A selection of fanfiction tags from Archive of Our Own.

The Google Translate app is unexpectedly poetic.

A selection of new subject headings at the Vancouver Public Library,created between February and October, 2021.

From lorembarnak.com, a Quebecois swear generator, which can produce increasingly lengthy chains of French-Canadian curses on demand, in the style of the lorem ipsumnonsense placeholder text.

“Men who wear caps are men who talk weather.”

“Thank goodness history isn’t all goblets and tapestries.”

“Some phrases / literally could not be said.”

“his skull for an inkwell / his blood for ink / and a bayonet for a pen"

Found at the Vancouver Public Library: Pigeon Lore, Amish Hawaiian Adventures and more.

“Newfoundland is its own planet.”

Understocked soy blocks are a sign of hope.

On sophisticated begging and the foreign language of grants.

Naomi K. Lewis on the story of her nose.

“Under the yoke of the oppressor, we had become ignorant and unlettered.”

Circumstances of writers who entered the 29th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest, compiled from responses to a random survey of entrants.

You can change the image, but the imprint remains.

“What else might be sitting in there, rotting?”

How Do I Know I’m Canadian?

“I need the world to make just enough space for me that I can become completely unremarkable.”

Travelling refugees and clashes on cold nights.

Jonathan Ball predicts your fate in 5, 7, 5.

On the ecclesiastic qualities of writers.

Yann Martel takes on the literary education of Prime Minister Stephen Harper by sending him a book and a letter every two weeks.

“The trick is to keep looking toward the future, thus cancelling out nostalgia.”