SocietyThe modern Baby Boomer’s guide to dyingRobert McCrum’s Every Third Thought contemplates the endgame for a generation that’s changed everything it touches
SocietyHow public libraries are reinventing themselves for the 21st centuryCoding workshops. 3D printers. And books. Far from extinct, today’s public library is about access to technology as much as to knowledge
BooksThe American West was even wilder than we thinkHistorian and author Mark A. Lause contends the cowboys of the mythic American West were more diverse—and downtrodden—than we realize
WashingtonDavid Frum: Donald Trump is a threat to Western democracyThe conservative commentator and author warns that ‘Trump-like events’ are proliferating around the world, not just in Washington
BooksThese are the five very different books shortlisted for the RBC Taylor PrizeTwo intense works of history, a wrenching account of contemporary racism, and two intimate memoirs make for wide-ranging reading
BooksAn idiosyncratic survey of great Canadian readsRandy Boyagoda’s picks for CanLit to curl up with this winter
BooksIn the world of Canadian book prizes, fiction meets politicsIncreasingly, Canadian writers are finding creative fire in issues, identity and the immigrant experience
CultureDavid Chariandy wins 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust prizeThe Toronto-born writer takes home one of Canada’s biggest literary prizes
PoliticsJoe Biden: Hope, unchangedPaul Wells on the launch of the former vice president’s ’American Promise Tour’—an exercise in grieving and the start of a presidential run