Essay

At the age of fifteen, knowing hardly a word of English, she comes to Canada from Poland. This is how it was: two different languages, two different lives.

Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth takes the spy novel to metafictional new heights. But the history behind it is as gripping as any thriller.

An American on the trials of becoming Canadian.

Political parties and social movements rarely make good bedfellows, the former more likely to co-opt than cooperate with the latter. From the Arab Spring to the Quebec student strikes, and the Occupy movement's fraught relationship with the Democratic Party, it's time to start asking whether the competing motives of parties and movements can ever be reconciled.

A victim of tradition; a secret genius.

Online, door-to-door: a hustle's a hustle, says a woman who knows.

Living legends—even those as distinguished as music producer Joe Boyd—are less cool than ghosts.

Answer: Hope for an inheritance.