Hokusai's Picture Book of Everyday Life in Edo-Era Japan

The manuscript would have been destroyed if its pages had been used to create a printed book during Hokusai's lifetime.
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Why Are Detroit Cops Killing So Many Dogs?

A Reason investigation reveals widespread, unchecked violence against pets during drug raids. By C.J. Ciaramella.
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The World’s Greatest Living Animator And The Masterpiece He May Never Finish

Yuri Norstein’s four-decade quest to finish ‘The Overcoat.’ By Brian Phillips.
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New Project Uncovers What Americans Knew About the Holocaust

You can help historians learn how newspapers in the U.S. documented the persecution of European Jews. By Erin Blakemore (Apr. 11, 2016)
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The KFC Chicken Sandwich That Ate Pakistan

I am standing near the roundabout at Karachi’s famed Hassan Square, trying to decide if walking in the brutal afternoon heat is a good idea. I haven’t walked the length of this street in over a decade. There is a sign for Mukka Chowk, a roundabout that features a fist, built to commemorate the first prime minister and a symbol of the strength of Karachi’s immigrant population. I stop to stare at my old apartment building. I cross pedestrian bridges; steel traps that I am convinced will one day collapse and send me plummeting to the ground.
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Welcome to Canlandia

“Congratulations on moving to Toronto,” said the FedEx guy, looking down at the job contract I was scanning. There we were, surrounded by bars, clothing stores, and coffee shops full of people working on Macs—exactly where you would expect a young New Yorker to want to be. The city to which I would be returning, in contrast, had always felt a bit like a holding pen for the people waiting to get to the Lower East Side. You have Drake,” he said.
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Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult

Cruel and charismatic, Anne Hamilton-Byrne was the Australian leader of a doomsday cult who thought she was the Messiah. Abigail Haworth on the woman behind The Family
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