Readings

The Year in Rage Testing

A friend texts: Have you heard this term “she-cession”?  You reply with another term you’ve seen popping up: Forced domesticity.

The Year in a Travel Visa

There was something about the country where I was born that had always eluded me.

'Every Manner of Horror is Just a Google Search Away'

Novelists Dashiel Carrera and Michael Seidlinger on security and surveillance.

The Year in Medieval Erotics

It seems this year’s offerings from the Dark Ages want to raise a carnal, earthy prayer to the present age. 

The Best Worst Year

On pregnancy and grief during pandemic lockdown.

The Year in Empathy

People arrive at the ER every day looking for my help, and the uncomfortable truth is that I’m often so overwhelmed that I struggle to connect with them.

Not Even Seventeen

On two movies about teenagers.

'Sink Back In To What Was Lost': An Interview with Jonathan Escoffery

The author of If I Survive You on the gift of humour, the impact of the housing crisis, and family legacy. 

My Experience In a School Shooting

“Not here, not this school.” Until it is.

The Year in Stupid Tattoos I'm Sure I Won't Regret

I’m the first woman in the world to get a tattoo because she’s sad! I invented it!