Libraries are not only essential in educating the soul, but in forming the identity of a society.

Anson Ching on the opening and closing of catastrophes.

Patty Osborne on licking fish, erotic hallucinations and the mystery of the missing anthropologist.

Enjoy the fresh kebab while your freshly dented fender gets fixed.

Roni Simunovic on the joker playing card through the ages.

Jill Mandrake on living life on the edge—from Etobicoke to Iqaluit.

Jonathan Heggen on staying on the periphery until the proverbial dust settles.

Michael Hayward on an armchair travelogue of the troubled borders in the eastern Balkans.

Michael Hayward on plastic art and slow sonnets.

Shyla Seller on Marion Stokes and her collection of 71,716 videotapes.