From “Matisiwin” by Marie Christine Bernard, translated by Melissa Bull.

Sophie Deraspe's documentary The Amina Profile strips back a romance to reveal an ugly truth.

Fall reads from Patrick DeWitt, Kate Beaton, Josh Massey and more.

New albums from Carly Rae Jepsen, Destroyer, FKA Twigs and more.

Our education system isn’t designed to help second-generation Canadians retain non-official languages. Chantal Braganza on why losing a mother tongue is akin to losing a part of yourself.

Don’t get too excited for the reboot of David Lynch’s cult series, Maija Kappler warns. The show was tired before it got cancelled the first time.

Too often in television and real life, women must die to be taken seriously. Laura Wright on victims as props, not people.

Fragments of my parents’ past are strewn all over Montreal's Chinatown.

John Semley pulls back the skin of Hannibal, a show that prizes mouthwatering aesthetics over meaty writing.

Searching through fact and fiction to confront anti-Semitism in Quebec.

How Lost’s creators couldn’t write themselves off the island.

Sculpture has always been a controversial art form in Iran, but that is where Parviz Tanavoli has found his greatest inspiration.

Why does sexism take over Calgary’s streets during Stampede season? Lyndsie Bourgon investigates gender roles in Canada’s Wild West.

Life of Agony was about to hit it big when their lead singer walked. How Mina Caputo found her way back to the band and became an advocate for transgender rights.

Every April, Dagoberto Cruz Miranda leaves his family in Mexico and flies to Ontario to work on a farm for six months.

From “Notes du Mile End” by Nicolas Langelier in Nouveau Project, Issue 07. Translated by Melissa Bull.

Summer reads from Jordan Tannahill, Marc Bell, Marina Endicott and more.

New summer music from Jazz Cartier, Metz, Sasha Chapin and more.

It’s easy not to be the butt of the joke when you’re the one writing it. Adam Nayman on how Seinfeld’s comedic brilliance relied on a privileged perspective.

For veterans and their families, life with PTSD is a battlefield. One woman has taken the fight to Parliament Hill.

There is a ferret in my freezer.

With Canada entering the Golden Age of Death, green burial options are going mainstream.

Part two of two.

Mathieu Denis’ Corbo is an accomplished work about the FLQ that eschews stereotypical sixties aesthetics.

For the first time in Canadian history, homes with a single occupant outnumber those with nuclear families. On the new domestic frontier.

He looked at me as if there had never been anyone else. Until he didn’t.

Photographs from the "Revolution of Dignity."

Hunting covenants and dinosaurs through the Alberta floods.

From Le sel de la terre: Confessions d’un enfant de la classe moyenne, translated by Melissa Bull (Nouveau Projet’s Documents series, Volume: 3).

Albert Shin's new film is the future of Canadian cinema.

On Andy Burns’ fan-pleaser Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks.

Spring listens from BadBadNotGood and Ghostface Killah; Two Gallants; Cancer Bats; THEESatisfaction; Dan Deacon; Of Montreal; Young Guv; Drake and Harrison.

Three poems by Chad Campbell.

An autistic New Brunswick woman has spent years searching for somewhere to call home. While Savannah Shannon is unique, her story is not.

O the great migration of time in money!—Arkadii Dragomoshchenko.

An ache in the gonads is just an ache in the gonads, right?

Playing Quebec's VLTs feels casual. That’s a big part of the reason people pour their paychecks into them.

More and more women are hitting the weight room and revelling in the power they discover at the squat rack.

Has Naheed Nenshi's time in office changed Calgary's racial climate?

In Ken Babstock’s latest, the poet continues on a challenging course. On Malice is important, whether we like it or not.

Originally published in la revue Moebius (No. 137, Mai 2013). Reprinted with permission. Translation by Melissa Bull.

Is Girls solving a problem of representation, or spoon-feeding its target audience?

Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, explores the radical instability of post-modernist urban life.

The fight for Haida Gwaii is more than a matter of land.

Troubled by the recent revelation that the government is spying on us? It’s nothing new.

Only four snippets of text remain, part of a lengthier phrase broken up by time and neglect.

First-place winner from the 2014 Quebec Writing Competition.