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

The genius of a young pianist

Geist author Claudia Cornwall and Geist editors John Mikhail Asfour and Elee Kraljii Gardiner have been short listed for the 2012 Vancouver Book Award.

Geist contributor Annabel Lyon has been selected for the 2012 Giller Prize longlist for her novel The Sweet Girl.

A found scrapbook triggers a roadtrip across the northwest

Revolution in 1970s France

Border landscapes - fraught but beautiful

Abu and Aisumma prepare to make their pilgrimage to Mecca.

An ocean floor sculpture in the Sea of Cortez

The Buena Vista Social Club of the Casbah

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

A bohemian idyll

Skateboarding and rebellion in East Berlin

A life lived passionately, if not always wisely.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A cranky reader on Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

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

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.

Rollicking Scottish play about folk ballads

Geist contributors Catherine Mavrikakis, Suzette Mayr and Patrick Friesen have each received a nomination for the 2012 ReLit Awards.