In ancient Greece, the word for the soul was psyche . It is likely related to psykhein , meaning “to breathe” or “to blow,” which may come from the Indo-European root - bhes, meaning “breath.” All of
We were flying up a two-lane state road, passing everyone in sight. ‘Babe, why are you driving so fast?’ I asked. ‘What’s the emergency?’ My wife looked back at me in panic, and said: ‘Something’s wro
One of the most powerful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, after its terrible toll on human life, has been on our liberty. Around the world, people’s movements have been severely curtailed, tracked an
May 2, 2012 Matt Gee always says that “Junior does what Junior wants,” and what Junior Seau wants on this day is to die. Matt is out for breakfast when he gets the news, in the staccato notes of a bre
On a typical day, a long-time user of Goodreads, the world’s largest community for reviewing and recommending books, will feel like they’re losing their mind. After numerous frustrated attempts to fin
S mart Technologies, founded in Calgary in 1987, introduced its first interactive whiteboard in the early 1990s. It was a wall-mounted unit that allowed teachers to connect to the internet, run animat
Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble , the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of
Mike Postle was on an epic winning streak at a California casino. Veronica Brill thought he had to be playing dirty. Let the chips fall where they may. Mike Postle was on another tear. The moonfaced 4
L ast November , I stopped writing a regular column on art and culture for the Globe and Mail , my job for almost twenty years. Nobody noticed. I did not receive a single reader’s letter. I had a poli
T his country’s public libraries are hungry for content, especially for content that represents a range of voices and experiences — from Indigenous histories to French-language poets, from the memoirs
“I love actors where you don’t see them acting,” Plemons said. Credit... Jake Michaels for The New York Times After a slew of supporting roles in Oscar contenders by major directors, he is taking the
It takes a cinematic and academic outsider to leap into the deep waters of scholarly disputes with impetuous verve, as Robert Steven Williams does in the documentary “Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story” (which is streaming on Amazon). The film is rooted in the same theory that Barbara Probst…
Pfizer Inc., the multinational corporation responsible for pharmaceutical blockbusters Viagra and Lipitor, made Hollywood history in 2018 with a campaign for Chantix, a smoking cessation aid known to
Milton Friedman Credit... EdChoice Milton Friedman’s free-market ideas found favor in a free-love era and helped redirect the country toward the right. The aftershocks of his radical arguments are sti
The contemporary conspiracy-theory boom reached an astonishing new height (or nadir, depending on your perspective) this August when Marjorie Taylor Greene , an avowed believer of the QAnon conspiracy
I QUIT TWITTER and Instagram in May, in the same manner I leave parties: abruptly, silently, and much later than would have been healthy. This was several weeks into New York City’s lockdown, and for
Excerpted from Great Demon Kings , by John Giorno. Film stills from Warhol’s long-duration 1964 film Sleep , starring Giorno: five hours and 21 minutes of looped footage of his lover at the time, asle
“Y ou “You ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up?” These words, coming from a distorted, disembodied voice, are how the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume begins . And yeah
Aliens are calling me, but first I have to buy Lunchables. Soon, I’ll be heading into the Nevada desert. I will not be alone. It is pre-pandemic September, and tens of thousands of seekers are reporte
Illustration by hanna barczyk At this point, Chrystia Freeland is the Winston Wolfe of Canadian politics. You remember Mr. Wolfe, played by Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction , who arrives to clean up the
Shutterstock Part of Eater at Home Lately, it’s felt a bit like I am pouring my anxiety into every pan I own. From long-simmering bolognese or experiments like chickpea-flour pancakes to the familiari
For the modern American reader, few lines in French literature are as famous as the opening of Albert Camus’s “L’Étranger”: “Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.” Nitty-gritty tense issues aside, the first sentence of “The Stranger” is so elementary that even a schoolboy with a base knowledge of French…
Detail from A Snapshot, Paris (1911), by Alfred Stieglitz. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Wikipedia Pedestrian: a word fitted to the most drab, tedious and monotonous moments of
For a ‘filthy habit’ , cigarettes feature frequently in my personal vapour trail of fondest memories, each one a satisfying, if foggy, recollection. Never malodorous, never unhealthy. And I confess th
T his February , Coteau Books, one of the most respected literary presses on the Prairies, closed down after forty-five years in business. In April, Librairie Olivieri, the elegant Montreal bookstore
Paul Verhoeven’s flop about Las Vegas strippers has long been a camp classic. But, 25 years on, it’s time to recognise it as a bona-fide horror story too, writes Hugh Montgomery. I It might be one of
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Thumbnail of the SimRefinery title screen. 1 SimCity wasn’t meant to be taken seriously. The game was inspired by research on real-world urban planning concepts, 2,3 and although it was created as a w
Enlarge / Chances are, you and your loved ones might get into anxious quarantine moments like this one, shared between Sisko (Avery Brooks) and Quark (Armin Shimerman) in the DS9 season two episode "T
In 2011, Raquel Nelson was convicted of vehicular homicide following the death of her four-year-old son. Nelson, it’s crucial to note, was not driving. She didn’t even own a car. She and her three chi
A lison Alison Roman is the “ prom queen of the pandemic .” Or, at least, she was. The cookbook author and YouTube star, who rose to fame on the strength of her heady-yet-approachable recipes, low-key
The thing about pandemics is that the disease in question ends up mirroring in society what the virus does to the body. COVID-19 has upset social norms, ravaged industries from hospitality to retail,
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Firefighters applaud medical workers in Manhattan, New York, on 7 April 2020. Photo B A Van Sise/NurPhoto via Getty Adam Smith had an elegant idea when addressing the notorious difficulty that humans
When Rebekah Paltrow showed up at Dechen Thurman’s 8 a.m. meditation class for the first time, Thurman saw someone a lot like himself. Her last name advertised shared lineage with an ultrafamous blond