Readings

Our fourth and final in a series of chats with Calvin Trillin, the man who—among many other things—casts the U.S. presidential campaign in iambic pentameter. This time around Trillin gives his election post-mortem, discussing Nate Silver, Karl Rovian meltdowns, rhyming "Rodham" with "Sodom," and the Republicans' disengagement with reality. And just how easy it is to be considered an expert in America.

Science, psychology, and art all suggest that our faces are windows to our inner lives. But sometimes it can be pretty hard to see through those windows.

In Toronto for Holocaust Education Week, the author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank speaks about Nora Ephron, global fiction, hoodlums, and how the past is always present.

The editor of a new book that collects a century of images documenting Canada from the New York Times' archives reflects on how the photographs changed his conception of Canada.

In October of 1984, a small commuter plane carrying the author's father and nine others crashed in remote northern Alberta. There were four survivors: politician Larry Shaben, rookie pilot Erik Vogel, police officer Scott Deschamps, and Paul Archambault, the small-time criminal Deschamps was escorting. Into the Abyss explores their attempts to survive immediately following the crash and the lasting bond that formed between them. This is an excerpt from the chapter “Confessions”.