Longreads

The brief, improbable Hollywood stardom of Sabu.

On growing up trans in the Yukon.

Likeability? That’s for losers. Or so I thought, until I developed an unexplained chronic illness, and winning my doctors' approval became intertwined with my well-being.

How the actor Boris Karloff obscured his Anglo-Indian roots and reinvented himself into an icon of Hollywood horror.

How hopeful parents' struggles with a major Canadian surrogacy agency illustrate the need for regulation.

Mary Alice dedicated her career to portraying Black women with depth and nuance. Why were there so few parts in which she could shine?

Listening to the American Southwest.

Searching for a new literary realism in the Anthropocene.  

I’d been enthralled by his writing for some years, but I had to go see for myself how the man’s brain worked.