Avert Your Eyes
Life has never been safer—no matter what your smartphone tells you
Read MoreOctober 2016
Mary Rogan asks when do children know their true gender; Tom Jokinen discovers the world just can’t get enough of Canada’s bovine sperm; Harley Rustad reports on how a single tree, and the logger who saved it, have changed the way we see BC’s old-growth forests; Nicholas Hune-Brown examines if Kim’s Convenience can help fix TV’s diversity problem; Michael Kingston uncovers Roald Dahl’s secret history as a spy…
Is Anne Carson the First Poet with More Fans than Readers?
Her abstruse, down-tuned music is the soundtrack to poetry’s institutionalized life in the twenty-first century
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Canada’s Bull Semen Boom
We export more than $100 million worth of “white gold” per year—much of it from a handful of designer superstuds
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Once We Were Builders
A bridge in limbo symbolizes our modern aversion to ambitious engineering projects
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Big Lonely Doug
How a single tree, and the logger who saved it, have changed the way we see British Columbia’s old-growth forests
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Glinda the Good Is Gone
A crosswind, the Norway’s leaves flash like sunfish in a man-made pond. Still waiting for someone to ask whether I believe in God. Maple keys footnote the ground. As a …
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Small-Town Smackdown
Why professional wrestling still has a chokehold on the East Coast
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Magic Mushrooms
Battling depression with hallucinogenic fungi
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Private Tour
In Milan, museum director James Bradburne wants to reinvent the way we consume art
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