Society

Quebec Is Not So Secular

Parti Québécois’s Charter of Values is being sold as a score for secularism. A recent study, however, shows that Quebec is far more religious than widely assumed—and that the charter’s values might be at odds with those of the province.

A Sidewalk Grows in Hamilton

Frustrated over the stonewalled bureaucracy of city planning, concerned citizens have started taking bylaws into their own hands, a movement they’re calling tactical urbanism.

||Terence Stamp in Pasolini's Teorema
Cruising Montreal and the Meaning of Life

Adam Gollner's The Book of Immortality explores the possibility of life after death, as well as the power of faith. Here, the author tours the sites that inspired the book, finding nothing and everything.

||Naoki Higashida. Image on homepage by Kai and Sunny, from their series Caught By the Nest
Like Travellers from a Distant Past: Writing About Autism

The Reason I Jump, by autistic Japanese teen Naoki Higashida, joins a recent spate of books featuring autistic characters. We talk with novelist David Mitchell about how translating Higashida's book into English transformed his understanding of his own son's autism.