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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is Glad Canadian Governments Are Corrupt Too
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"7554","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]Americanah author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Rob Ford's drug...
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The (News) Cycle of Addiction
Addicts simply can’t be trusted. That’s why, as a resident of the city in which Rob Ford is mayor, I’ve been incessantly clicking refresh on Twitter to find out the latest news. My finger is getting...
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The Murder of Jaswinder Sidhu and the ‘Honour Killing’ Problem
In 2000, Jaswinder Sidhu’s body was found in an irrigation ditch in India with her throat slit. She was 24. Now, 13 years later, her friends and family are testifying at an extradition hearing for her...
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Book Five: James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime
Until mid-April I had never read or wanted to read James Salter. In my head, he belonged to a class of old, manly American writers I knew to respect, but also to hate: Norman Mailer, of course; John...
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The Forgotten Ring
The bride holds a cellphone tightly against the left side of her head. She stands in the middle of the city hall wedding chamber in a white lace dress, cut just above her knee. Her name is Sarah. It’s...
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The Day Canada’s Parliament Remembered To Do Its Job
Did we mention Thomas Mulcair trained as a lawyer? The NDP leader reminded the Commons and anyone who was watching Question Period yesterday of that part of his biography during an extended and...
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An Anxiety-Free Liberace, Drag Race, and Other Notes on Camp
The Liberace of Stephen Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra (which premiered last Sunday on HBO) seems quite comfortable in his own skin. And yet, everywhere in Liberace’s life are signs that he...
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How to Make People Quit Lying About Their Sex Lives
Short of spying on people in motel rooms or honeymoon suites, which academic institutions frown upon, the only way interested parties can find out about people’s sexual behaviour is self-report...
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In Praise of Romantic Delusions
Things might have gone better for the Karamazovs if they’d been sent to anger management therapy. The story would’ve ended in hugs, with the brothers taking responsibility for, and “ownership” of,...
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The Imperfectly Heroic Life of Dr. Henry Morgentaler
“Hello, I’m Henry.”A friend of mine recalls that Dr. Henry Morgentaler said these words to her in the mid-2000s, warmly introducing himself before performing her abortion. The room, with its familiar...
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The Other Beautiful Game: On Basketball’s Kinetic Splendor
Does anyone else miss Steph Curry? No disrespect to LeBron James or the venerable Tim Duncan—who, at this point, all basketball fans are legally required to acknowledge as the greatest player of his...
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Don’t Let the Internet Keep You From Hating Yourself
Being on the internet—are you with me?—means saying what you think nearly as soon as you think it. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. You can spend three days workshopping a tweet or you can just...
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You’re Not Going to Want to See This
A couple of fiftieth anniversaries have rolled around recently, neither with as much fanfare as it might have deserved. Last year, the novel A Clockwork Orange celebrated five decades of publication,...
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The Erotic Antagonism of Gengoroh Tagame
During a trip to Japan in the summer of 2001, the renowned book designer Chip Kidd found himself captivated by some meticulously drawn bondage porn. He was on a tour of gay Tokyo given by his friend...
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Kathleen Wynne Could End the Rob Ford Mess (and Bum Everybody Out)
Two weeks into a scandal-crisis-freakshow in Toronto, it’s starting to dawn on people that, as bizarre as it may sound, Rob Ford can ride this out. The usual tactic of simply refusing to engage the...
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Well, That Sucked: What Went Wrong This Week For ... Hypochondriacs
Welcome to the second installment of Well, That Sucked, our weekly compendium of exactly what it sounds like. Thrown in this week’s garbage: hypochondriacs.You know that constant, creeping feeling of...
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Five Questions With Anne Collins About Henry Morgentaler
In 1985, The Big Evasion by Anne Collins was published just in time to capitalize on the country heated abortion debate across the country. Aptly subtitled Abortion: The Issue That Won't Go Away, the...
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Pattern Recognition: Unpacking the Teachings of Will Smith
I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything. – Will Smith, interview in New York MagazineLook...
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Week in Review: Easy Ways to Spice Up Your Relationship
Here’s a stupid thing that happened this week: My girlfriend and I got into a fight about beans.I cook dinner most of the time. If I don’t, either my girlfriend will make herself a smoothie and call...
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Shakespeare Helps Us Fumble Through Life
At the Toronto Film Festival screening of Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, an audience member asked the director why he chose to shoot in black and white. “Quite frankly it’s faster,” Whedon...
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