Arts & Ideas

You can keep your “all,” thanks. I don’t want it.

I sighed loudly when I read the “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” cover line on the latest issue of The Atlantic (July/August 2012). When done sighing, I wondered what the “all” was now. I hoped the “all” was a nap because I was exhausted before I even opened the issue and read Anne-Marie… More »

Tim Hetherington, Kelso, 2007 - 2008, © Tim Hetherington / Magnum Photos

On a billboard near you: Tim Hetherington’s Sleeping Soldiers

While waiting for a bus on Lansdowne Avenue, a gritty strip in Toronto’s west end, I was struck by an image on a billboard (no small feat considering how often my nose is in the position of downward-facing iPhone). The photo was of a shirtless young man, his body curled up in what appeared to… More »