How we saw the world ...

When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had long admired, her desire to impress him got in the way at first, she said.

A jump in Canadian energy exports to the U.S. and further weakening of the loonie saw Canada's trade surplus with its neighbor balloon in December, helping the country to its first goods-trade surplus ...