Clive Thompson’s Smarter Than You Think is something long overdue: a book that gets excited about the internet’s possibilities—for social life, for creativity, for thought—and how we’re already working them into our daily lives.

Christie Blatchford and Anthony de Sa on the 1977 Toronto murder of 12-year-old Emanuel Jaques, the subject of de Sa's new novel, Kicking the Sky, and the first trial ever covered by the award-winning crime reporter.

Ron Mann’s documentary was dismissed by some as decidedly amateurish upon its release. Now, 25 years later, even its kitschiest elements don’t distract from its status as a document of what may be comics’ most critical moment of maturation.