"The first disappointments had passed: no ghostly centipedes, no strange-eared octopi, no clever adaptations to the lightlessness and the cold - just barren death."
- Stephen Marche, in "Tom Cruise at Lake Vostok"
Does radio frequency radiation pose a cancer risk? Researchers in the largest study to date won’t say…[more]
Images of Hasankeyf, Turkey.. » View Photo Gallery «
On foreign doctors, prime ministerial biographers, militant cyclists, and the fascinating Doukhobors…[more]
The complexities of queer parenthood. » View Photo Gallery «
Doctors are paid for through our taxes. Why not lawyers? Alex Hutchinson examines a case for universal legal care…[more]
When losing is still winning. Sort of.. » View Photo Gallery «
Q&A; with ex-CIA agent Robert Baer on terror, the Iran crisis, and Hezbollah blasts …[more]
A virtual fantasia of China…[more]
The romantic side of Anglesey, and other things not featured in this novel…[more]
America’s genocidal history, as discussed in Ronald Wright’s new book…[more]
Have Canadians ever been this passionate?. » View Photo Gallery «
Can Turkey fulfill its promise as a bridge between East and West when its own peoples stand divided?…[more]
Some small talk at a Dubai Starbucks and then, unexpectedly, Ihab gets serious…[more]
Thomas Frank’s follow-up to What’s the Matter with Kansas…[more]
Pierre Lafontaine’s bid to revive Swimming Canada…[more]
Our books blogger interviews Canadian writer Pasha Malla…[more]
The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace was released this month in paperback. Here, David Gilmour recalls his lifelong obsession with the novel...