The fish is a suspended phantom, its magenta skeleton an exquisite, vibrant exhibit of what lies beneath

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A wildland fighter witnesses an old burn's second act

Memories sneak up, tiptoe quiet as a cat. Boom like a slapshot

The unmistakable buzz of an approaching aircraft is enough to send my family onto the lawn

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This invertebrate does not go looking for prey

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For the sake of the large romantic gesture

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Hit everything dead on, even if it’s big

The names we learn in childhood smell the sweetest to us

Maybe my doctor has two patients named Ian Roy, and I’ve been sent the other Ian’s file

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No Skylab buzz in East Germany.

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Nature’s sanctity is the only portal to the future.

PRESS 1 IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THE BIG BANG.

Playing against the fastest chess player in the world.

"You have bruises / There was time / You spent trying to / Heal them. / As in, time wasted."

That’s one for the rice bag!

The maple leaf no longer feels like a symbol of national pride.

"my point that / i is but a : colon grown / too long"

If marriage was a television show, it might look something like this.

"The following resume / arrived by fax: One ex-military / man, 52, applying / for duty ..."

Scrape every last bit of English out of your throat.

Who puts those little stickers on the apples in the grocery store?

Destroying books for the greater good.

Remembering Norbert Ruebsaat.

Losers: you have a lifetime to hunt.

"I never went looking for them."

A first-hand account of Greenpeace's first expedition to stop U.S. underwater nuclear testing on September 15, 1971.

Michael Hayward on I Will Never See the World Again by Ahmet Altan

Michał Kozłowski on the ineffable Beverly Glenn-Copeland.

Jesmine Cham on the unknown story of two women who race around the world in eighty days.

Michael Hayward on one book you should read this year.

Michael Hayward on the perfect setup for a classic “film noir.”

Immigration questions 9 and 10: How do you like where you’re living now? Are you happy here?

Patty Osborne on Shtisel—an Israeli TV series about an ultra-religious Jewish family in Jerusalem.

Kelsea O'Connor on the self-published webcomic by Ngozi Ukazu.

Michael Hayward on an anthology of noir fiction set in neighbourhoods around Vancouver.

Kris Rothstein on a no-nonsense Irish heroine.

Kelsea O'Connor on queer lovers, gothic horror and fairy tale themes.

Mary Schendlinger on Fay Weldon's 48th or 53rd book, After the Peace.

Unreliable narrator, post-modernist self-reference and contemporary literary references—Michael Hayward on the nature of the autobiography.

Michael Hayward on a selection of work from the writing collective known as "the Beats"

Patty Osborne on twenty-four essays of "rants and reflections on growing up with LGBTQ+ parents."

Thad McIlroy on Jan Morris's "Smile Test" throughout Canadian cities.

Roni Simunovic reviews the Yaletown Return-It Express Depot.

Kelsea O'Connor on Our Animal Hearts by Dania Tomlinson.

Michael Hayward on Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel.

Mary Schendlinger on Vox.com's podcast Today Explained.

Anson Ching on Anna, Like Thunder.

Patty Osborne on Slow Twisting by Anonymous.

Stephen Osborne on Tekahionwake: E. Pauline Johnson's Writings on Native North America.

Michael Hayward on a collection of conversations with Brion Gysin—writer and counterculture legend.

Phrase books are tools of cultural globalization—but they are also among its casualties.

When building a nation, cultural riches can be lost.

Coming to harbour in a new world.

Science and the arts fulfil their functions to help us survive through the imagination.

Dividing and conquering local populations confines them to manageable administrative units.

In a world dominated by heroes, difference is not tolerated.

“Have patience” and “Tomorrow” are two inseparable locutions in the Portuguese tongue.

For a brief period the band CANO gave shape to the dream of a bilingual Canadian culture.

"The hemispheric context reveals the roots of the residential school system...Destroying Indigenous cultures was a positivist policy from Patagonia to Dawson City."

Lisa Bird-Wilson on UNDRIP, reconciliation, and the anxiety felt by Indigenous people in Canada.

What we do when we absorb words from a screen—and we haven’t yet evolved a verb for it—is not reading.

Libraries are not only essential in educating the soul, but in forming the identity of a society.

Our society is formed on the assumption of a healthy immune system.

The woman who called herself Tatiana Aarons gave me an address that led to a vacant lot.

Dogged dedication grants a reader vicarious immortality.

What we can—and can’t—learn from the plague

On March 5, 2006, a group of people gathered in a small Ontario city in the expectation of having books signed by an author who was not present.

The newspaper wars aren’t what they used to be.

A package-deal paradise reputation curtails gringo knowledge of Dominican life.

Faith seems to shiver when confronted by art.

What can the Brothers Grimm teach us about the state of our economic system? Everything.

Must artists declare their moral integrity?

Without air travel, family networks might have dissolved long ago.

There’s something not quite right about the grid on which the game is played.