One of two second-place winners in Maisonneuve's annual Genre Fiction contest. This year's theme was mystery.

One of two second-place stories in Maisonneuve's annual Genre Fiction contest. This year's theme was mystery.

I’d just moved, and newcomer logic dictates that you never say no to anything.

The author on the Russian train ride that inspired his new non-fiction book Where the Bears Roam the Streets.

Part one of two.

The contradiction of innovation.

For Newtown.

Translation by Donald Winkler.

Stephen Harper’s A Great Game chronicled the birth of professional hockey with fanboy enthusiasm. But a closer look reveals a between-the-lines defence of the PM’s policies.

Summer Reads: What I Want to Tell Goes Like This, World of Paper, Burning Daylight and Democracy in Decline.

Summer releases from Owen Pallett, Chromeo, Fucked Up, Reuben and the Dark, The Black Keys, tUnE-yArDs, White Lung and Babe Rainbow.

Actors turn the human instinct for performance into art. Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project explores this unique psychology.

A power line could bring clean energy from Quebec into American homes, but at what cost? A report from the heart of New Hampshire's anti-hydro rebellion.

Remembering Stephen Leacock, Canada's master ironist, one hundred years after the release of Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich.

A review of this year's Glasgow International Art Festival.

On the creation of Equinox, DC Comics' first Cree superhero.

When the fun is over and the fans go home, someone has to pick up the trash.

The author of City of Bohane talks Ireland, Montreal and terrain vague.

Amid deadly attacks, Pakistan's Hazara community is closing in on itself.

From the Montreal-based writer's first novel, out this month.

Remembering a visit to a Spanish village with a hate-fuelled moniker.

Twenty years after Kurt Cobain's suicide, the author tries to walk in an icon's shoes.

Canadian cities are expanding, but their municipal powers haven't caught up. Why our city halls can feel like a parody of parochialism.

The man behind Montreal's the Unicorns and Clues talks about his new solo album.

If frat bros were fascists, they might have invented the quenelle, an inverted Nazi salute that's gone viral among disaffected French youth.

A photoessay.

On the found poetry of Mary Dalton's Hooking.

Spring Reads: Polyamorous Love Song, Smoke River, Failure to Thrive, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao and Complicity.

With government cuts looming, Parks Canada needs cash. Are the guardians of our unspoiled wilderness selling out?

New releases from Tokyo Police Club, the Hidden Cameras, the Pack A.D., Kelis, Kevin Drew, Each Other, Sam Roberts Band, St. Vincent and Pkew Pkew Pkew

Review: Untitled Feminist Show

Cryptozoologists head into the forest looking for something bigger than themselves.

Witnessing mob violence in Tanzania.

When the Parisian leans against me on the bleachers, I feel like I am winning by 250 points.