New music from Grimes, The Beverleys, Joanna Newsom and more.

New books from Tom Slee, Michael DeForge, Kris Bertin and more.

An excerpt from “Des paillettes aux revendications: quelques bribes du possible ‘renouveau féministe’” (Nouveau Projet, 07). By Aurélie Lanctôt, translated by Melissa Bull.

Photographs by Angela Gzowski.

Be happy, be productive, be your best self: everybody has a version of the bathroom mirror mantra that defines the good life. Scaachi Koul and Naomi Skwarna on the tyranny of a life well lived.

Kate Sloan on how a call for scientific conclusions about female ejaculation is drowning in a wave of pleasure.

For most patients, morcellation means less-invasive surgery. For others, it can be a death sentence. Alison Motluk investigates why two former Harvard doctors are trying to ban a procedure that left one of them riddled with cancer.

Prejudice often hides behind a secular mask. Fariha Roísín on the silencing of Muslim feminists.

The night I moved into my apartment, I heard my roommates planning to cleanse the house of evil spirits.

Sylvie Rancourt’s memoir from her time as a stripper was censored and seized when it came out in the 1980s. Shannon Tien on a long-deserved English translation of Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer.

After the third dollar store pregnancy test, I asked Miranda what I should do about it.

Canada’s new prostitution act is supposed to keep workers safe, but many in the profession say it puts them in danger. As Arielle Piat-Sauvé reports, the fight to sell sex safely is far from over.

New poetry by Derek Webster.

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.