Letter from Montreal

Alex Manley spent years working in a Montreal dépanneur that had something for everyone: cigarettes, newspapers and, beneath the counter, little baggies of mysterious white powder.

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

A look back at the career of the most graceful question mark ever to don a pair of skates.

The author of I Am My Own Betrayal discusses why poetry is like Tumblr, his former life as a video-game-developer and the Fibonacci sequence.

Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has died at fifty-six.

The wit behind the joyfully nerdy web comic Hark! A Vagrant releases a new book.

A Montreal museum's latest show highlights the importance of building in war-torn areas.