Reading is a subversive activity and does not believe in the convention of borders.

Notes from the Governor General’s Literary Awards.

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Jill Mandrake on the surprising effect of peanut brittle.

Ola Szczecinska returns to Warsaw to visit her grandmother, and to keep from losing her memories.

Michael Hayward on a collection of conversations with Brion Gysin—writer and counterculture legend.

In Peterborough, Pastor Billy cures arthritis, back pain, bone spurs, lymphoma, stage four liver cancer, sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation

The final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle allows us to compare Karl Ove’s literary edifice with others of similar ilk—and bulk.

Michael Hayward on a selection of work from the writing collective known as "the Beats"

Kris Rothstein on the current state of employment in Bullshit Jobs and Temp.

Patty Osborne on the mixed review of Crazy Rich Asians.

Han Fusen navigates multiculturalism and kookoo sabzi from inside a Persian grocery store.

Mary Schendlinger on Natalia Ginzburg's narrative of her family during the rise of Hitler and Mussolini.