Readings

Mainstream Creep: Keeping Feminist Film Criticism Subversive

Feminist film writing has historically struggled with a problem of reach limited by privilege. Can online journals solve the access issue without bowing to popular influence? 

'Empathy Implicates You': An Interview with Bill Hader

On Jeffrey Dahmer, classics professors, soccer hooligans and comic books. 

The First Time I Painted a Painting

"'What legacy will I leave behind tonight,' I thought to myself as I sipped my Rioja and a couple behind me earnestly called each other 'babe' every minute or so."

Here's to Another Year of Being Doomed to Be Ourselves

Say what you will about Sisyphus, but at least he never pretended he was going to start taking advantage of his maximum RRSP contributions. Also, rock-pushing is great for your core.

Set it on Fire and Start Over: Courting Failure with Idra Novey

Speaking with the author of Ways to Disappear about embracing impulsiveness, the common ground between writing and translating, and the purifying power of flames.

Dark Science

We're more likely to stare at the light in our hands than the light above. What do we lose when we lose the sky? 

After

When she heard he’d done it to others, she filed a complaint with the police. 

A History of Horny

On the evolution of a word that feels eminently like itself, from animalistic allusions to rivers of lava-like semen.

'Everything I Like is Uncool': An Interview with the Authors of a Book of Rom-Com-Inspired Poetry

Vancouver writers Dina Del Bucchia and Daniel Zomparelli on what we can learn from romantic comedies, why unrequited love is gross, and why everyone wants to slap Nicolas Cage.

Getting Away With It

From R. Kelly to Bill Cosby, sexual abuse by public figures is often ignored by fans in order to keep the illusion of what they create alive.