Canada’s Conservative government is trying to rewrite the country’s history books, ostensibly in an attempt to elevate the militaristic, and likely at the expense of its lesser-known iconoclasts. When will essential figures such as B.C.’s Amor De Cosmos get their due?

The National have gone from artists’ artists to stadium headliners, just as their borough has gone from artists’ enclave to centre of the creative universe. Both have come to represent a certain kind of ambition. Where does it end?

On NYRB’s new Jean-Paul Sartre collection, and those who act as if they always have something else to teach us.