Readings

In this week's installment of Unf*ck Yourself: getting cut out by a friend, struggling to make it in media, and an update from a past letter-writer.

The Giller Prize-winning author returns with a new novel, Quartet for the End of Time, which challenges not only her readers, but the limits of artistic expression.

Television has long treated sex as either a perfect analogue or a comical inversion of the rest of character's life. Masters of Sex offers the radical notion that sex can be more than a metaphor.

Visiting with rival agonistes in the struggle over the Central African Republic. The third in a series of dispatches.

Observers optimistically cast Xi Jinping as a reformer, but as Occupy Central protesters in Hong Kong are finding, you conflate "reform" with partisan ideology at your own peril.

The protagonists of Dionne Brand's Love Enough grow up in the foster care system, which began, historically, as a form of indentured labour. Is it still failing kids?

A chart attached to a Bloomberg News story this week seemed to suggest Toronto would be denser than New York by 2025. It won't be, of course, and thank goodness for that.

Vaguely feverish notes on a few days of Ronnie Spector, Fagen-esque forgettable lyrics, the reunited Unicorns, and pastries unclassifiable in French or any other tongue.

A new child brings immediate responsibilities and stresses, but a person doesn't "become a father" overnight.