Readings

Those Were the Happiest Times

I’m giving myself a pass to eat what I want—my husband has cancer, after all. I find that it helps to keep a taste in my mouth.

Reading Bored White Girls

Their suburban lives are free of disturbances, and so they create their own in order to taste some kind of excitement.

Pushing the 'Ye Button

The archetypical Kanye fan is no longer the person who listened to Dipset but also watched Def Poetry Jam. They have been essentially priced out of fandom.

'He Couldn't Believe I Flew All the Way to Djibouti to Talk About Diarrhea': An Interview With Mary Roach

In her new book, Grunt, Roach points her flashlight to the lengths we’ll go—and have yet to go—to keep people alive.

Great Missenden Plays Itself

Exploring the town where Roald Dahl lived for the last thirty-five years of his life, and where some of his most famous writing is subtly but unmistakably set.

How to Keep Running

Sometimes you wind up in situations you never imagined you’d be in, and you do what you have to to get out.

'I Feel Like Everything Shouldn't Exist': An Interview with Hannah Black

Talking to the artist and author of Dark Pool Party about celebrities as archetypal figures, shunning posterity, and whether we finally have the correct conditions for heterosexuality.

Best Sisters

The way we describe ability and care has changed over the centuries, but my relationship with Kiddo doesn't need to be defined.

Yer Favourites

How an obnoxious subset of their fan base led me away from the Tragically Hip, and Gord Downie brought me back.