Reduce, Reuse, RIP
With Canada entering the Golden Age of Death, green burial options are going mainstream.
With Canada entering the Golden Age of Death, green burial options are going mainstream.
Part two of two.
Mathieu Denis’ Corbo is an accomplished work about the FLQ that eschews stereotypical sixties aesthetics.
For the first time in Canadian history, homes with a single occupant outnumber those with nuclear families. On the new domestic frontier.
He looked at me as if there had never been anyone else. Until he didn’t.
Photographs from the "Revolution of Dignity."
Hunting covenants and dinosaurs through the Alberta floods.
From Le sel de la terre: Confessions d’un enfant de la classe moyenne, translated by Melissa Bull (Nouveau Projet’s Documents series, Volume: 3).
Albert Shin's new film is the future of Canadian cinema.
On Andy Burns’ fan-pleaser Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks.
Spring listens from BadBadNotGood and Ghostface Killah; Two Gallants; Cancer Bats; THEESatisfaction; Dan Deacon; Of Montreal; Young Guv; Drake and Harrison.
Three poems by Chad Campbell.
An autistic New Brunswick woman has spent years searching for somewhere to call home. While Savannah Shannon is unique, her story is not.
O the great migration of time in money!—Arkadii Dragomoshchenko.
An ache in the gonads is just an ache in the gonads, right?
Playing Quebec's VLTs feels casual. That’s a big part of the reason people pour their paychecks into them.
More and more women are hitting the weight room and revelling in the power they discover at the squat rack.
Has Naheed Nenshi's time in office changed Calgary's racial climate?
In Ken Babstock’s latest, the poet continues on a challenging course. On Malice is important, whether we like it or not.
Originally published in la revue Moebius (No. 137, Mai 2013). Reprinted with permission. Translation by Melissa Bull.
Is Girls solving a problem of representation, or spoon-feeding its target audience?
Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, explores the radical instability of post-modernist urban life.
The fight for Haida Gwaii is more than a matter of land.
Troubled by the recent revelation that the government is spying on us? It’s nothing new.
Only four snippets of text remain, part of a lengthier phrase broken up by time and neglect.
First-place winner from the 2014 Quebec Writing Competition.
The second-place winner from the 2014 Quebec Writing Competition.
Translated by Melissa Bull.
Part one of two.
Winter Reads: Sweet Lechery; The Evening Chorus; First Year Healthy; For Your Safety, Please Hold On; One Hundred Days of Rain.
Twenty-five years after the Montreal Massacre, there is still much work to be done to stop violence against women in Canada.
Winter Listens: Death from Above 1979, TV On The Radio, Neil Young, Taylor Swift, Azealia Banks, Stars, Meligrove Band, Parkay Quarts and Absolutely Free.
Now more than ever, people are recovering from life-threatening illnesses. But survival is never simple.
The field of gender studies was created by women for women, but now, men are carving out a place for themselves in the field. Not everyone is embracing the change.
The Montreal writer Carol Dunlop and the Argentinian novelist Julio Cortázar carried out one of the greatest literary love affairs of the twentieth century. But their romance was shadowed by tragedy.
After years of burying her Trinidadian accent, the author reawakens to the richness of her native tongue.
An interview with Brecken Hancock about her new collection, Broom Broom.
Why is a younger generation flocking to an old hobby?
The role of the body in Christian worship has historically inhabited an ambiguous space between sacred and sinful.
Nineteen months after Pauline Marois led the Parti Québécois to victory, she dragged it to defeat. How will history remember the province’s Iron Lady?
There is pure pleasure in sound free of meaning.
A photoessay.
Translated by Melissa Bull.