This Scribbly Stuff
Jilian Tamaki’s art is packed with meaning, not morals
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How Canada Sold Out Its Publishing Industry
The sale of a beloved Canadian publisher to a foreign entity—in the face of laws prohibiting such transactions—may be one of the country’s worst cultural crimes
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Pathways to Pleasure
What a story is “about” doesn’t really matter. What matters is how a story is performed
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A Loss for Words
A Nisga’a poet turns the English language against his colonialist readers
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The Myth of the Lone Genius
In Canadian literature, community is often the only way minority voices are heard
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With My Children, Learning to Love the Little Things
From The Borrowers to Peter Rabbit, the literature of smallness opens up big ideas for both kids and adults
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What We Mean When We Talk about Infertility
Literature propagates the myth that women who can’t conceive bear some moral failing
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What Happens When Authors Are Afraid to Stand Alone
Writing as an individual pursuit has been replaced by “community”—and literature is the worse for it
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The Quiet Pursuit of Extreme Solitude
What we can learn from a man who spent twenty-seven years alone in the woods
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We Let Work Define Us. Why Not Play?
Hobbies aren’t just fulfilling—they keep us healthy, mindful, and sane
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