Sarah Laing

1 week ago | thespec.com | Sarah Laing

One night a month, an unusual phenomenon takes place in the back corner of the Bampot tea house on Harbord Street. As spectacles go, it’s notably quiet: A group of people, scattered around tables, bow their heads over books.

2 weeks ago | thespec.com | Sarah Laing

Meghan Markle just made her first appearance on someone else’s podcast — and the tears, they were a-flowing. “We spend so much of our lives just trying to prove something,” the Duchess of Sussex told friend, Montecito neighbour and It Cosmetics founder Jamie Kern Lima on her eponymous show, barefaced and tucked up on a chair in black comfies and fuzzy slip-ons.

2 weeks ago | thekit.ca | Sarah Laing

Meghan Markle just made her first appearance on someone else’s podcast—and the tears, they were a-flowing. “We spend so much of our lives just trying to prove something,” the Duchess of Sussex told friend, Montecito neighbour and It Cosmetics founder Jamie Kern Lima on her eponymous show, barefaced and tucked up on a chair in black comfies and fuzzy slip-ons.

2 weeks ago | thespec.com | Sarah Laing

The massively bestselling “How To Win Friends and Influence People,” published in 1936, peddled corporate-style people-pleasing tactics to those terrified of losing their jobs or desperate to get one at the height of the Great Depression. In 1992, “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus” offered a (flawed) sense of order to a world trying to navigate gender politics in a post-sexual revolution, pre-Girl Power feminism era.

3 weeks ago | thekit.ca | Sarah Laing

Forget movies, music or fashion: If you want to understand a generation, look to its self-help. The massively best-selling How To Win Friends and Influence People, published in 1936, peddled corporate-style people-pleasing tactics to those terrified of losing their jobs or desperate to get one at the height of the Great Depression.