Readings

How Not to Fail Queer Refugees

Immigration Canada is far from perfect. And when it comes to LGBT refugees escaping persecution in their home countries, it has a particularly long way to go. But, as Andy Lamey writes in his new book, there's hope.

Jerking Off the World: On Wayne Koestenbaum’s My 1980s

The poet/critic/professor’s collection of essays makes you want to love what he loves—Susan Sontag, Debbie Harry—though he’s less interested in discourse than he is in the act of loving itself.

Assault on the Reserves: Thomas King and John Ralston Saul in Conversation

The authors of The Inconvenient Indian and A Fair Country on the First Nations existence in Canada versus the United States, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, and the (exaggerated, unrealistic) need for Aboriginal consensus.