Essays
Features
Corona Covid by Towanna Miller. Photo by Nathalie Bertin. From "Breathe", an exhibition of masks at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.
To Coronavirus, C: An Anthropological Abecedary
After Paul Muldoon and Raymond Williams. Read more
There is a Wind that Never Dies
"If you are still alive, you must have had the experience of surrendering." Read more
Symbiosis in Warsaw
Ola Szczecinska returns to Warsaw to visit her grandmother, and to keep from losing her memories. Read more
This Postcard Life
Spiritual landscapes and unknowable people captured on film, used to convey a message. Read more
Fifty Years in Review
A new anthology of reviews, interviews and commentary on Joni Mitchell's music reveals the star-making machinery. Read more
Shouldn’t I Feel Pretty?
Somewhere in the sweat and ache and muscle I carved a new shape for myself that made more sense. Read more
Lessons I’m Going To Teach My Kids Too Late
"I want to buy a house. And build a secret room in it. And not tell the kids about it." Read more
Strange Women
Connie Kuhns' major profile of punk, politics and feminism in 1970s Canada: the Moral Lepers, the Dishrags and other revolutionary bands. Read more
Rinkside Intellectual
Stephen Smith investigates the hockey lives of Barthes, Faulkner, Hemingway, which were marked by dismissal, befuddlement and scorn. Read more
If I Was a Girl
Femme girls get free Slurpees, but boyish ladies get free cavity searches at the border. Read more
The Ghost of James Cawdor
A seance to contact a dead miner at Port Arthur, Ontario, in 1923—conducted by Conan Doyle himself. Read more
