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Alex Bellos, author of The Grapes of Math, was surprised at the detail with which people personify their favourite numbers. Obviously, four is the best.
It begins with an apology to Alice Munro and a blessing from the author in whose name he spoke last night. In the 2014 Margaret Laurence Lecture, Guy Vanderhaeghe describes the unlikely journey he took to become a writer.
On how food trends reflect the world we live in, by the author of The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up With Fondue. Case study: a man comes of age between two very different eras of “big yogurt.”
This spring, three blue whale carcasses washed up on the Newfoundland shore, spurring a panic about whale explosions. These fears, while unfounded, were indicative of something much worse—and marked a new, ominous chapter in the whale’s evolving symbolic import.
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