Giller Prize-winning author Omar El Akkad’s powerful writing is making a mark
The Egyptian-Canadian author is turning journalistic savvy into literary clout. He’s on this year’s Maclean’s Power List.
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Sheila Heti redefines what a novel can be
The author set out to write a book ‘that no one can say what it’s about.’ And possibly created a whole new genre.
Neil Young vs Spotify, and the gathering storm
Terry Glavin: The battle between musician and streaming giant was neatly settled. But it is part of a much bigger, unfolding crisis over the role of truth and facts.
The joy of clutter
Surrounding ourselves with things we love is a salve in trying times
This letter tells the story of Johnny Cash’s pivotal 1961 trip to Newfoundland
Luther Perkins, Cash’s lead guitarist at the time, wrote the letter to his wife
The unbearable beauty of Linda Evangelista
The supermodel’s imperious gaze came to define the ’90s. Now, she says a cosmetic procedure has stolen her looks, her livelihood, her very identity. So whose fault is that?
’Xena: Warrior Princess’ taught me how to be a powerful woman
Kai Cheng Thom: Lucy Lawless’s Xena showed me a way to be feminine, and at the same time strong, fierce and unstoppable
The search for Anne Frank’s betrayer
Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan’s new book describes the six-year investigation into how the Nazis learned about the Amsterdam annex where the Frank family hid during WWII
Is the boys-club era of NHL management finally ending?
The Canadiens, Leafs and other teams are welcoming women to their executive ranks, but the key job of general manager remains a glass ceiling
The Indigenous grandmothers who stopped a pipeline
Plans to flush out salt caverns for gas storage hit a wall of Mi’kmaq grandmothers