Society

Hunger Makes Me

A man's appetite can be hearty, but a woman with an appetite—for food, for sex, for simple attention—is always voracious: she always overreaches, because it is not supposed to exist.

Right of Way

Three proposed pipelines. Two sides in opposition. And one woman in a cabin in the woods who isn't leaving until the energy companies go home.

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Guilt Upon the Body

The Hillsborough Disaster and the inquest into it were about lying cops. After 27 years, the right words are finally being used to talk about the dead.

Three Refugees

Flirting with crime, pushed toward activism, ensconced in ennui: here are three sketches from Berlin, where tens of thousands of asylum-seekers have brought just as many stories with them.

Women Do What They Need To Do To Survive

Our preconceived notions about sexual assault have far-reaching, dangerous consequences. 

Laughing at the Dead: A Guide

Nancy Reagan, Antonin Scalia, Glenn Frey: Are all celebrity deaths equal and equally hilarious?

Here's to Another Year of Being Doomed to Be Ourselves

Say what you will about Sisyphus, but at least he never pretended he was going to start taking advantage of his maximum RRSP contributions. Also, rock-pushing is great for your core.

After

When she heard he’d done it to others, she filed a complaint with the police. 

Bleeding Out the Jinn

Marginalized, ignored, oppressed—many here are broken. The rest are trying desperately not to break.

All the Bros I Love Leave Me

The time I tried to seduce an employee of this magazine into becoming my friend.