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'A Reckoning with the Hardships of the Past and Present': An Interview with...
In Canada, blackness is often viewed in the shadow of our neighbours down south. David Chariandy took it upon himself to share a realistic portrait of what it means to be black in Canada with his debut...
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All The Ways An Era Ends
“It just seems strange. Lou Reed dies, but I live? It doesn’t seem right.” Dr. Oswald furrowed his brow. Only a little over two years had passed since the death of The Velvet Underground frontman in...
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The Monsters Next Door
Were a suburban American family to find themselves at home on the evening of September 18, 1964, chances are decent that that they would be watching network television. Pickings were slimmer back then;...
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'A Story That Begins with John Lennon and Ends with Donald Trump': An...
For several generations, an image of rebellion captured in a stuffy office above a printing press on a street in San Francisco has echoed through youth culture: to be embodied, rejected, imitated,...
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Los Angeles Haunts Itself
When Hollywood directors of the 1940s needed a character to glower upwards, rat out their boss, or wail “I didn’t do it, I swear!,” they called on Elisha Cook, Jr. He spent his career playing boyish...
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Pharmakon
His name was Jackson. His middle name was Five. See his parents, Carly and Ron, bending over the glass hospital bassinet with its oven-dish look, destining their newborn for showbiz and problems. He...
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Body of Water
mouthful-12-main.jpgMouthful is a monthly column about the author’s relationship with food, ten years into recovery from anorexia and bulimia.I’ve been in Oaxaca, Mexico, for the last month at a...
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Beautiful Losses
When I lived in Montreal in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, Leonard Cohen haunted the city in a way that not even Pierre Elliot Trudeau or Rene Levesque or any of the Habs or Expos did. A friend claimed...
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The Evolution of Sarah Polley
…for it is the fate of a womanLong to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1858,...
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Anatomy of a Surrogacy
One spring day, a woman living in a Canadian city emailed a couple she’d never met, who lived in another Canadian city, and told them she might be interested in carrying a baby for them. She’d seen...
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'So Many People Are Allergic to Ideas of Spirituality': An Interview with...
Jesse Jacobs is one of the many enigmatic Canadian cartoonists who have emerged from the blossoming comic scene surrounding Koyama Press. In the decade since launching the company, founder Annie Koyama...
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The First Time I Ate an Oyster
I’ve been eating oysters. This wouldn’t be news, but I’ve been vegan for five years. My professional life as a food writer depends on this nut-cheese niche, and I’ve abandoned it for mid-day lunches I...
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Reckoning with Ambiguity
Some afternoons after work, before getting on the train back from Manhattan to northern New Jersey, my dad would stop by Around The World on West 37th Street to pick up a copy of MOJO Magazine—one of...
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'Why Are We Always Food?': An Interview with Celeste Ng
On the first page of Little Fires Everywhere (Penguin Books), Celeste Ng gives away the ending. The Richardsons’ mansion is on fire, flames shooting out of each of the six bedrooms. The youngest...
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I Always Wanted To Be Owen Wilson
“Do I know what I’m doing today? No. But I’m here, and I’m going to give it my best shot.” - Hansel, ZoolanderSome of us are lucky enough to remember falling in love: like a bolt of lightning across a...
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'I'm Writing for Everybody Else, Too': An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward is one of the great writers of our time and when I dial her number, I am nervous. When she answers, I learn that she is trying to find her way out of a building after a radio interview on...
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The Last Distraction
Paint the Corners is a monthly column about baseball.And just like that, it’s over. A six-month season, a month of wildly entertaining playoffs, a record-setting seven-game World Series that felt...
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Nice and Cold
In a small, unglamorous Spanish restaurant, Gal Dove’s friends arrive with bad news. And not just bad news—life-changing news, in the truest sense of the word. He’s just found out that he’s been...
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'Torture Exists Because Of a Failure of Empathy': An Interview with Kevin...
Kevin Patterson was eager at first to run the ICU at the allied air base in Kandahar: Having spent long years as an underused medical officer in the dust bowl of Shilo, Manitoba, he was more than ready...
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