Nicholas Köhler

Nicholas Köhler is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Maclean's, the South China Morning Post and The Christian Science Monitor, among other places. He has reported from around the world, including New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, northeast Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and more recently from Myanmar as it lurched toward democracy. You can reach him at [email protected].

Society

A.S.A. Harrison

She was an avant-garde artist who once practised striptease for a book, but she longed to write a novel for a bigger audience

Culture

One diamond’s dark and mysterious past

From 2013: Meet the Maltese Falcon-like gemstone that sparked a five-year storm of desire, political intrigue and crime

World

Witch hunters of the Himalayas

Gender violence hits lower-caste women of Nepal accused of being witches

Society

William Bell

From a POW camp in Japan, he saw the flash of Hiroshima; it was the light that would save him and maim him all at once

Paul Anka at Olympia on September 11th,1963.

Life

The Rat Pack’s inside man

Sammy Davis Jr.’s sex romps, Michael Jackson’s ruthlessness: Paul Anka’s memoir is an explosive glimpse of the stars he knew and loved

Canada

Pollocks, or bollocks? Lawsuit claims paintings thought to be fakes are real

A lawsuit by David Mirvish claims three Jackson Pollock works thought to be forgeries are genuine

Movies

The Schlegel family does Dallas, Canadian-style

An Ontario family with Mennonite values, became the toast of Texas society, even naming one son J.R.

Technology

Flying cars go back to the future

Once dismissed as a flight of fancy, the flying car is preparing for takeoff again

Canada

Rob Ford vs. Clayton Ruby

’I don’t recall,’ was the mantra during Toronto Mayor’s day in courtroom 6-1

Canada

Windsor strip club owner offers tuition money to interested performers

Dancing incentives for Canadian women are popping up as some 800 foreign dancers return home

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