Society

Fragments on Quebec’s Charter of Values

There’s no doubt that Quebec’s proposed Charter of Values is racist. What’s interesting about it, however, is how neatly it has summed up the fears, anxieties, and prejudices of a time and place.

The Internet as Cabinet of Wonders: In Conversation With Clive Thompson

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.

A Murder on Yonge Street: The Death of Emanuel Jaques

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.

All the Literary Tough Guys Are Wimps

To read his latest novel, Cataract City, you’d think that Craig Davidson was a man’s man. He’s not, but like all guys—even the meek and intellectual—he’s fascinated by them, and maybe (like this writer) a little jealous.