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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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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