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How We Failed Farley Mowat
We lost something more than a writer when Farley Mowat died at 92 last week. We lost an entire Canada.My first job in journalism was at Quill & Quire. Once, while preparing for some anniversary or...
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When Do We Hit Peak Embarrassment?
Adolescence is basically a morass of self-consciousness. It threatens to swallow every school dance, every class presentation, every public dinner with your increasingly embarrassing parents.A “fun”...
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Dancing with the Cars (No More)
“Can you imagine someone making the sequel to “Taxi Driver” without Scorcese and DeNiro’s consents? Insanity! I’m speaking up for Harmony and his original vision and for any creative person who cares...
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10 Podcasts You Really Ought To Be Listening To
The Internet is awash with so many podcasts that it can be hard to know what to listen to. Thankfully, we’ve done the hard work for you and picked out the best podcasts out there. Don’t just stand...
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When Transit Displaces the People Who Need It Most
The Atlantic’s recently rechristened CityLab has a pair of articles this week talking about one of the inseparable parts of building transit (or really, any) infrastructure in already-settled cities:...
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Time is a Mad Circle: Mad Men’s Successful Return to the Status Quo
True Detective was the show that told us time is a flat circle, but Mad Men is the show that lives by that maxim. It seems appropriate, then, that AMC is insistent on calling this year’s seven-episode...
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Have You Found Your Summer Jam Yet?
Vulture wonders if it’s possible to make V.C. Andrews’ Petals on the Wind an artful movie.A critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ A Case for Reparations, co-signed by TNC himself.Do you have a great deal of...
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The Favoured Son
There is a rip in the accused’s T-shirt. It starts above his ribs on his right side and runs in a long diagonal down to the small of his back. Roy, let’s call him, stands inside a Plexiglas and steel...
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The Whiteness of Apple
Like a reliable, rusty old factory machine, the Apple rumour mill recently sprang loudly to life in anticipation of the company’s rumoured purchase of Beats, news to which Apple fans largely responded...
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Male Nerds, Worthless Scum, and Reading Playboy for the Cartoons
“A question to my fellow male nerds:What the fuck is wrong with us?”Here is Ennio Morricone, among other things, doing his impression of the coyote howl from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.Carve out...
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When the Love Story Was Relevant
Watching the reality showPawn Stars is an exercise in reverse empathy: the point is, some minimum-wage inventory control specialist from Target shows up with a carving that his grandmother used to prop...
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Legal Pot and the Rise of the Well-Adjusted Teen
In a week that is alreadybringing the Second Amendment nutters out of the woodwork to defend the legal right to own killing machines, we’re also seeing an interesting case study in the Tenth Amendment...
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What Should I Do About My Friend That Everyone Hates?
Got a problem that’s got you feeling fucked if you do, fucked if you don’t? Send us your concerns and questions and Unfuck Yourself. Good news, tempestuous air travellers: you will no longer be asked...
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Exploding Whales, Harbingers of Doom
Among marine biologists, St. George’s Bay—a jagged, triangular body of water near the southwest corner of Newfoundland—is better known as the Whale Trap. Late last March, Jack Lawson, a research...
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NASA is Funny and Profiling Poet Patricia Lockwood
Whither visual comedy?Aug(De)Mented RealityShe’s Very Close To Being In Our Class But Isn’t Quite And That’s Terrible, An Unsuccessful Trip To The Sea-Side, Fraught Seating Arrangements, and other...
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Are You Colder in Your Second Language?
Imagine that you’re standing on a footbridge overlooking a train track. Beneath you, a small train is hurtling towards five unsuspecting people. The only way to save them is if a heavy object blocks...
View ArticleNessie Wants to Watch Herself Doing It
Doing what, I don’t know, being alive. The greenof her is a scum on the surface, she would liketo look at herself. Should I have a memory?she wonders. Of mother washing my frogskinin muddy water? I do...
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That’s Just Your Nostalgia: On Mariah Carey’s Elusive Chanteuse
One of last year’s minor injustices came when Mariah Carey’s “#Beautiful,” clearly intended as a summer-indenting single, got consigned to minor-hit status by two Gallic robots and a certain...
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Ballet Chills, Misogyny Kills, and Space Thrills
“I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things...
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