Yes, It’s Okay to Throw Away a Book
We love acquiring, hoarding, and displaying books even more than we love reading them
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Parental Leave Is Broken
It’s a privilege to take paid time when your baby is born. But the system is far from equal
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Skiing Is Becoming an Endangered Pastime
Across Canada, snow cover has been declining. Will winter, and winter sports, soon be extinct?
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How Connie Walker Got Us Listening
The Pulitzer Prize–winning podcaster is changing journalism as we know it
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Around the World in Eighty Lies
How a writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura
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Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They’re Rich
Owners of multi-million-dollar properties still see themselves as middle class, a warped self-image that has a big impact on renters
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What’s the Point of “Pretendian” Investigations?
The latest revelation, about Buffy Sainte-Marie, is convincing, damning, and strikingly incomplete
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“Parents’ Rights” Rhetoric Is Rooted in Radical Conspiracy Theories
Why are federal and provincial conservative leaders echoing the talking points of QAnon?
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Big Babies: When It Comes to Kids, Many Adults Need to Grow Up
Fully grown human beings are having tantrums over infants and toddlers who dare to exist and make noise
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In Daughter, Claudia Dey Explores the Ugly Side of the Great Literary Male
The wry, furious novel gives the overlooked daughter of an egotistical writer a voice
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