Essay

The rides of your life.

Tupac Shakur’s work is as resonant today—days after a police officer shot Michael Brown and left his body in the street—as it was then: an indicator of still-grim realities.

In the aftermath of rape, and throughout the two-year-long rape trial, I was obsessed with dangerous animals. This is how I went from prey to predator.

To those deemed worthy, six weeks at the MacDowell Colony bring new work, friendships, and great meals. Compare this to the Canadian model, in which artists (even emerging ones) receive just enough to live on from governments. Which way works best?

Raising a mixed-race son in the Canadian city with the most mix-race couples is a dream borne of the Trudeau era. But Vancouver is a city of appearances, and diversity is much more complicated than it seems.

Author Linwood Barclay on the late Elmore Leonard, his famous rules for writing, and how his novels kept him alert while working the graveyard shift.

Linda Lovelace, played by Amanda Seyfried in the most recent biopic, was both porno goddess and anti-porn crusader. No one is sure who the real Lovelace was, but her memoirs—there were four—shed light on what she was up against.

On learning to love the abominable mix of Soviet brutalism and unrelenting American capitalism around which Edmonton revolves.

Windsor and Detroit are more than just neighbours: Their commerce, their culture, and especially their citizens, are inextricably linked. When Detroit declared bankruptcy last week, few felt it like those across the river.