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Arts & Culture / Terra Cognita

Notes from an Apocalypse

June 29, 2020July 6, 2020 - by Chelsea Vowel

In Jeff Barnaby’s latest horror film, the zombies are colonizers and only we are immune

A woman stands at the edge of a dark forest in a long dress and holds a candle in front of her face.

Arts & Culture

Following the Footsteps of a Nineteenth-Century Painter

June 25, 2020 - by Naomi Harris

In the summer of 2018, I embarked on a seventy-day canoe trip to retrace the journey of Frances Anne Hopkins

June 2020 / Visual Art

How One Painter Captures the Wonder of Ordinary Spaces

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 - by Sophie Weiler

Margaux Williamson’s portraits of interiors pay homage to what’s right in front of us

A collage of screenshots of various celebrities' pages from the Cameo app––photographs of celebrities with their names underneath––against a pink background.

Arts & Culture

Have Celebrities Become the Grifters of Quarantine?

June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 - by Joelle Kidd

Even in a pandemic, the famous are finding new ways into our minds and wallets

Arts & Culture

Confronting the Influence of Canada’s Colonial Monuments

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 - by Amy van den Berg

Artist Scott Benesiinaabandan reminds viewers of what Canada’s official histories try to suppress

Illustration of four people sitting in a row and reading books. The three white readers stare into their books. The brown reader looks up away from the book. Behind them is a shelf full of other books.

Arts & Culture / July/August 2020

How Not to Write a Book about a Minority Experience

June 4, 2020August 10, 2020 - by Tajja Isen

Publishers increasingly lean on outside experts to vet books for cultural insensitivity. Is it working?

Illustration of a young brown woman in a suit, telling jokes from onstage at a comedy club. The young, diverse audience laughs. Several male comics, older and white, stand outside the spotlight looking moody and resentful.

Arts & Culture / June 2020

The Comedy Culture War

May 25, 2020June 18, 2020 - by Erika Thorkelson

A new wave of comics is rejecting stand-up’s tired tropes

Vintage and damaged photo of a girl and her father playing outdoors. The father is wearing a yellow shirt and shorts and carrying his daughter, a child with pigtails. They are standing in front of a bungalow with an open door.

Arts & Culture

Why Nostalgia Is Our New Normal

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 - by David Berry

For hundreds of years, doctors thought nostalgia was a disease. Now, it’s a name for our modern condition

Illustration of an interconnected network of people, separated by a blazing yellow network that resembles a cable and separates the people into different boxes. The colour scheme is green, orange, and purple––a conceptual illustration of the internet network.

Technology

This Is the Internet We Were Promised

April 29, 2020May 1, 2020 - by Angela Misri

The World Wide Web hasn’t felt this supportive since it was invented. Why did it take a pandemic?

A photograph of the poet, Bronwen Wallace, in black and white. She is wearing jeans, a white shirt, and a scarf tied around her neck. Her hands are in her pockets and she is smiling at the camera.

Arts & Culture / May 2020

The Poet Whose Work Helped Set the Stage for #MeToo

April 24, 2020June 10, 2020 - by Anita Lahey

Twenty-seven years after her death, Bronwen Wallace’s feminist poetry feels newly relevant