Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Christmas Avenue”
Last year, the Paris-based artist Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet did a residency at Villa Albertine, which gave him the opportunity to experience the bustling energy of the Big Apple. For the cover of the December 15, 2025, issue, he set out to playfully render the excitement of the holiday season. “During the evening rush, the traffic becomes…
Read MoreThe Ancient Roots of Doing Time
People knew about incarceration. Seneca, the Roman philosopher and dramatist (and court counsellor), argued that punishment should be proportionate to the crime, and resisted the notion that every offense required execution. Some crimes, he claimed, called for little more than “a private rebuke followed by public disgrace”; others warranted exile, chains, and imprisonment. In an…
Read MoreAnd Your Little Dog, Too, by David Sedaris
“He just bit me!” I said. The woman stood upright and pushed her hair away from her face. She was pretty except for her mouth, which was thin-lipped and hard-looking. “Huh?” “Your dog just bit me!” I repeated. “No, it didn’t,” one of the men said. I raised my pant leg and pointed to the…
Read MoreOliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
As Sacks aged, he felt as if he were gazing at people from the outside. But he also noticed a new kind of affection for humans—“homo sap.” “They’re quite complex (little) creatures (I say to myself),” he wrote in his journal. “They suffer, authentically, a good deal. Gifted, too. Brave, resourceful, challenging.” Perhaps because love…
Read MoreA New Afghan Bakery, in New York’s Golden Age of Bread
As the city’s bakeries have grown increasingly culturally specific, representing far-flung cuisines and styles—see Librae, in the East Village, which deploys Danish techniques and Middle Eastern ingredients like za’atar and black lime—they have also leaned into the culinary identity of New York. Radio Bakery, a spinoff of a Ridgewood restaurant called Rolo’s, sells bacon-egg-and-cheese focaccia…
Read MoreWho is Ghassan al-Duhaini, Abu Shabab’s successor?
As the chapter closes on Yasser Abu Shabab, 32, the “Popular Forces” militia leader who appeared in Rafah during the war and was widely viewed as a collaborator with Israel, Ghassan al-Duhaini has been named his successor. Soon after Abu Shabab was killed last Thursday, reportedly during a family dispute mediation, al-Duhaini, who was said…
Read MoreSouth Korea Pushes No-Fault Liability After Upbit Hack
Photo by BeInCrypto South Korean regulators are pushing strict no-fault liability rules on cryptocurrency exchanges, following a $28 million hacking incident at Upbit, the nation’s largest exchange. The Financial Services Commission will include these measures in its subsequent legislation for virtual assets. No-fault liability is a legal principle requiring compensation without proving negligence or wrongful…
Read MoreFirst Alert: light snow possible Monday
First Alert: A Winter Storm will bring impacts to Central NC on Monday in the form of light snow. Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for many counties from 7am on Monday to Noon on Tuesday. Accumulating snow could lead to slick road conditions especially along the NC/VA border. A quiet evening is on tap…
Read MoreMerz visit highlights new strategic, and strained, Germany-Israel bond
Notably, Germany opposed various sanctions proposals in the EU. It is one of the few countries Israel can count on to at least abstain from one-sided UN General Assembly resolutions. Friedrich Merz’s first visit to Israel as Germany’s chancellor comes as the relationship between the two countries has been both shaken and strengthened. It was…
Read MoreBenin coup attempt foiled by loyalist troops, interior minister says
The government of Benin says it has foiled an attempted coup by members of the West African nation’s armed forces. “The Beninese armed forces and their leadership, true to their oath, remained committed to the republic,” Interior Minister Alassane Seidou said in a televised address. Earlier on Sunday, a group of soldiers made a broadcast…
Read MoreChloé Zhao Has Looked Into the Void
How did this book make its way to you? I was driving through New Mexico to the Telluride Film Festival, and that’s when Amblin [Steven Spielberg’s production company] called me about this project. The reception was in and out, and they were saying that it’s about Shakespeare’s wife and the death of their son. I…
Read MoreMerz in Israel: ‘We will keep the memory alive’
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz commemorated the six million Jews murdered during the Nazi dictatorship at the central memorial site of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Sunday, during his inaugural visit to Israel. “We will keep alive the memory of the terrible crime of the Shoah committed by Germans against the Jewish people,” he wrote in…
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