When I Don’t Feel Black Enough
I grew up in a black family, but in barbershops I still feel like a trespasser in my own skin
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How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover
My unlikely secret has nothing to do with luck
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It’s Not My Job to Teach You about Indigenous People
If you don’t have time to educate yourself, then I can’t help you
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The Easter Bunny
My sister’s mental illness made it hard for us to trust her. But there was more to her life than I could have believed
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The Joys of Gas-station Cuisine
On the board-game circuit, a choice between convenience and conviviality
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Remembering Stuart McLean
Friends share stories of the legendary writer and radio host
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Running the Road to Nowhere
Plenty of Canadians see the North as either a dollar-sucking wasteland or a pristine emptiness. Either way, they’re wrong
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How Quebec Separatism Prepared Me for Trump’s America
Staying is one thing—belonging is another
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I Was Friends with a Serial Killer
Think you can spot a homicidal maniac? Think again
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On Going to Art School in My Sixties
Why I gave up writing to become an artist
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