Readings

What can you learn from the bucket list you kept as an 11-year-old?

The author of Between Gods on uncovering family secrets, converting, and the vulnerability of self-discovery.

The story of 11-year-old Sally Horner's abduction changed the course of 20th-century literature. She just never got to tell it herself.

T magazine "condensed and edited" its interview earlier this week with Willow and Jaden Smith. Here, exclusively, is what didn't make the cut.

Serial has 1.26 million listeners hungry for clues that might only add up to chaos: like W.G. Sebald or Toronto writer Martha Baillie, it plays on our impulse to make sense of it all.

"We are a very good A-minus city," David Mirvish, whose proposed Frank Gehry condo complex will be glitzier than any so far, told Toronto Life. But what good can starchitecture do for a city?

Given the environmental compromises required for Canada's evolution into an energy giant, it's no great surprise that the government may want to downplay our bucolic past on our legal tender.

In response to Time magazine's poll, "Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015" (which suggests we ban "feminist"), a list of the opposite.

Banks' long-delayed debut album arrived with a shrug, but this is less evidence of an artist failing to live up to her potential than of the still-crushing vagaries of the record industry.