Readings

Switzerland has been known as a haven for foreign money for centuries. Now the U.S. is cracking down on banks it suspects of holding untaxed assets, with major implications for financial institutions around the world—Canada’s included.

He played a critical role in exploding the taboos of postwar American culture while influencing generations of artists. But the centenary of his birth—coming days after the overdose of Philip Seymour Hoffman—demands a fuller consideration of the Burroughs myth.

Considering Putin's Russia—a “terrifying fairytale,” says Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova—you might get wistful, as Francis Spufford does in Red Plenty, for a time when communism seemed every bit the fantasy Khrushchev made it out to be.