The Next Ten Years

December 23, 2013July 4, 2016 - by Barry Blitt

October 2013 / Poetry

Waves

December 18, 2013December 18, 2013 - by Richard Greene

“Everybody selling, nobody buying,” I am told, as a man carries shoes tied by their laces to a string around his neck. Women tend flames, sell griyo and discs of …

October 2013 / Photography

Water

December 18, 2013July 31, 2015 - by Edward Burtynsky

Our unquenchable thirst for the earth’s defining resource

October 2013 / Technology

The iPhone

November 25, 2013July 7, 2016 - by Clive Thompson

The iPhone almost turned out to be a dreadful flop. Why? Because of the wheel. When Apple was secretly planning the device in the mid-2000s, the designers based it on …

Health / October 2013

Hand Sanitizer

November 15, 2013July 4, 2016 - by Alex Hutchinson

I don’t know how you celebrated this year’s national hand hygiene day, but the festivities were a bit muted at my place. I gave up on the themed crossword after …

Feature / October 2013

Hot Wired

October 28, 2013September 8, 2017 - by Michael Harris

Gay men are on the vanguard of the digital sexual revolution, and the rest of us are not far behind. Are we satisfied yet?

Photograph by Michael Graydon and Nikole Herriott

Feature / October 2013

The Walking Cure

October 26, 2013August 5, 2016 - by Dan Rubinstein

On the trail in northern Quebec—finding salvation, one step at a time

First Person / October 2013

The Residential School Apology

October 21, 2013October 23, 2019 - by Wab Kinew

Last December, I witnessed a small miracle. Cancer had relegated my father to a bed in a darkened room where only his closest friends and family came to visit. On …