Sanitizing atrocity: In a new book, historian Assal Rad examines the Western media’s manipulation of language in Gaza coverage
Rad focuses on headlines because she notes that this is often all a person will read.
Locks and tresses: Judy Wearing’s engaging new book examines the biological quality that makes us quintessentially mammalian
Wearing's chapter on pubic hair is among the most intriguing.
The ghost haunting America: In his new book, Pulitzer Prize winner Kai Bird turns his attention to Roy Cohn, the architect of Donald Trump
What Bird demonstrates in his chilling and eminently readable book is the extent to which Cohn's malign influence affected the trajectory of America.
Sleepwalking toward tech apocalypse: Investigative reporter Gil Durán exposes Silicon Valley’s far right plans for dismantling democracy
Durán insists that the tech industry's rightward swing is not something that happened recently or organically; its progenitors and adherents have been working toward this moment for decades.
“Le Samouraï, c’est moi”: Edward Chisholm uncovers the details behind an unsolved murder that swept up one of the century’s most enigmatic actors
Delon was, finally, the auteur of his own life.
An offer you can’t refuse: One of America’s leading film critics re-evaluates his beloved medium
It's not violence or morbid subject matter per se that bothers Thomson, but our collective response to this material.
L’etat, c’est lui: NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan take stock of the first year in Trump’s second presidency
Whether the volume will remain relevant once this hideous presidency finally comes to a close is anybody's guess.
Historian Christopher Clark resurfaces a little-known clerical sex scandal that has resonance for today’s culture
Clark stumbled across the documents relating to the scandal some three decades ago.
In his new long essay, Globe and Mail reporter Tyler Dawson examines the possibility and perils of Alberta separation
Dawson seems fairly sanguine about the slim chances Alberta secession has.
“Egotistical adults with no boundaries”: Rick Westhead investigates the corrosion affecting junior hockey in Canada
Westhead has done an invaluable service by shedding light on the ugly underbelly of a system that starts scooping up boys as young as five or six.