Readings

Buying a Better World

Can charity make the world we want? If so, to whom should we sign the cheque?

Memorable For the Wrong Reasons: Tom Ewing on Charity Singles

In e-mail conversation with the UK music critic about "We Are the World," "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and other "classics" of the genre.

The Secret Art of Talking to Other Humans

Whether at a friend's birthday party or stark naked in the Nicaraguan jungle, our first conversations with strangers require a complex dance of tentative reveals and elisions.

Changing Minds: Nick Jonas, One Direction, and the Rare Act of Pop Transference

There's no sure escape from the compressed life of a boy band.

Goals I've Set, and Other Mistakes

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

The Times You Go Into the Darkness: An Interview with Alison Pick

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

The Real Lolita

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.

Willow and Jaden Smith: The Outtakes

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

Who Wears a Belt Buckle? And Other Irresistible Mysteries

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.

What Good Can a Gehry Do?

"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?