Geist contributors Marcello Di Cintio and George Bowering have made the Globe's top 43 non-fiction books of the year.

Geist contributors Suzette Mayr and Patrick Friesen have each won a 2012 ReLit Award.

Announcing the winners of the 2012 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest

Rollicking Scottish play about folk ballads

Daniel Barrow's film of clips from Winnipeg public access TV programs of the 1980s and '90s is sublime.

Negotiation of father/daughter relationships with reference to King Lear in this innovative theatre piece

Heartfelt wacky musical about small-town choir killed in rollercoaster accident.

The festival starts now!

Laurie Lewis has written a smart, concise and humourous memoir about being a "little comrade" in Canada during the McCarthy era.

A delicious recipe from the Geist kitchen—just in time for the holidays.

A cranky reader on Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

In the 1800s, many young women came to Canada from Ireland but not many of them fell in love with black men who had fled north via the underground railway.

This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a whimper.

How to go from bluegrass roots to a "concertgrass" string quintet in easy stages.

If you've been looking for "eye-level sloshing fish viscera", this is your film.

Revolution in 1970s France

Abu and Aisumma prepare to make their pilgrimage to Mecca.

An ocean floor sculpture in the Sea of Cortez

French politicians gliding through the corridors of the Élysée Palace like sharks.

Border landscapes - fraught but beautiful

A life lived passionately, if not always wisely.

The Buena Vista Social Club of the Casbah

Skateboarding and rebellion in East Berlin

A found scrapbook triggers a roadtrip across the northwest

A bohemian idyll

A look behind the picture-postcard setting of present day Kashmir.

The genius of a young pianist