The Best Way to Combat Climate Change is Compromise
We’ve turned the oil industry into an ideological war zone—and that is why both sides are losing
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Why I Don’t Read Rebecca Solnit
It’s time to stop buying into the author’s brand of pop feminism
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How Gamergate Pioneered the Backlash Against Diversity
The fight to keep women out of the new economy started with video games
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Kaie Kellough’s Debut Novel Is a Grand Experiment
The Montreal writer gives voice to the city’s iconoclasts
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When America Declared War on Us
Canadian fears of a US invasion have a long history in our literature
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Why We Find It So Hard to Describe Grief
Sometimes the best way for writers to express loss is to avoid it entirely
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Living In Between Fat and Thin
In a society where size means everything, we are constantly negotiating to fit in
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My Second Life as a White Writer
I publish thrillers under a pseudonym because I know how my creative choices will be interpreted by an industry fixated with identity
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What My Father’s Death Taught Me about Poetry
Between something and nothing, poems—and life—find their meaning
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Audiobook Anxiety and What Constitutes ‘Real’ Reading
Romanticizing the printed word ignores all of the other benefits storytelling can offer
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