Banner

Here to Help

Pasha Malla September 15, 2011 We all tell stories about other people. But is that impulse born of compassion or fear?

Here to Help

Illustration by Gérard DuBois.

From the street, a familiar voice: “You are a fucking moron attacking a completely innocent person!”

We peer out the window through a crack in the blinds, and there she is, standing on the corner, screaming into her BlackBerry. Dressed today in high heels, a fitted skirt and matching top, carrying a coordinated handbag, the woman, as always, looks the part of the established professional; if she doesn’t work directly with money, she’s at least good at making it. She stomps down the sidewalk, stops and hollers, “I regret my choices, but I …

  • You must be a subscriber to view the rest of this content.
Tenth Anniversary: Spring

ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

online content:

also in this issue:

  • Face the Music

    by Tim Falconer How can someone who passionately loves music also be a terrible singer? Tim Falconer takes up voice lessons—and discovers the surprising science of tone deafness.

  • The Big Job

    by Deni Y. Béchard As a teenager, Deni Y. Béchard went to Vancouver to live with his father, an ex-con with a penchant for telling tall tales. He met a man desperate to forget the past.

  • The Homesickness of Astronauts

    by Johanna Skibsrud "She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon."
  • [see full issue contents]