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The Portrait of a Reader

On a first-name basis

Shout

A poem.

Nova Scotia Architecture

A poem.

The City

A poem.

Ghost Bike

A poem.

The Young Man and the Spree

When Hemingway was dispatched to Kingston

Three’s a Crowd

Leanne Toshiko Simpson turns to fiction

Captured

John Delacourt’s latest political thriller

Paw Print

Tammy Armstrong blurs fact and fiction

Agent Orange

Two takes on the state of democracy

Waxing Poetic

Charles Taylor searches for meaning

Another Round

Michael Lista returns to poetry

For Art’s Sake

Heather O’Neill imagines a war-torn world

On the Hunt

Rod Moody-Corbett’s remarkable debut

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

The Middle

Essays on fragmented identity

French Connections

One writer’s indulgent detour

Of Humble Origins

The glitz and glam of a grassroots movement

Fortunes and Funnel Cakes

What Patty Conklin created

A Northern Light

The life and times of Martha Black

Food Fight

When a mogul rewrote his will

Regulate and Chill

It’s full stream ahead for Bill C-11

Those Ancient Lands

Where and when did this conflict begin?

Words on the Street

The stories our place names tell

Cruel Summer

An iconic town in the line of fire

Shelling Peas

A poem.

Wolf Tones

A poem.

Saturday Morning, East Pender Street

A poem.

Some Highs & Lows in the Life of Stephan G. Stephansson, Icelandic Canadian poet (1853–1927)

A poem.

The Jesuit Revelations

Once upon a time in Huronia

Figures of Speech

On prime ministerial oratory

Pentagon North

Does Canada have a military-industrial complex?

Stacked Deck

An engrossing book by Michelle Hébert

A Tale of One City

Maxime Raymond Bock’s ode to Montreal

Northern Exposure

Katherena Vermette’s new novel

Prism Break

The latest from Rachel Cusk

Valley Girl

Scott Alexander Howard plays with time

Bear, Naked Lady

A grizzly affair

Refined Language

How the oil industry rebranded itself

Frieze Frames

When Lord Elgin called dibs

Hitting the Ground Walking

Along Ontario’s Bruce Trail

Snoozefest

Deep reflections on sleep

A Peninsula Divided

Remembering Canada’s role in Korea

Who Do They Think They Are?

When extraordinary writers prove fallible

Pilgrim at Taddle Creek

Moments of tranquility in Wychwood Park

Abstract Value

Beholding Rothko in Paris

Skippy

A prime minister in the making

Continental Conflict

The American Civil War revisited

The Kamloops Kid

War crimes, treason, and Kanao Inouye

Temperatures Rising

This year of ups and downs

Thorn Hedge

A poem.

I Am Thinking of the Road to the Beach

A poem.

Middle of August

A poem.

The Strand

A poem.

Island Adventure

From Japan to Haida Gwaii

The Subject Matters

Lynne Kutsukake plays with perspective

Une gang de fous

Christophe Bernard’s cock-eyed world

Herd Mentality

When the buffalo come to town

Red-Letter Gay

The Gospel according to Anthony Oliveira

Connection Lost

How sisters became strangers

On the Origin of Stories

Six writers discuss their craft

Kindred Spirits

Kit Dobson’s ambitious debut

Step by Step

Long walks toward reconciliation

Disciplinary Action

For the love of the humanities

Books and Belonging

M. G. Vassanji and Gary Barwin reflect

Canada Daze

Barrelling toward a strange kind of death

Under the Hoodie

Catherine Dorion did politics differently

Shushed

When defamation law fails us

Sexy, Eh?

Behind the closed doors of a nation

The Breakup

When the waters rose in Moose Factory

Stars and Swipes

Shared moments and diverging paths

The Operatives

Nahlah Ayed uncovers their story

Rogers That

A very public family feud

Wormholes

Thinking out of the glass jar

Cover the Territory

Essays on a deeper past

Stage Write

I once read differently

A Womb of One’s Own

Moving beyond old certainties

The Magpie & the Moon

A poem

Eggshell

A poem

Mottainai

A poem

For Your Death Day

A poem

Cries from the Deep

A tragedy along the Irish coast

Jaxon Whole

Donald B. Smith makes his case

Food Court of Appeal

Talking shop in Edmonton

Labour Forced

Working away from home

Capital Ideas

Ottawa’s commemorative landscape

Plucked

The Breadbasket’s potash problem

Mountain Do

Those who reach great heights

Guilt Trip

Misguided explorations of modern travel

Heart and Home

A pioneering surgeon’s journey

Time Stamps

It was the golden age of magazines

The Painter’s Papers

A prairie mystic in his own words

Reel Talk

Lights, camera, Quebec!

Liner Notes

Inside Canada’s tortured poets department

Was Like Nightfall

Knockin’ on Homer’s door

What Happened?

Going beyond Colonel Mustard

N Is for No

Sheila Heti from A to Z

East Coast Fish Out of Water

Alex Pugsley goes from Halifax to Toronto

Bedtime Stories

Whose sex is it anyway?

Their Everyday Lives

Two novellas by Nora Gold

Gone Girl

Judith Pond’s debut novel

Bear in Mind

A comedy of errors

Grasping at Straws

This is not the end of the world

Split Decisions

Canada, Quebec, and the next generation

Ex Libris

From the shelves of Duncan Campbell Scott

Out of Service

Inside a historic veterans’ hospital

The Colonist

Richard Blanshard’s brief tenure as governor of Vancouver Island

Claims to Fame

Life before and after the podium

Mission Critical

Bruce Whiteman collects his thoughts

A True Original

The acerbic wit of Samuel Marchbanks

Sessions Supernatural

The ghosts of Winnipeg in black and white

A Berth of One’s Own

Transcontinental train of thought

Little Miss Picky

We all have our reasons

Homeward Bound

Waubgeshig Rice continues the story

In County Mayo

Colin Barrett’s ransom notes

What’s in the Box?

Mandy-Suzanne Wong steps outside

Poem for My Daughters’ Seventh Birthday

A poem.

The Spider Says

A poem.

Why Not

A poem.

Local Illumination

A poem.

Diplomats-in-Chief

Foreign policy from the top down

Their Beautiful Land

An Inuit history of northern Labrador

Sharp Insights

A debut collection from Shashi Bhat

The Trust Spiral

Restoring faith in the media

Truths Be Told

I often pretended to have read it

Commission Concluded

Portapique and the questions still unanswered

Cover Stories

Lying low and flying high

Liar, Liar

Genevieve Scott’s latest novel

Judges and Juries

Two acclaimed titles from Quebec

Nature Boy

Helen Humphreys sounds Walden Pond

Suffering of All Sorts

A Mark Anthony Jarman collection

Pilot Project

A dramatist takes flight

Last Call for the Small-Town Bar

Real conversations shaken and stirred

Kitchen Stuff Plus

The world through Mary Pratt’s eyes

These Distant Shores

Refugee writers on coming to Canada

Pathogen on the Prairie

Unmasking a disastrous response

Not Salt

A poem.

Midway

A poem.

Salt

A poem.

In Left Field

Ed Broadbent and the future of the NDP

Sonnet to the Frost

A poem.

Between Ewe and She

An author and her flock

Heads in the Cloud

On turning a page

Letters Sent Me

When the readers write back

Sega Genesis

The sound of Mauritius

That Inscrutable Thing

Taking on the big one

Motor City Meltdown

Catherine Leroux’s alternative history

Vernality

A poem.

On a Welsh Island (fragment)

A poem.

She Wakes in the Middle of a January Night Thinking of Charles Wright

A poem.

The Edge of This Hill

Elusive to the End

On reading Tolstoy’s masterpiece

Charlotte’s Web

Sean Michaels gets technical

Kiss and Tell

Aley Waterman’s new novel

Search Party

Zalika Reid-Benta turns a city inside out

From Beirut with Love

Christine Estima’s debut collection

Naked Truth

Because colonial habits die hard

On That Note

The music that defined a province

State of the Arts

Max Wyman makes his case

Give and Take

Whose lines are they anyway?

A Song of the Past

Forgotten but not gone

Campaign Confidential

On the run with Terry Fox

The Poet Politician

A biography of Gérald Godin

Road Trip

Traces of a Manitoba past

Model Behaviour

A Haida village as seen in a windy city

They Bred Raptors

How basketball won over a hockey town

For God's Sake

The fight for and against free thought

Writings on the Wall

Two inside looks at China

Twin Peeks

Naomi Klein finds it rather hard to understand

Something at Work

Wade Rowland’s unsettling forecast

Errata

An error nobody could miss

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Grey Area

The Confederates before Confederation

Terrors of the Unknown

Adriana Chartrand’s eerie debut

Western White Pine

A poem

Debatable Material

A century after they gathered

Untoward, the Last Spike

Connecting Canada came at a cost

In the Spotlight

The latest Cundill History Prize finalists

Bump in the Night

The disaster that shook Springhill

By Populist Demand

When urban and rural voters went separate ways

Right Stuff

Essays on conservative thought

The Librarian

Guy Berthiaume on the shelves

Green Guides

Two books to help your garden grow

Taylor Swift and Other Pawns

Seeking substance in a digital echo chamber

The Splice of Life

Moviemaking in Winnipeg

In Hot Water

Now that’s the tea

Errors and Horrors

David Bergen on times of war

Picture This

Sean Dixon’s group of seven

Abandoning the Map

Two novelists subvert convention

Nine Months in Vancouver

Christine Higdon’s latest

Blurred Vision

A novel by Anne Michaels

Line by Line

To assemble an anthology

They Doth Protest

Of castles and capitulations

Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

Chin Up, Canada

Notes from a mellower critic

The Mowats

Love in another era

The Trio from Laval

A clash of the historians

Design Lines

Here, there, over, and away

Two Minutes and Twenty Seconds

The song that changed everything

In a Word

It began with an online course

A Bermuda Short

Publishing a forgotten manuscript

Fowl Lines

Speaking of speakers

Past Imperfect

J. L. Granatstein’s prescient warning

Between Texts

Notes on literary translation

Freedom in Verse

Why I took up poetry

That Fertile Field

What springs from buried lightning

A Supposedly Fun Trip to Ohio

Loop-the-loops and other upheavals

Oh, the Places She’ll Go

Don Gillmor snoops about

The Void

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer looks for answers

Because I Must

Fiction in times of calamity

Bomber Season

A poem.

Ceremonial Matters

On King and country

His Truck Stops Here

The quick end to Jason Kenney’s long career

A Sum of Parts

Paying tribute to John English

The Senator

When Jack Austin went to Ottawa

In the Money

To the racetrack they did go

Winds of Change

Three takes on gentrification

If These Streets Could Talk

Dark days in downtown Vancouver

Private Conversations

On faith and desire

In the Shadow of Giants

Rooting around in the forest

The Melmac Years

My peculiar resin d’être

Designated Respondent

Reading this is voluntary

A Noble Craft

Jason Guriel’s very specific type of fun

Fraudsters Abound

Tom Rachman’s new novel

Tragedy Two Ways

Debuts from Brooke Lockyer and Chelsea Wakelyn

Graft Craft

Zoe Whittall takes on the truth

Notes on a Scandal

Speaking what was once unspeakable

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Smokes Person

The mascots and the message

Beyond the City Limits

Diversity and rural Canada

A Portrait of Grief

Charles Foran turns to memoir

A Formidable Presence

Lise Bissonnette on the record

Preserving What Works

Of civilizations past and present

At a Snail’s Pace

My summer with James Joyce

In the Clouds

Marta Balcewicz looks up

Schools of Thought

Canadian classrooms at cross-purposes

Le critique

Before the referendum came the reviews

Ceiling Fan

How the Sistine Chapel won her over

Mover and Shaker

The Charles Darwin of geology

Face Value

Content and cancellation

The Justice She Sought

Half-told tales of the Second World War

Clock Watching

The nuclear threat lingers still

Just Hand It Over?

The shifting foundations of charitable giving

Emission Impossible

On policies and persuasion

Woke This Morning

Plumbing the depths of a word

Moral Whirligig

A David Adams Richards mosaic

Word Processing

Sisterhood and loss

Mission Brazil

The Maple Leaf beneath a blistering sun

Sweep Stakes

The subtleties of geopolitics

Here Be Dragons

The misadventures of Bill Morneau

Poll Focus

Insights and hindsights on elections past

Where’s Johnny?

On the lost art of public conversation

Anatomy of Melancholy

Gabor Maté on society’s ills

Site Lines

An architectural who’s who

Dissemble No More

Steven Heighton’s final collection

Methodists and Madness

A masterful first novel

In the Same Mould

Visions of a dystopian city

Deep Breaths

Using the tools that we have

Spells for Drunk Girls

A poem

Populist-in-Chief

Diefenbaker and discontent

Crowning Moment

British Columbia before Canada

Crisis Mismanagement

Homelessness in our largest city

A Modern Klondike

Northern Ontario’s fiery ring

Good Morning, Nova Scotia

In the booth with Rick Howe

Diplomatically Speaking

An envoy’s many years of service

In Other Words

Lori Saint-Martin’s life in translation

Bundles of Joy

On the humble dumpling

Double Threat

A global health check

Their Names in Lights

Canadian women who made it big

The Artisans of Big Cove

A mid-century Mi’kmaw cooperative

How We Said Goodbye

Remembering the writer Anne Kingston

In Lightning Flashes

Why does Walter Benjamin haunt us so?

In the Ottawa Valley

An energetic debut

The Weirdness of Everyday Life

An oddly pleasing collection

Title Company

What's in a shared name?

Gobblefunking

To tinker with an icon's prose

Left Behind

Maybe we’re just not that into them

Maleficence

He put a spell on her

Fish Out of Water

A poem

Aggregate Score

To move forward and remember

Habitually Daring

Moshe Safdie looks back

Unknown Fathoms

Tragedy and heroism in Newfoundland

Shaking Edifices

The latest Cundill History Prize finalists

Loan Star

An ode to the little book box

Where the Sidewalk Ended

Alphabet’s aborted plans in Toronto

It Thinks, Therefore . . . ?

As the designs get smarter and smarter

Garden Varieties

Turning leaves new and old

Vintage Years

Two political memoirs

Gaslighting

Chronicles of a greasy campaign

Noteworthy

Two pamphlets that pack a punch

Ruff Ride

Another British road trip

To Sink or Swim

A poetic novel by Dominique Scali

In So Many Words

Definitions of a new reality

Shell Game

On moving too slow

Liberal Interpretations

Making sense of Justin Trudeau and his party

The Shill of the People

Those loudest voices among us

A Moral Absolutist

Who was Rudolf Vrba?

A Little Green

Friends, foes, and Fenians

On This Day

In defence of a beleaguered discipline

From Place to Place to Place

Experiences of South Asian immigrants

The Home Truth

Growing old in our broken system

The Meeting Point

Haitian writers amid Québécois letters

Rock Group

Stories from the Happy Province

Her Majesty’s Archers

Standing on guard in Westminster

For All the Marbles

An iconic photograph turns fifty

The Churn

Media turmoil through the eyes of Bill Fox

Puppeteering and Electioneering

A look back on the 2021 campaign

From Dogmatic Slumbers

A history for our times

Booze Cruise

Tales of Canadian prohibition

Acadian Driftwood

The renewal of a shared consciousness

Diversity 1.0

Three white guys walk into a policy debate

By Whose Authority?

Times of profound revolution

Ho, Ho, No!

There arose such a clatter

New Urban Legends

André Forget’s fresh approach

Sister Act

A novel by Lilian Nattel

Freeze Frame

Buried treasure in a gold rush town

The Undersigned

On staying ahead of the curve

Even the Ashtrays

The finer points of Ron Thom

How Prodigal the Soul

Two writers on living here and there

Bow Tie Confidential

As he wished upon a star

It’s Your Nickel

A supplemental argument

Of Fish and Foundry

Labour shall refresh itself with hope

A Little Bit Deadly

They work their butts off

Grief Observed

A portrait of loss

Mum’s the Word

Slices of writerly life

An Old Refrain

The medic who went around in circles

His Response

George Elliott Clarke’s side of the story

What Big Teeth You Have

On the feared and familiar

The Present Begets the Past

From Montreal to Buenos Aires

Lightning Bolts A-Glowin’

When the world tuned in

Screen and Roll

Dribble like someone is watching

Artist as a Young Man

Remembering David Blackwood

Stories of a People

Saeed Teebi’s debut collection

Drawing Conclusions

Representing the tragedy of Lac-Mégantic

Rumour Has It

A healthy correspondence

The Bear and the Beaver

Eight games, one goal

Yesterday’s News

Our forgotten magnate

Sentence Structure

Views from the inside

The Medical Corps

At the juncture of two oaths

To Lüneburg

An author’s long path

Whims and Longings

In the vicinity of that folio

Me, My Shelf, and I

An account of empty boxes

Sanctuary

In search of good company

Wanted Dead or Alive

Why the Western endures

Remembering Mavis

When she looked out the window

Codex Asado

Those most nourishing ideas

Paper Plane

A poem.

Party Girls

Any given campaign

La moutarde me monte au nez

On the spice of life

As We Know It

For charity’s an argument

Heroic and Imperfect Efforts

The battle to be heard

Miracle Grow

Quebec is doing just fine

Solitary Bird

He wrote this but as an essay

Quick, Clever, and Ready

Who you gonna call?

The Ramble

Memories from the PMO

Uncertain Twilight

Our revels are now ended

Under the Hood

Vaclav Smil sets out to explain

Disrupted Rhythms

September has changed

Elementary?

Investigating a curious figure

The Creator

If only his walls could talk

Bright Yonge Things

Where east meets west

The Tech of the Town

You think you’re so smart

Slings and Arrows

Two critics take aim

Ice Corps

The cold, hard truth

Without Great Seriousness

My tadpoles, my goldfish, and I

A Sort of Equilibrium

Revisiting the debates of old

The Four Pallbearers

On some not so fine print

For the Time Is at Hand

Three takes on the end of the world

A Dual Perspective

Scenes of a Congolese world

Body Language

This novel of a type

Unusual Suspect

With vague ideas of armed struggle

The Long Grind

As the novelty wears off

Into the Woods

Landscapes of a Greenland past

Sticky Fingers

Arboreal escapades

Knock on Wood

Solutions don’t always grow in trees

Pursuit and Policy

Diplomatically speaking

The War That Came Before

With rifles, swords, and spades

Paper Trail

A son’s journey to Vietnam

Patina

With characters of brass

Stock Exchange

Trying to get our hands around it

Plain Injustice

The murder of Louie Sam

For Whoever You Are

Martha Wainwright on the record

The Dandurands

An Edwardian power couple

A Rare Bird

With binoculars at the ready

Bog Trotter

The wet centre is bottomless

Making a Scene

Experimental film is ready for its close-up

Mixed Grill

Served with a side of mourning

Ebb and Flow

Reflections on the life aquatic

This Old Thing?

The clothes that make the man

Talk Diversity to Me

On cynicism and sincerity

Burden of Plenty

On beating a retreat

An Ode to Family

Memories of a war-torn land

With Such Precautions

Trying to put it behind us

Toppling Statutes?

Thoughts on modern constitutions

The People’s Province

Saskatchewan knows what it wants

A Neglected Pledge

Moving beyond apologies

One Hundred Days

How to explain a genocide

False Positives

Riding the first wave in Quebec

Upstaged

Prop and circumstance

A Page from Her Book

Scenes from home and away

The Western Terminus

In that place called Vancouver

Curtain Call

Along our treasured canal

Unquestionable

Margaret Atwood’s on fire

Leaving Them

The hardest thing I’ve ever done

Project Management

Somewhere over the Mountain

The Well from Hell

It was a disaster

Finding Illich

David Cayley’s labour of love

In the Squalid Mile

The latest from Heather O’Neill

Thrill Seekers

Are you not entertained?

Tower Records

Shooting the prairie giants

Chancing to Rise

Our evolving relationship with China

Imaginary Futures

Nothing will be like before

Shut Your Eyes and See

A nation’s mythologies

Hollowed Halls

What ails the study of foreign policy?

With Letters of Commission

Reconsidering the state of the federation

The Fifth

From printer’s devil to prime minister

Notes to Self

The art of personal narration

First Lady

The incomparable Flora MacDonald

His Superlatives

Tomson Highway’s joy

The Longest Nights

When the temperatures dipped in Montreal

On the Silver Trail

A small town’s outsize influence

Tug of War

An army created out of nothing

Plane and Simple

A new pilot project

Death of an Author

The weirdest man I never met

Behind the Second Story

A sequel to a Canadian classic

Variations

Not so black and white

Editorial Restraints

On various conflicts of interest

Sense of an Ending

Whether that nation can long endure

In a Landlocked Region

The urgency of Xinjiang

Through Youthful Eyes

Eleven months in the Middle East

Talking Points

Dollars and sense

Out of Place and Time

It’s still too often about elsewhere

Want My Advice?

Jocelyn Coulon thinks we’ve lost our way

Dear Pierre

Two men of letters

The Correspondent

Unstoppable Hilary Brown

One Foot in Front of the Other

Round and round an endless track

Hare-Brained Ideas

And that left turn at Albuquerque

Voices from In-between

An intergenerational story

That World Elsewhere

In some ways, I’ve already been

She Liked Short Lines

The lyrical voices of Carol Shields

States of Being

The latest from Casey Plett

That the Poet Here Describes

When a response is demanded

Those Lessons Many

All that we pick up in person

Among the Thorns

What grows in the Sunshine Province

To Serve and Reflect

This matter really strikes much deeper

This Dear Green Place

Our latest last best hope

Pain and Strong Endeavours

Allies against the war on drugs

That Ever Governed Frenzy

Through the eyes of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Michael Wernick

Muslims and the Media

A uniquely shameful chapter

The Hallucinations Persist

On paradises lost

Building Worlds

With the Cundill Prize finalists

Acts of Union

Power to the teachers

And the Waters Increased

November in the Fraser Valley

So Here We Are

Saying goodbye to Morris

Variations on a Theme Park

Randy Boyagoda sends Prin packing

Here There Be Monsters

When falsehood can look so like the truth

In the Boreal Wilds

A translation of Audrée Wilhelmy

Exhibit B

Breaking down the building blocks

Metamessages

The reality of the situation

The Gloves Are Off

Where men enforced do speak

Rocket Men

It’s going to be a long, long time

The Infernals

If they want to have a war, let it begin here

Pathways

Policy in an age of displacement

The Poisoned Well

Oil and water don’t mix

City Limits

That shrinking feeling

The Barons of Barton Street

They built this city on iron and steel

Living a Fiction

Who was Frank Prewett?

The F Word

On different wavelengths

From Far Away

Coming to the journey’s end

And Change We Did

My experiment with life on the left

Adventures in Lexicography

Don’t panic

On the Wall

A new collection by Cora Siré

A Haiku

A poem

The Three Pamphleteers

Addressing the unconcerned and the unaware

Quandary Quebec

Divisive issues in La Belle Province

Mission Critical

No shelter to these outrages

Buzz Words

Leave us not honeyless

Carbon Copy

In equal balance justly weighed

Où ce-qu’il vient de?

The journey of a cosmopolitan Acadian

The Malaria Guru

From rags to research

Rock Star

As Smallwood took the stage

Something Beyond

Wounds, words, and wisdom

Small Wonders

I must have been changed several times since then

Devilish Charm

The public facades of private corporations

Waiting Game

When the chips are down

Loonie Tunes

A deep dive with an iconic bird

Overdue

On our faulty logic

Anchorman

This is Peter Mansbridge

Guardians of the Galleria

Where have all the heroes gone?

The Beauty of It

Never forget one little point

Oh, the Humanities!

A challenge to the hallowed halls

Horns of Our Dilemma

These are the ways the world ends

The Pied Pipers

When I gave up beer for wine

Below the Brine

Wave after wave thus leaps

The Quality of Her Passion

Kim Echlin’s stirring narratives

Something Wicked

The hysteria that gripped

Jagged Little Pills

Douglas Coupland is back

A Pearl Anniversary

Looking back on the first issue

Of an Age

Late thoughts and latter-day visions

Foot in the Bucket

It's time to call the play

Impact Statement

Whose social responsibility is it anyway?

Greater Storms and Tempests

On cleaning up our act

In Some Measure

Unequal stories of Canada

Question Time

A debate of national proportions

The Lessons of  ’21

Before we make election

The Understory

How forests are wired for the future

A Radical Journey

E. T. Kingsley’s activism

No Kidding

Jesters do oft prove prophets

On Gossamer Wings

We shall not be, tomorrow, what we were

Polyphonic Symphony

Hearing the voices of yesterday

Over Tokyo

Malcolm Gladwell’s point of view

A Fair Exchange?

Off to Frankfurt we go

Moore Content

Wrestling with change

Connect Four

Linden MacIntyre’s new novel

Lady M

The latest from Mona Awad

Paper Cuts

Making it pop

Down the Road

The challenge of changing gears

Second Opinion

Just what did the doctor order?

A More Civil Service

Fear not your government

Long Arms

Extending the executive’s reach

Think Big

Five changes that made us

Greener Grass

Can’t argue with chronic success

The Art of Losing

The archeology of two lives

No Thank You

Once upon a Canadian dream

In the Human Frame

Memories of the baffled king

The Director

How his tradition got started

Scrolling in the Deep

Under the influence of influencers

All the Feels

Keeping up with the emoji

In the Telling

The voices in our heads

In the Grey Light

Illustrating a modern classic

Poetry She Wrote

A new novel by Kathleen Winter

Little Woman

The latest from Miriam Toews

Minarets

A question of faith

Requiem for a European

Parting is such sweet sorrow

56-Inch Screen

A poem.

Nor Any Drop to Drink

An astronomical problem

This Is America

A promissory note not yet paid

Roger and Me

Looking back on China’s future

Over Time

Still at work on the sticky floor

Maple Branches

Who talks of my nation?

The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

It’s Complicated

Canada and the Vietnam War

He Spoke Volumes

Lorne Pierce verses the world

Aide-Mémoire

A revised history of Quebec

Mission Statement

A shelter from the storm

Thou Art Anxious

Decisions, decisions

Drawing Rooms

The Rock and the Big Land

Portrait of a Writer

David Macfarlane’s new memoir

We Might as Well Fly

A dark debut

Shadow Dance

Do I include too much?

Clippings

A little here and there

Toil and Trouble

What a way to make a living

Alive and Kicking

Le Chef continues to make an impression

The Breakdown

Tales of corrugated fibreboard

Copy Cats

A little from column A, a little from column B

You Talkin’ to Me?

Beneath the dome lights

Curious George

About the simple things

Writing into the Sunset

In the saddle with Canadian novelists

Family Pride

Profiles in gay life

Green Eggs and Glam

The case against one man's book

Queen of Queen’s

The woman behind the writers

Consider the Snark

Navigating the third wave without a map

Skeleton Key

A process extended in time

Lost and Fonds

Our national archives’ poor record

Period Piece

Forty-five years of change

Made of the Mist

Going behind the curtain

Riding the Waves

Where should women march next?

Localized Pain

Ghosts of a pandemic past

Lapsed Duty

A hist­ory of neglect

Teach It But How

Learning the hard way

Northern Memories

A story of forced relocation

The Bay Street Boys

Tales from the corner office

After Eden

Contemplating that final act

Homeward Bound

Live from the dog’s house

The Back of Beyond

Down a dirt road lives a bookshop

Over the Towers of Jerusalem

A complicated memoir

Beyond Words

Somewhere in the in-between

Where Magic Is Real

Stretches of the imagination

Pandemic Bookmarks

An evening with Saleema Nawaz

Touch of Madness

A new translation of a classic

Finders Keepers

Will Ferguson’s latest novel

A Shelter for Dreams

As we haunt our houses

Composite Sketches

Two tales of true crime

I Must Confess

Zsuzsi Gartner’s debut novel

The Roundup

On Canada's literary landscape

Not Safe for Work?

Huawei in the crosshairs

There Shall Be a Sitting

Canada’s forty-third vote

Historical Friction

On the teaching of yesteryear

Material Concern

In a world that’s all mixed up

Decidedly Disconnected

Three months in a monastery

Out of His Own Way

And the rest is drag

Agent Zero

Her tale of delusion

This Lenten Season

Where they were all alone

That Nightly Hoots and Wonders

Listening to the natural world

Somewhere above Bloor Street

What Noah and Rose built

Artist Statement for Found Sounds at the Lake 

A poem

A Pronounced Problem

Hearing the stories closer to home

Slouching toward Democracy

Where have all the wise men gone?

Share and Share Alike

How Ottawa slices the pie

Wild Rose Diplomacy

Negotiating Alberta’s uncertain future

The History Books

On the Cundill Prize short list

At Daggers Drawn

Margaret MacMillan soldiers on

The Diarist

Making tracks in a new land

Pack Together, Pack Apart

Down at the dog park

The Prophet

Atwood’s poetic voice

Home Sweet Unhomely

The latest from André Alexis

Trash Talk

A time to band together

Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me

The pros and cons of disclosure

Around the Bend

The many ways rivers run through it

Whatever the Cost May Be

Preparing for the fight of our life

Royal Descent

Rideau Hall is brought down to earth

Shot in the Arm

Living in a time of crises

A Maritime Murder

The final book by Silver Donald Cameron

Je me souviens de quoi?

A fresh take on the beautiful province

Paws for Thought

The costs of man's best friends

An Arctic Fable

Once upon the melting ice

Lives Less Ordinary

Peter Mansbridge's unsung heroes

Her Little Black Book

Barbara Amiel doesn't give a damn

The Colossus

Notes on our twelfth prime minister

Cobbled Together

Me and the shoemaker

Graphic Narrative

Drawn-out dramas of the North

In the Eye of the Historian

Three takes on Louis Riel

Comfort Foods

The tragic tale of a cookbook

The Magical History Tour

It was the summer of ’69

The Great Cover-Up

Our pandemic wasteland

Front-Line Worker

A family’s postwar trials

Stage Management

Fourteen fixes for a broken theatre

No Country for Young Women

The latest from Ava Homa

Metaphor Surrendered

The heart of the story

The Hole Truth

A metaphor for the year past

The Philanthropist’s Dilemma

Elsewhere they meet with charity

Bank Account

An institution’s history

This Is Not the End of the Story

The lasting promise of section 35

Title Role

A failure of imagination

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Mennonite Descent

A journey through the colonies

Tech Support

Who’s helping who?

Trailblazer

How one woman engineered change

Collected Thoughts

Self-portrait of a curator

Don’t Kid Yourself

A ruling on the rules

Lonely Hearts Club

Settling in with Helen Humphreys

Voices among Us

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s latest

A Mother, Wrapped in a Mystery

Transcribing the past

Socially Distant

Maybe the problem with Facebook is us

Power Down

Is this the twilight’s last gleaming?

Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

American Judge

The normal is gone

There May Yet Be Hope

Our future is not set in stone

In the Holy Land

A new perspective on an age-old conflict

A Wretched Motley Crew

The struggle that defined two nations

Service Records

The changing ways we remember

Wrap Party

Ode to a famous sandwich

Bathroom Reading

Too many still aren’t sitting comfortably

Sales Report

This unaffordable Vancouver

Poet for Our Times

Returning to the words of Dorothy Livesay

Portraits of Tragedy

A remarkable debut collection

Twitter Fingers

Vivek Shraya’s new novel

The Royal Treatment

The genesis of a debut

After Labour Day

A poem

Walcott

A poem

Bricks without Straw

Toward a sureness of hand

Lean and Slender Forms

A haunting debut

Kaleidoscope

Lisa Robertson’s first novel

Found in Translation

The gender politics of South Korea

The Quiet Canadian

Fictional encounters with Leonard Cohen

Personal Battlegrounds

The enigma of Timothy Findley

Death Becomes Us

On the universal experience

Farmyard Odyssey

A lofty subject

A Farewell to Arms

Where did all the junk go?

A Whole Different Animal

Transforming our food systems

Thank You, Next

The Conservatives’ commitment problem

Life of the Parties

A political history

A Noble Departure

The lost art of standing down

Shifting Gears

Toward a car-free future

Migrations

Meanwhile, down below

Lesson Plans

Adventures in rhyme with a boy of nine

At What Price?

The costs of an unfolding drama

The Prognosis

Looking the consequences in the eye

This Story Is Mine

Why I’m finally telling it

A Divided Nation

The growing gulf between Canada’s digital haves and have-nots

A Visit to Edgar Allan Poe’s Cottage in the Bronx

A poem.

Calling a Body a Body

A poem.

Plutonium Valley

A poem.

Deep Bleu

A poem

My Tour of Nowhere

I’ve still not seen my books in a bookstore

Crossed Histories

A collection from Kaie Kellough

Adventures of the Dynamite Kid

Tyler Enfield’s new novel

A Sultan’s Education

Babe Ruth before pinstripes

The Ashes

A season of loss

Big Questions

And Gideon said unto him

Ink Stained

Reflections on newsrooms past

Draw a Bath

The architecture of where we wash

Book Club

A lifetime of publishing in London

The Mess

Deconstructing the institutional food menu

Comeau Speaks

Insights from inside the FLQ

Language Barrier

The life of a conspiracy theory

All the Kremlin’s Men

On seventy-five years of Russian interference

Lend Me Your Ear

In defence of public libraries

The Western Front

Speaking unspoken truths

School Daze

A teenager’s view from lockdown

Virtual Realities

Putting technology to the test

Wanderings

Here is a coast and here is a harbour

What’s in a Name?

The divisiveness of public commemoration

The Passport

New-found meaning behind that slim and elegant booklet

Labyrinth

When a friend put a pen in my hand

An Urgent Realm

Mallory Tater’s dark debut

Trying Situations

A new collection from David Bergen

North and South

Cuba’s Orwellian mystery

Lawgivers of the Mind

The moral coding of artificial intelligence

Risky Business

The journeys of human curiosity

Neighbourhood Watch

Remembering a city of old

National Personality

The legacy of Marcel Cadieux

Heart and Solo

Beyond the Silicon Valley fallacy

Uncorked

Keeping spirits up in isolation

Waiting on Tables

When no one’s being served

Under the Guise of Research

Science and subjugation

Summer School

Acknowledging and talking about uncomfortable truths

China’s Moment

Reckoning with an empire state of mind

An Act of Protest

Desmond Cole says his piece

False Notions

Yes, certain conditions continue to exist

From “the unity of worlds”

A poem

One for the Books

Publishing in a pandemic

In the Margins

Life with Ulysses

The Rule of Jane

A writer’s lessons for today

What They Think You Are

Behind Warhol’s blond ambition

Complicated Ties

Jean Vanier and the United Church

Ye of Little Faith

The nation’s unbelievers

Northern Sights

Escapism versus reality

Name Drop

Whose nomenclature is it anyway?

Is This Thing On?

The sorry state of our national broadcaster

Leanings

Skewed views of work

Complex Case

Examining Canada’s health care history

The Exponent

On the many costs of more

A Novel Situation

Literary creatures in this time of crisis

Don’t Stop the Presses

Finding a newspaper model that works

When Suppertime Came

We still don’t know why the Fitzgerald went down

Storeys of Stories

Finding the sublime in the ridiculous

Low Vacancy

A poem

A Cup of Hot Brimming I Pick Up, Start Walking

A poem

Various Compulsions

A poem

Of Course You Do Find Spicy Bits

A poem

Andrà Tutto Bene

When Italy went quiet

Visions of a Crisis

Difficult days in Ecuador

Through the Fog

Turning to Rebecca Solnit in times of trouble

Until We Meet Again

A journey there and back

Alone Time

A nation in isolation

Food for Thought

Eight billion mouths and counting

Balance the Books

The case for Canadian publishing

Zoom with a View

The inner lives of co-workers

The Long Change

Hockey’s unassuming hero

Man of the Miramichi

A new collection by David Adams Richards

Faithful Translation?

Cohen takes on Lorca

Portrait of a Glass Artist

Piecing together a history

Coming Home to Roost

The cracks in everyday lives

The Ancient Port

And there was a mighty tempest

Quarantine Diaries

One day more, then another

Mapping What Ails Us

Intimidation and lies just spread

His Duty

One man’s fight against militarism

Reggae Frame of Mind

A genre’s racially charged history

Is This Seat Taken?

Canada’s bid for the Security Council

Take Note

Putting pen to pixel

The Human Factor

At the beginning of Canada’s oldest company

Collision Course

Reckoning with an existential threat

Within These Walls

Hidden stories from the prairies

Family Secrets

Anita Kushwaha’s new novel

A Different Rhythm

Editing against the clock

Taking Stock

What if the cod never returns?

Grand Scheme

When a dream is too good to be true

Everybody’s Face but Their Own

Satire in an age of surrender

Your Inner Number Cruncher

Recalculating math education

Outraged by Outrage

Gen X confronts the culture wars

Forebodings

Notes on climate catastrophe

Coming to the Table

When patience matters

Pandemic

Old stories of a new virus

Tales to Be Retold

Stories of Newfoundland

The Floodgates

A Cree poet journeys home

Me, Myself, and India

The debut collection from Anosh Irani

The Path of Poetic Resistance

To disarm Canada and its canon

The Scribblers

Reading between the lines

You’re Joking

True lies in Canadian art

Brain Drain

The lost influence of intellectuals

The Acadian

Michel Bastarache speaks

The Logic of Empire

Writing our histories differently

Bards and Bytes

A future with silicon collaborators

Education, Inc.

When companies control the chalkboards

The Arts of the Deal

International trade and the survival of Canadian culture

For the Record

Running commentary

Character Study

Encounters with my father in the works of Mordecai Richler

Cut It Out

Our fear of offending has gone too far

Poverty Matters

Working toward a basic income

Whoville?

Make-believe residents of a displaced community

Dilemma Capitalism

The system cannot change itself

Dear Mr. Prime Minister

When McLuhan wrote Trudeau

Mercury Rising

When it comes to climate change, Canada’s all talk

A Question of Our Time

Racism goes beyond blackface

Nerve Endings

An unsettling presence in Lynn Coady’s latest

Between the Cushions

Finding something new in a well-trod genre

Artistic Marriage Licence

Portrait of an iconic couple

Check Out Libby

The workings of a virtual library

Fake and Forgotten Foods

Satiating our ceaseless hunger for authenticity

Creature Feature

Bigfoot doesn’t always leave tracks

Our Forgotten War

Have we already lost sight of Afghanistan?

Peace Out

Our diminished role in keeping the world safe

Car Talk

The blindness of the Big Three

Stranger Things

Expecting the unexpected from Malcolm Gladwell

Broken Spines and Other Sins

Our complicated relationship with books

Sticky Situationists

On the origins of the modern spectacle

Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

Fake Views

The splinternet of modern cartography

Prize Fighters

My Writing Desk

I inherited more than a piece of furniture

Fresh Prince

Steven Price’s novel take on a classic

Pilgrims’ Progress?

Patrick Warner heads to Spain

Some New Material

Sean Michaels bets on comedy

Curtain Call

Images that have shaped the Canadian stage

Flight Club

The pioneering pilot who flew under the radar

A Gutsy Gambit

Millennials and their checkered reality

Dropping the Puck

Can hockey mount a comeback?

Governing a Homeland

The politics of the Métis Nation

A Fair Hearing

Lessons from Robyn Doolittle’s new book

Pushing Boundaries

The past and present of abortion travel

True Brew

Cracking open a refreshing history of Labatt’s

Somewhere over Rome

Confronting Fascism then and now

Oil and Holy Water

Bearing the cross of a natural resource

Booked

Interviewing kids behind bars

Boy, Oh Boy

Pauline Holdstock’s child wonder

Golf Clap

Teeing up a new novel

Island Times

Life in the Pacific Northwest

Word Break

Canada needs an updated dictionary

A Chance Encounter

The fiction of Helen Weinzweig

White Water

When the canoe went mainstream

The Great Escape

Can we break out of our social media addiction?

All That Glitters

What corporate social responsibility is not

Intelligence Test

Anticipating an artificial world

Double Exposure

Neighbours with differences

Soap Opera

Scouring a soiled past

Housing Rights

Ottawa takes a historic step forward

The Blues

Two books on protecting water

Our Modern Albatross

How plastic plagues us

In the Margins

A poetic journey through cancer

That Most Lonely Place

A dark and daring translation

Left Behind

A novel look at an evangelical mission

Still Missing

The whereabouts of Ambrose Small

Golden Boy

Reclaiming a sports hero

Deal or No Deal?

Naomi Klein makes her case

Here, No Evil

Are there bad people or just bad deeds?

The Treaties

Ottawa negotiated in bad faith

Yes, Genocide

Overruling tepid language

No Genocide

It’s not the right word for the history books

Don’t Forget

What we still get wrong about Quebec

Comedy of Errors

We deserve better political memoirs

Lessons Learned

When the NDP grew up

Liberalism 101

Notes for a skeptical generation

Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Clickbait and Switch

Startling trends for democracy

Citizenship Test

Murder, She Writes

Why I returned to true crime

Mark My Words

A new collection by Elise Levine

Double or Nothing

Two novels go all in on gambling

Graphic Loss

Seth contemplates a bygone era

How We Got Here

A bifurcated history from Aleksandar Hemon

Influence U

Going beyond the op-ed

Not-So-Modest Proposals

Prescriptions for an ailing democracy

Source Code

The men and women who have changed our world

The Moral Quandary of Commas

Wringing our hands over matters of style

A Moving History

Attempts to reshape a nation

An Unquestioned Truth

Capitalism is not the only answer

Common Elements

The coercive world of condo governance

The Maestros

Directing the many moving parts of a great city

Meritocracy and Its Discontents

The lessons of an unequal opportunity system

High Steaks

The Winter Queen

Reimagining a dramatic reign

An Edited Life

A new novel by Alix Ohlin

Distorted Views

Essays on obsession and hypocrisy

Man of Letters

The prolific George Bowering

For the Record

Preserving today for tomorrow

Bilingualism at Fifty

The challenge of translating policy into action

Justice League

Defining a new international crime

See the North

The persistent allure of a mysterious region

The Art of Vigilance

Because a culture of protest matters

Nosey Foe

Our pint-sized predators

Moai in a Bottle

A fantastic voyage revisited

The King’s Ear

On the influence of dictators

White Noise

Much ado about diversity

God of Poetry

Apollo was about more than going to the moon

The Public’s Library

On shelf preservation

A Not-So-Simple Love Story

Even in the photos, it’s rarely black and white

Family Ties

Was this my mother’s world?

Journeymen

Travels with an order of Timbits

A Fatherly Course

Piecing together a family history at sea

Inside the Box

An investigative journalist goes undercover at Walmart

Muslim Pride

A timely LGBTQ memoir