The Other Worst President
To understand Trump, we need to examine the man who failed America during the Great Depression
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What Western Education Didn’t Teach Me
How a group of Nishnaabeg elders helped me to let go of what I’d learned and embrace Indigenous thinking
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The Wild Rise of CanLit
Nick Mount’s Arrival brings Canada’s 1960s literary stars to life—but overlooks the era’s diversity
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The Lost Indigenous Youth of Thunder Bay
In Seven Fallen Feathers, Tanya Talaga exposes a northern city’s hard truths
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The Case for Reading Quebec’s Most Reclusive Author
Réjean Ducharme was brilliant, influential, and mostly invisible to English Canada
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Thirty-five Million Canadians Are Not Enough
A nation founded on immigration and diversity? Not quite. How Canada’s closed borders wrecked the country’s development
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What I Learned From Talking to Failed Suicide Bombers
Stopping violent extremism means confronting the West’s role as an ISIS spectator
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How Claire Messud Learned to Talk Like a Teenage Girl
The author’s new novel gives readers a glimpse into the complicated lives of young women
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Why Good Historical Fiction Is so Hard to Write in Canada
Can Kathleen Winter’s new novel make us care about our country’s past?
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The Personal Essay Isn’t Dead. It’s Just No Longer White
Recent criticism of the form’s faults says more about the genre’s historical whiteness than it does the talent of its new stars
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