What did the German, Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman thrones have in common by 1919? None of them existed functionally anymore.
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Does art have to be relatable—does it have to mean anything—to be any good? Maybe not at all, as Ira Glass’s rash tweet—and a short novel by Penelope Fitzgerald—reminds us.
The yellow-suited detective once starred in America’s favourite comic strip. He’s still alive—but is he vital? How a U.S. Establishment icon became a kitsch artifact.
Like Wipeout, minus the schadenfreude and with a solemn appreciation of people with freakish upper-body strength.
There’s nothing quite like criticism from outsiders to spur irrational defenses of our own narrow status quo.
If you don't see the social justice being served by connecting the working class more quickly and easily with their jobs, you're not looking hard enough.
The luxury cruise is, often, a vacation to be endured: the rigid structure, embarrassing pampering, forced interaction, the terrible predictability of it all. What could compel a person to keep shipping out, year after year?
When bored, our brains react in different ways—but when engaged, they march in mental lockstep.
Marian Engel's Governor General’s award-winning Bear is, in many ways, about a woman who has sex with a bear. But it's also a book about unrequited love, sexual empowerment, and being one with nature.
Marian Engel’s Bear was an award-winning Canadian novel relegated to the darkest recesses of literary history. But the Internet never forgets, and so to celebrate its return, we asked five illustrators to re-imagine the novel’s startling cover.
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