"Authenticity is the essential quality of all travel literature, imaginary or real."

D.M. Fraser on the myth of cultural identity.

Eve Corbel reviews two short biographic documentaries: Seth's Dominion and I Thought I Told You to Shut Up.

Stephen Osborne discusses the happiness level of Vancouver, the best place on earth.

Somewhere in the sweat and ache and muscle I carved a new shape for myself that made more sense.

AnnMarie MacKinnon reviews Death and the Penguin, a novel that follows the life of a young Ukrainian writer and his penguin.

Patty Osborne reviews Do You Think This Is Strange? by Aaron Cully Drake, a look into the mind of an autistic teenage boy.

Possum-style or straight up dirty.

During World War II my grandmother ran contraband, hunted pigeons.

The idea of Europe is incarnated nowhere as much as in St. Petersburg—Stephen Henighan on Europe's greatest city.

"If cities can be said to be alive, how many of them dream of growing up to become Paris?" Michael Hayward reviews How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean.

"Today your dog will decide to end things. Your dog, who is wearing a red vinyl jacket and is tied to the tree on the boulevard outside the thrift store."

An exploration of art and pop culture by Anna Banana.

Stephen Osborne talks about Bearded Ladies, a documentary about the works of renowned photographer Rosamond Norbury.

A series of of speed paintings by Levine Flexhaug.

Kris Rothstein recounts her experience at the Pickathon, a music festival in Portland, Oregon.

Lacking in drama and embarrassingly undemocratic, Canada’s origins owe a lot to old-fashioned politics and not much to European battles or transcontinental railways.