Don Gillmor revisits the early days of the oil patch; Wanda Schmöckel investigates fish fraud at the grocery store; Richard Kelly Kemick lords over his Christmas village; Peter Kavanagh says enough with Scandinavia chic; poetry by Joanna Lilley, Souvankham Thammavongsa, and George Elliott Clarke . . .

Cover photograph by A.Y. Owen/Getty/Life