struggle that shaped Canada's development
Peter William Twist
Don’t Call It a Comeback
While Indigenous people keep resisting assimiliation, it’s Canada that needs to catch up
Hayden King and Shiri Pasternak
Une nouvelle belle époque?
Famous for showing a return to old inequities, Piketty found something else in Canada
George FallisMedical Mountaineering
A quiet Toronto brain surgeon, overshadowed up to now by Wilder Penfield, gets his own biography
Michael BlissCanadian Culture: To Protect or Not to Protect?
A massive new study situates Canadian cultural industries in a world context
Ron AtkeyA Tribunal Born of Fear and Hope
How a Canadian judge forced Slobodan Milosevic to face his accusers
John EnglishFrom Neglect to Splendour
A dazzling work of scholarship dissects the tumultuous history of Canada’s premier art institution
Allan GotliebWhite Hot Manifesto in a Grey-Shaded World
Two authors paint a canvas of heroes and cowards with no recognition of consequence
Janice Gross SteinA Larger Role for Unions
Organized labour may be shrinking but the rhetoric is still upbeat
Frances WoolleySaving Medicare
As costs steadily rise, we need to build a healthcare system outside hospitals
Michael DecterLiving on Corporate Welfare
Will Bombardier's pipeline to government funding end any time soon?
Andrew AllentuckThe "Hamlet" of the Maritimes
Portrait of a political leader who can't seem to make up his mind
Geoffrey StevensSomething Rotten
A writer dubiously equates the sins of a reporter with those of a politician
Peter DesbaratsThe Traps of Progress
How many dead ends must we hit before we find our way to the future?
Salem AlatonForeign Policy: The Youth Version
A Foreign Affairs maven assesses a bold new prescription for Canada abroad
David M. MaloneA Nationalist Giant
A young popular historian assesses Pierre Berton’s impressive legacy
Ken McGooganVices Then and Now
A new book looks at the colourful history of moral regulation in Canada
James F. Cosgrave
An Army Astray
Canada's long-standing struggle between the military and politicians
Philippe Lagassé
Paper Promises
By avoiding treaty obligations, Canada undermines its own legal basis
Terry Fenge and Tony PenikettIllegal Wars
It was Kosovo, not Iraq, that started the subversion of international law
Thomas S. AxworthyThe Nature-Nurture Square Dance
In which our reviewer claims that sociobiology is here to stay
Michael Ruse"But We Were Feeling Happy"
Can the paradoxes of human emotion be best explained by art or by experimental psychology?
Rebecca Saxe"Ization" versus "Ism"
Let's define our terms before predicting the end of the world as we know it
Jennifer WelshThe Bear Tamer Reconsidered
Marian Engel’s letters revive interest in a neglected CanLit icon
Sandra MartinThe East Wants In
But casting the rest of Canada as villains isn’t the best way to equality
Matthew Mendelsohn
Parliamentary Discontent
Many MPs leave politics disillusioned—but what does that really mean for our democracy?
Ken Dryden
On Treacherous Ground
The CBC once flourished by abandoning pop programming. Can it do that again?
Barry Kiefl
Market Rules
New layers of complexity make international financial oversight more challenging every day
Jennifer Jeffs
Chains Unearthed
A ground-breaking work on the black and aboriginal slaves who helped build New France finally translated into English
Lawrence Hill
Atlantic Hustle
The regional origins of undertakings from the Bricklin to McCain Foods
Margaret Conrad
The Two Albertas
Old differences split the province, but are mostly ignored in the East
Harvey LockeBringing the War Home
An IED attack in Afghanistan echoes through small-town Newfoundland
Alexander HollenbergThe Lure of Bullion
A new book charts the rollercoaster of gold’s fortunes through the ages
Sir Christopher Ondaatje
The Incrementalist
Stephen Harper is a patient man on a mission: remaking Trudeau’s Canada
Max Nemni
A Glimpse of the Past Imagined
Toronto’s largely ignored lakeside comes evocatively to life
Grace WestcottNation Building by the Column Inch
How a century-old news cooperative helped Canadians learn who they are
Beth HaddonHeroes and Windbags
A search for political meaning, from Machiavelli to Weber and beyond
John EnglishRedefining Citizenship
The Muslim-Canadian experience raises uncomfortable national questions
Melanie Adrian
The Globalized Great Lakes
An environmentalist charts the ruin—and possible revival—of the continent’s heart
Wayne GradyGetting Aboriginal Rights Right
Two new books take very different approaches to how aboriginal rights should be treated in Canada
Peter H. Russell
Deception, Betrayal, and Terrorism
The Cuban-American vendetta produces a sobering and puzzling tale
Reg WhitakerThe Terror and Pity of Contact
Native-Jesuit relations under a brilliant fictional microscope
Marian Botsford FraserStagnate or Innovate? That Is the Question
Our whole way of life depends on answering it correctly
David Crane
The Stuff of Nightmares
A front-line journalist reflects on his coverage of the Afghan War
Terry Glavin
Ethnic Cleansing, Canadian Style
Many myths are cleared away in the sober historical analysis
Andrew Woolford
Facing the Future
The decisions to be made about aging in Canada are both personal and public
Sandra Martin
Questioning Higher Education
As digital alternatives get cheaper and easier, can universities justify their existence?
Anthony C. Masi
A Quiet Exodus
Welcoming Baha'i refugees from Iran was a humanitarian landmark—and an enduring immigration lesson
Geoffrey Cameron
The Politics on Our Plate
Should we push away from globalized food production, or just keep digging in?
Pierre Desrochers and Sarah Elton
Old on the Road
The adventures of two seniors who give their caregivers the slip
Marian Botsford FraserProdigies under Pressure
A deft introduction to the savage sport of music competition
Deborah Kirshner
Political Inheritance
The nationalist blurring of "Left" and "Right," from Scotland and Ireland to Quebec
Jerry White
Making Politics More Welcoming
More than 40 countries let non-citizen residents vote municipally. Why not Canada?
Graeme Cook and Patti T. Lenard
Demand Better
Fixated on energy supply, from wind to oil sands, most policy makers ignore our greenest opportunities
Michael Cleland
Decline of the Downtown Elite?
Canada’s old leaders lost power by ignoring new realities, argues this lively polemic
Yuen Pau Woo
Eating and Surviving
The case for more government support of sustainable food—and less meat in our diets
Jennifer ClappWhat's Happened to CanLit?
In classrooms today, cultural nationalism seems to be a non-starter
Michael LaPointe
Exporting Dispossession?
Through Canada’s global mining dominance, domestic rules have world-wide effects
Philippe Le Billon
Resuscitating the Working Class
Can a 1930s movement show the way ahead for labour today?
Sam Gindin
“Spy, Russians, Secrets, Sold”
In the Jeffrey Delisle affair, one thing is certain: baffling incompetence on all sides
Wesley WarkNorthwest Passage Hold ’Em
For an Arctic sovereignty win, Canada needs to honour its treaty with Nunavut’s Inuit
Terry Fenge
Beverley Baxter in Empireland
A Canadian columnist beat the British drum, at Lord Beaverbrook’s behest
Ramsay CookThe Nobel of Numbers
How a Hamilton native played mathematical peacemaker after World War One
Douglas Wright
Neighbourhood Watch
Bracing insights into Canada’s always uneasy relationship with our closest friend
David M. Malone
Confederation as Conspiracy
Was Canada’s tenth province really strong-armed into the country?
Jeff Webb
Keeping the Dream Alive
Canada and South Africa once seemed the closest of allies. What happened?
David Hornsby
Return of the Robber Barons
Chrystia Freeland asks if we can tell “makers” from “takers” among the new super-rich
Donald J. JohnstonCanada’s Surprising One Percent
Never have so many been paid so much to care so little
George Fallis
Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow
Why don’t Canadians save more of their resource wealth?
Madelaine DrohanThe Western “Colonies”
Our notion of equal provinces from sea to sea is surprisingly new
Roger GibbinsAfter Le grand dérangement
Acadians exiles ended up everywhere from Louisiana swamps to London slums
Donald Akenson
Scrapping Welfare
The case for guaranteeing all Canadians an income above the poverty line
Hugh Segal
A Tale of Two Massacres
The haunting parallels—and striking differences—between a pair of Native uprisings
Myrna Kostash
Sympathy for the Devil
Gary Bettman’s rise to head enforcer for the NHL ownership
Christopher DornanOur Muslim Citizens
Are they any different from previous waves of Catholics or Jews?
Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos
Physics as Humanism
A gifted communicator argues for better living through better science
Mélanie Frappier
Blood and Treasure
When wars involve natural resources, the only sure thing is complexity
Madelaine Drohan
Marching as to War
How two unlikely prime ministers steered Canada through the great 20th-century battles
Adam ChapnickBerry’d Alive
How the Canadian media have used new technologies to shut out the public
Christopher WaddellYou Can't Get There from Here
Why Liberal-NDP marriage plans lead straight into a minefield
Robin V. SearsChanging Prescriptions
One of Canada’s leading journalists gives medicare a timely checkup
Carolyn H. TuohyResource Fever
In recent clashes over mining, both Canadians and Peruvians look rapacious
Ian Smillie
A Dark Dystopia
This petro-history paints modern humans as helpless captives to our own high-tech servants
Alanna MitchellEchoes in the Cypress Hills
A review of A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
Simon M. Evans
A Slow-Burning Fire
Canadian feminism’s personal turn, after generations of collective struggle
Rosemary SpeirsAn Unexpected Water Crisis
Canada’s changing climate means more droughts, floods and storms—along with less ability to predict them
Robert SandfordFinding a Canadian Refuge
A liberal gay man can’t avoid estrangement from his beloved Yemeni family
Karim AlrawiMeet Me in St. Louis, Louis
A trip to the 1904 World’s Fair opens the door on Canadian women’s journalism
Sandra Martin
Under Unblinking Eyes
Despite public faith in expanding camera surveillance, there is no clear evidence it makes us safer
Steve HewittElection or Revolution?
It will be some time before we know what really happened in 2011
Anthony WestellThe Consolations of Anthropomorphism
In spite of everything we know, the world still revolves around us
Salem Alaton
Beyond War and Peacekeeping
With armed conflict in steady decline, the usual debates over Canada’s military seem increasingly dated
Jennifer Welsh
Van Gogh’s Bastards
Celebration of his work—and life—reflects our age’s guiding obsession
Andrew Potter
King Richard’s Lament
He did his best, maintains the former CBC head, but the whole world was against him
Suanne Kelman
“Dear Sir or Madam...”
A Faulknerian take on oil, revenge and email scams, from Calgary to Lagos
David PenhaleKeeping Party Leaders Honest
Canadians do it differently from most—and quite possibly not as well
Christopher Moore
Liberal Baggage
The national party’s greatest burden may be its past success
David Eaves and Taylor OwenFossil Policies
In a world ever thirstier for oil, Canada’s approach to energy development needs fundamental rethinking
George AndersonThe Very Model of a Modern Governor General
Roméo LeBlanc filled the bill with loyalty, friendliness, and patriotism
Geoffrey Stevens
Who Controls North America?
Today, even the U.S. government is just one of many players
Isabel StuderThe Jamaican Dilemma
Slavery’s legacy plays out in a story of absent mothers and distant fathers
Donna Bailey NurseThe Promise and Glory of Stem Cells
How two Canadian scientists stumbled upon a landmark discovery
Michael Bliss
Hemispheric Strangers
Despite many similarities between Canada and Brazil, their relationship has a long way to go
Lorna Jean Edmonds and W.E. Hewitt
A Right to Clean Air?
Constitutional protection for the environment may leave people out of luck
Bruce Pardy
Confederation's Martyr
Ahead of his time, D’Arcy McGee died for the values prized by Canadians today
Victor Rabinovitch
Does the Past Have a Future?
It turns out history can be spelled many different ways
Kenneth C. DewarLove and Marriage Canadian-Style
A trove of letters provides a glimpse into early 20th-century love and courtship
Elizabeth Abbott
The Ties that Bind
Rational policy alone can't hold communities together, or make them good
Leah BradshawThe Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus
On the westward shift of Canadian power and values
John Ibbitson
A Brilliant Polemic
One of Canada’s NGO leaders lays out what’s wrong with the world of aid
Ian Smillie
An Unsentimental Portrait
From its realism, intensity, and wrinkles emerges a Macdonald for our times
John English
All Over the Map
In riding politics, the only common factor seems to be idiosyncrasy
Martha Hall Findlay
A Heavily Qualified Greatness
Was it luck or astuteness that stamped Mackenzie King’s extraordinary career?
T. Stephen Henderson
Afghanistan’s Price
By downplaying PTSD, our government makes soldiers and their families bear the costs of war
Alison HowellHigh Noon at the CRTC
New in town, players like Netflix pose a fundamental challenge to Canadian content regulations
Simon DoyleChildbirth, Cash and Culture
An illuminating comparison of two surprisingly similar diasporas
Sean T. Cadigan
Is Public Service Delivery Obsolete?
Why competition between civil servants, corporations, and non-profits is good for everyone
Tony DeanFinding Our Reflection
From Harold Innis and George Grant to Ursula Franklin, Canadian thinkers have pondered the technologies that help hold the country together
Michael ValpyBard Versus Bard
Shakespeare changed the world, but he was no revolutionary—sexual or otherwise
Robert FothergillShowdown in Ottawa
A blow-by-blow account of the struggle to patriate the Canadian constitution
Peter H. RussellFree-Fall Employment
The definition of a full-time job is changing radically in Canada.
Rachel PulferThe Rights of Refugees
What Europe’s problems can teach Canada about a growing international concern
Doug SaundersThe Big One
Credible new studies show that British Columbia may be in for the continent’s worst megadisaster
Florin DiacuDogma's Bulldog
Why has a smart journalist written such a simple defence of the Catholic church?
Michael Valpy“Responsibilizing” the Poor
An analysis, this time from the left, of why foreign aid programs don’t work
Ian Smillie
Suckered by America
If it keeps buying the myth of U.S. supremacy, Canada will never come into its own
Conrad Black
Who Calls the Shots?
An inquiry into the effect of Jewish and Arab lobbies on Canadian Middle East policy
Brent Sasley
Our Own Ancient Mariner
As he turns 90, Farley Mowat may be the country’s most influential writer ever
Ken McGooganBruno's Brilliant Heresy
Worlds orbiting distant stars have become a tantalizing reality
Robert Charles Wilson
A New Vision
Quebec’s most important federalist voice describes the province’s future within Canada
Joseph E. Magnet
Solidarity Revisited
What past legal battles tell us about the Canadian workplace today
Michael Lynk
A Caribbean Longshot
How Antigua beat the United States on internet gambling — and why it has nothing to show for it
The Frozen Bodies of Edward S. Curtis
A new collaborative play and photographic series tackle the representation of aboriginal peoples and the legacy of colonialism
Wanda Nanibush
The Problem with Neutrality
It’s wrong to be even-handed when children’s lives are at stake
Charles Blattberg
A Life Worth Living
A wise, inventive—and refreshingly graphic—meditation on how to be an artist
Esi EdugyanChildren As “Weapon Systems”
A general dedicates his life to ending the use of child soldiers worldwide
W. Andy KnightTaxi Driver Syndrome
Behind-the-scenes immigration changes are creating new problems on top of old ones
Jeffrey G. ReitzOur Overlooked Diaspora
Canada’s millions of citizens abroad could be a national treasure—given the right strategy
Jennifer WelshLife in the Afternoon
Will aging boomers continue to make society dance to their tune?
Lyndsay GreenPlus ça change…
A new focus on cultural intelligence in the military takes us back over well-trodden ground
David J. BercusonOcean Battleground
Two books explore the contentious prospects for traditional fisheries and aquaculture
Dean Bavington
Fairy Tales for Men
Winnipeg director Guy Maddin is one of Canada's most challenging auteurs
Noreen Golfman
Sex Slaves in Canada
A lucrative criminal trade flourishes under the radar of indifferent governments
Amir AttaranProvocative Idealist
One novelist profiles another in this latest take on the Richler legacy
Norman RavvinNews for the World?
Trying to globalize journalism might cause more problems than it solves
Paul KnoxA Battle for Reputation
The story of two Canadian military giants in fearsome personal combat
James C. BaillieA World Turned Upside Down
To face an age of climate change, Twitter and counterinsurgency, Canada’s foreign policy establishment needs fresh ideas
Taylor OwenPills in the Bedroom
The “discovery” — and marketing — of erectile dysfunction’s female equivalent
Wendy McElroyForcing Ourselves to Vote
As fewer Canadians turn up at the polls, compulsory voting is a choice to consider
Lisa Young and Steve PattenDashed Hopes
A careful look at four ex-Soviet states shows little but disillusionment and greed
Desmond MortonAn Exaggerated Demise
Boosted by still-thriving industry, Ontario is headed for an economic renaissance
Dimitry AnastakisCinderella City
How Hogtown transformed itself into one of the world’s great cultural capitals
Trina McQueenA Slippery Debate
Black-and-white moralizing about the oil sands slides too easily into caricature
Patrick BrethourCanada’s Boswell
The country came of age, culturally speaking, through one man’s voice.
Peter C. NewmanA Classic Victorian Yarn
Stunning scenery, oily foreign tricksters and priceless archaeology
Donald AkensonFrom Manners to Manhood
A comic novel about the difference between being proper and being decent
Mark AbleyBridging the Divide
Sheema Khan describes how a Canadian business executive has made common cause with the women of Yemen
Sheema KhanDarwinists and Divinity
A whirlwind tour through western thought explores the big questions
Salem AlatonThe Thinking Man’s Marxist
From Montreal youth to Oxford chair, G.A. Cohen became one of our era’s great philosophical minds
Andy LameyUntying the Knot
A new book untangles historical confusion and contemporary anxieties about marriage
Stephanie CavanaughFear-Driven Policy
Ottawa’s harsh new penal proposals won’t make us safer, just poorer—and less humane
Graham Stewart and Michael JacksonThe Climate Change Olympics
Perhaps some healthy provincial competition can get Canada moving
Mark JaccardA Gem Worth Waiting For
An Icelandic-Canadian novel appears in English after 110 years
David ArnasonOpportunity or Temptation?
Plans for private property on reserves could cost First Nations their independence
Pamela D. PalmaterWords of an Artist
Bill Reid, the extraordinary Haida sculptor, was also an impressive writer
Norbert RuebsaatA Shameful Track Record
The Olympic movement plays fast and loose with basic democratic values
Laura RobinsonBlind Oracles
Researchers have developed models to predict everything from earthquakes to pandemics. The trouble is, they don't work
David OrrellOur Healthiest Industry?
Organized crime is flourishing in Canada, just as it always has
Stephen SchneiderThe Myth of Chindia
Rising regional tensions undermine a new book’s rosy forecast for Asia
Jonathan HolslagGenocide or “A Vast Tragedy”?
University students in an Alberta classroom try to decide
Myrna KostashSuccess in the Slums?
A blueprint for urban development drawn from some of the world’s poorest communities
Salem AlatonBetween Euphoria and Fear
Has traditional microeconomics ignored the mood swings that drive financial crises?
Janice Gross SteinListen to the North
Cramming northerners’ needs into a southern model just isn’t working
John Ralston SaulVision, Reason, Commitment
A Bangladeshi NGO combines the best of business and government
John RichardsDid the Banks Go Crazy?
Whatever economists might think, rationality and efficiency don’t always go together
Joseph HeathA Loaded Anniversary
Books and pundits tackle the Plains of Abraham, but do they go far enough?
Jack MitchellA Dying Breed
Some journalists teeter between recklessness and bravery in their hunt for the story
Jeffrey DvorkinOur Feudal Immigration Policy
Why should an accident of birth determine who benefits from citizenship?
Andrew CoyneBad Faith?
A prominent scholar, rabbi, and government appointee claims that same-sex marriage is unjust
Charles BlattbergRevisiting a Powerful Myth
A new history and an opera retell the tale of the Children’s Crusade
Ray ConlogueThe Ugly Canadian
Forget middle power. Forget model citizen. We’re becoming one of the bad kids on the block
Amir AttaranTrial by Anecdote
A controversial polemicist takes on Canada's commitment to human rights
Mark J. FreimanCreating Another Einstein
The money and intrigue behind Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute
Sheilla JonesIntellectual Sleight of Hand
Where is Michael Ignatieff himself in this new version of the family album?
Ron GrahamDistilling Mute Despair
A Quebec cartoonist’s sojourn in Burma produces an eloquent portrait of forced silence
Jeet HeerWhen Good Drugs Go Bad
Two books examine the cultural landscape around tranquilizers and LSD
Dan MalleckPrivate Thoughts in Public Language
The burgeoning autism narrative may reflect the pathology of our era
Ian HackingWhat’s Race Got to Do with It?
A startling new analysis of the difference between Canadian and U.S. healthcare funding
Gregory P. MarchildonA Very American Champlain
A U.S. historian provides quite a new take on Canada’s “founding father”
Ronald RudinA Canadian Visionary
Research into the life of Holman Hunt unearthsan intriguing and important figure.
Katharine LochnanCanada’s Homeless Portrait Gallery
A historic collection falls victim to economic and intellectual uncertainty
Charlotte GrayOur Canadian Republic
Do we display too much deference to authority—or not enough?
Christopher MooreSpiritual Dissent
Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist Party and their apocalyptic struggle for China
Jeremy PaltielAn Informed Citizenry?
Expanding media in China does not necessarily mean a challenge to power
Bernie Michael FrolicRich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief
New Brunswick's great patron comes in for some dark re-evaluation
Gregory P. MarchildonProgressivism’s End
In Obama, both Americans and Canadians can see the promise of something new
David Eaves and Taylor OwenPolitical Islam Versus Secularism
A new book sparks a heated debate between Muslims of different schools
Nader HashemiThe Dove Is Never Free
Relief agencies struggle with confused focus and political co-optation
Ian SmillieA Steady Eye
David Levine has captured the artistic and political greats of his era with nothing but a pencil
Brian GableThe Noisy Christian Right
In this country, it seems, we really do like our religion kept private
Michael Valpy
Does Independence Matter?
From Elections Canada to the nuclear watchdog, the Harper government seems to disagree
Lorne SossinClosed Off from the World
A new book catalogues the injustices of breakaway Mormon communities
Martha BaileyThe Holocaust in Hungary
A family saga highlights altruism alongside deliberate cruelty.
Anna PorterMétis Imposter
A white Ontarian assumed Métis identity and convinced many, including himself
Mike EvansRavines and Reality
A bumbling narrator searches for the dark and telling moment in his past
Marianne ApostolidesA History of Hypocrisy
Canadian complicity links U.S. Cold War torture with cases like Maher Arar’s
Regan BoychukThe Posthumous Richler
The chronicler of St. Urbain Street is being increasingly chronicled
Sandra MartinBold Prescription for Our Cities
A respected analyst imagines a reconfiguration of the country
Anne GoldenThe Adventurers Are Back
Two new books on the history and the archaeology of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Peter C. NewmanThe Nunavummiut: Politically Engaged Citizens
But this study looks at them rather than listens to them
John BaglowOur Man in Bhutan
How a Canadian Jesuit founded a secular education system in a remote mountain nation
David M. MaloneYour Brain: Flexible or Hard-Wired?
A new book’s claims about brain plasticity may be overstated
Rebecca SaxeWho's Stupid?
A Montreal writer tries to blame Albertans for all our environmental sins
Patrick BrethourMonumental or Vainglorious?
An examination of the Mormon attempt to catalogue the human race
Salem AlatonFantasy Foreign Policy
A new book on Canada in the world is deemed more therapeutic than realistic
Ezra LevantA Province Poised for Leadership
Gifted with resources, Alberta moves toward centre stage
Roderick FraserClearing the Air on Climate Change
A new book goes a major distance but not far enough
John RobinsonThe Trial Coverage on Trial
Between the fawners and the tricoteuses, journalism is found guilty
Suanne KelmanTeenage Mutant Supreme Court Judges
The Canadian copyright debate takes some strange metaphysical turns
Christopher MooreThe Explanation We Never Heard
Six months after attending a controversial Tehran conference, a Canadian professor charges the media and his own university with ignorance and intolerance
Shiraz DossaPOW! BLAM! ZOWIE! eh?
A new book unearths the hidden curiosities of Canadian comic book art
Jeet HeerNo Financial Cachet
Why are Canadians so unwilling to compete for the big pie of world trade?
Andrew AllentuckOne-Note History
Religion is just one of many factors that lead humankind to war
Thabit A.J. AbdullahA Window or a Mirror?
A new book produces startling ideas about the future of Canadian television
Trina McQueenThe View from Alice Munro
With canny lies and family truths, a fiction writer mines her own life
Margaret-Ann Fitzpatrick-HanlyA Place with Pizzazz
How an ethnic enclave morphed into a trend-setting neighbourhood
Kenneth BagnellNuclear Sales and Service
With no new deals since 1996, AECL faces a challenging future
Murray CampbellNative Ingenuity
First Nations groups knew not only how to harvest but also how to plant the sea
Christopher Arnett"Big Media Bad Thing"
How a Senate committee wrote a media report with its head in the sand
Christopher DornanAre Interests Really Value-Free?
A salvo from the “realist” school of Canadian foreign relations
Jennifer Welsh“So Deep, So Vicious, So Brutal”
The scourge of Canadian racial profiling is documented in a new book.
Royson JamesWho’s Afraid of Alice Munro?
A long-awaited biography gives the facts, but not the mystery, behind this writer’s genius
Magdalene RedekopGetting Smart about Cities
A journalist lays out a primer of Canada’s urban landscapes
John HonderichThe Ambivalent Imperialist
A modern take on an Edwardian British adventurer in South Asia
Ken McGooganAn American de Tocqueville in Canada
Why Quebec separation would really, really matter
Stephen Clarkson