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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Threshold

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

The Scars To Prove It

In the mid 2000s, new programs made it seem like Canada might finally reckon with the toxic legacy of residential schools. Less than 10 years later, they're going broke and forgotten. Sounds familiar.

Change Your Mind, Change Yourself: An Interview with the Dardennes

The sibling filmmakers on letting a story grow organically, the challenges of representing depression on screen, and finding variances in a repetitive structure.

The Language of the Elite, the Language of the Many

How the dominance of English affects the ways other cultures see each other.

You, Too, Can Be Blessed with an Uneventful Life

In Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, everything happens so much. What about those books where nothing happens, and it's fine?

The Stealing Bugs Pt. 4

How do you recount a night of mind-altering sex? Perhaps you don't.

The Blank Screen Will Not Save You

The desire to refresh, recharge, and reinvent ourselves is natural, even healthy—but resolutions tied to objects and tools tend to disappoint us.