“I Needed to Be Doing This”: When Writers Uncover Family History
Tanya Talaga and Sadiya Ansari discuss ancestors, the colonial project, and intuitive pings
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How the 1980s Engineered the Collapse of the Working Class
Forty years later, policies to prop up the super rich are still going strong
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Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
“Do you know there’s a section of our customer base that buys a fresh Moleskine every time they come into a store? We have no idea what they do with them”
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A Scientist’s Quest to Decode Vermeer’s True Colours
New techniques reveal hidden details in the Dutch master’s paintings
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How Three Big Conspiracy Theories Took Root in Canada
Fringe beliefs are fringe until they’re not. Their mainstreaming has historically been aided by prominent thinkers
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The Shunned Literary Genius of Samuel Selvon
When a giant of Caribbean literature moved to Calgary, Canadian critics ignored him. He probably didn’t care
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Social Media Is Warping History
#History is huge on TikTok, where counterintuitive takes flatter users into thinking they know the “real” story
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Why So Many Authors Are Writing Multigenerational Stories
Several new books grapple with displacement and diasporic living in ways that feel particularly resonant in this moment
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What Should Canadian Museums Do about Their Stolen African Art?
Repatriation efforts were stymied for decades. But the problem can no longer be stalled
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