Features
The Big Fake(s): David Mirvish and the art crime of the century
The Reluctant Rockstar: What happened to Hayden, Canada’s last label star
Hollywood Saved: The afterlife of Stephen Lea Sheppard, television’s most authentic nerd
The website that taught the Internet how to talk about TV: An Ode to Television Without Pity
Infectious Ticks: On the backlash against David Foster Wallace
Men and the violent games they play: Three books about sports, fighting and masculinity
Interviews
Take the Ride: William Finnegan on his love affair with surfing
Downshift: John Jeremiah Sullivan looks for a new voice
Midlist and Out: Why the author of Shoeless Joe hasn’t seen a baseball game in 20 years
More than Mere Blood: The crime stories that David Grann won’t tell
Columns
(For two years I wrote a culture column for a business magazine. Sometimes it was a weird fit. Sometimes it worked.)
Our Paycheques, Ourselves: Garbagemen, executioners and what it really means to identify with work
No Skin in the Game: Jeffrey Sachs, McKinsey and the problem with consultants
Flash Boys: The Canadian kids living a Wall Street Fairy Tale
The Imaginary Circle: Dave Eggers’ dystopian vision of tech
Book Reviews
(I’ve been reviewing books on and off since 2005, for Maclean’s, the National Post and others.)
On the disappointing perfection of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom
On Leslie Jamison and the next big thing in nonfiction
Ian Frazier’s Travels in Siberia is a book like a perfect hamburger
Richard Warnica 