Readings

With The Knowledge, Lewis Dartnell has written a guidebook for rebuilding human society after the apocalypse. But how can we know what we’ll know after the end?

Farley Mowat’s books represented the Canada that actually was: utterly unique in its crimes and triumphs alike, wilder than its modern reputation allows—a country we’ve turned away from, in literature and otherwise.

How did the restaurant kitchen become the frantic, sweltering, tyrannical hellhole it is today? A history of the back-of-the-house and its rigorous hierarchies.