Is Anne Carson the First Poet with More Fans than Readers?
Her abstruse, down-tuned music is the soundtrack to poetry’s institutionalized life in the twenty-first century
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Hour of Twilight
Remembering John Bentley Mays, one of Canada’s most prominent and feared art critics
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Canada’s Bull Semen Boom
We export more than $100 million worth of “white gold” per year—much of it from a handful of designer superstuds
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Bridesmaid to Justice
What I learned about our criminal justice system from my day at jury pool
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Once We Were Builders
A bridge in limbo symbolizes our modern aversion to ambitious engineering projects
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We Deserve Polaris
Why the industry’s coolest music prize is earnestly—and sometimes painfully—Canadian
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Big Lonely Doug
How a single tree, and the logger who saved it, have changed the way we see British Columbia’s old-growth forests
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Glinda the Good Is Gone
A crosswind, the Norway’s leaves flash like sunfish in a man-made pond. Still waiting for someone to ask whether I believe in God. Maple keys footnote the ground. As a …
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Stop Calling Me Sweetie
Responding to sexist language in the practice of law
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