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Canada Fancy

A distinctly Canadian strain of parsimony

False Light Case

Trompe l’oeil—a crass parlor trick or a great advance in Western art?

Fit for a Legend

Pelé’s sky-high forever home conforms to a strict football theme.

It Ain’t Easy Bein’ Green

A green front yard won’t save you, but it’s still better than concrete.

Natural’s Not in It

There’s something astoundingly ironic about using cutting-edge technology to tell a story of native wisdom triumphing over techno-industrial will.

On the Wrong Path

If you need more prairie in your life, go outside.

Sounds of Silence

The incidental noise of domestic work is both mute and shackling.

Technical Difficulties

Hope for revolutionary agency is invested in the fragmented forms of another time.

The Laughter that Binds

Without a Party, what is left other than trolling Dezeen?

A Well-Paved Road

A good-intentioned book channels a torrent of research and riffs into galaxy-brain takes.

This Brutal House

Hard-nosed rationalism proves a poor prophylactic against sinuous human desire.

This POPS Rocks

The high artifice and warm sensuality of it all tickle in a good way.

Trust Fun

Try to parse the narrative layers that great wealth accrues around itself, and you’ll up dizzy fast.

Vacation Blues

As moralizing, *The White Lotus* is blithely hollow; as camp, it’s depressingly prurient.

A Humble Journeyman

The journey from social practice to blue-chip Westside gallery is an odd one.

Bowled Over

Truly, demolition is the great leveler.
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