Ian Brown

Facebook alone has been known to upload six billion photographs in a month. We snap as many pictures today, every two minutes, as were taken in the entire 19th century, another boom time for photography

We live in a world where we spend more and more time laying out our lives for digital public consumption, then wondering if it’s a good idea

Readers who struggle to engage with an ambitious piece of fiction should try listening to it instead – some works just lend themselves to the audio treatment

Who gets the main floor and who gets the basement? A glimpse of what married life looks like when even spouses need to keep their distance

The greatest gift Kilodney left behind was his understanding of his value as a character in Canadian literary history

In between bickering, bantering and hand-wringing, the leaders forgot about the most important people during their debate: the voters

Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card has concerns about data becoming inaccessible

Crossroads sets out to track the evolution of an American Dream, from its optimistic peak in the early 1970s to its stark and relentlessly split pessimism today

As COVID-19 and Omicron continue to shape our lives in 2022, there is light at the end of the tunnel – but what it illuminates may be unsettling

Economist Adam Tooze and Ian Brown in conversation

As the protests and blockades have shown, a country’s flag has more than one meaning. Ian Brown explores the changing symbolism of the maple leaf

100 years ago, The Globe and Mail hired its first staff photographer, and nearly four dozen have followed since. Explore our curated collection of their work, more than 1,650 images, year-by-year from 1922 to 2022

After a global search for the perfect instrument, Koerner Hall gets a new concert grand. Ian Brown finds hope among the hammers

There are challenges of learning to row, an ancient pastime currently undergoing a reputational redo. But as Ian Brown discovers, the sport has its own technical rhythm, a lot of thinking and early mornings

Globe and Mail journalist Ian Brown discovers that curling is the quintessential Canadian winter sport, a team game in which terrible rock placement can sometimes by forgiven by good sweeping

River cruising may only give you a taste before whisking your attention away to something else. But the Danube forces you to acknowledge the weight of Europe’s history

Why is it that we immediately, unconsciously, mistrust the elderly? Because we assume that a hesitant gait automatically denotes a hesitant mind? There is no science to support that contention