Readings

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.

How will Canada ever accept that its current-day treatment of First Nations peoples is based on a criminal past if it can barely grasp that it's mired in a criminal present?

Pere Ubu's new album taps into an old fantasy—leaving your troubles behind on the open road—which is as comforting now as it always was doomed.

An investigation into lost spaces, secret cities, and other inscrutable geographies.

Notes on an evening of charming Canadian earnestness punctuated by at least one moment of indisputable triumph.