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.

The second-place winner from the 2014 Quebec Writing Competition.

Translated by Melissa Bull.

Part one of two.

Winter Reads: Sweet Lechery; The Evening Chorus; First Year Healthy; For Your Safety, Please Hold On; One Hundred Days of Rain.

Twenty-five years after the Montreal Massacre, there is still much work to be done to stop violence against women in Canada.

Winter Listens: Death from Above 1979, TV On The Radio, Neil Young, Taylor Swift, Azealia Banks, Stars, Meligrove Band, Parkay Quarts and Absolutely Free.

Now more than ever, people are recovering from life-threatening illnesses. But survival is never simple.

The field of gender studies was created by women for women, but now, men are carving out a place for themselves in the field. Not everyone is embracing the change.

The Montreal writer Carol Dunlop and the Argentinian novelist Julio Cortázar carried out one of the greatest literary love affairs of the twentieth century. But their romance was shadowed by tragedy.

After years of burying her Trinidadian accent, the author reawakens to the richness of her native tongue.

An interview with Brecken Hancock about her new collection, Broom Broom.

Why is a younger generation flocking to an old hobby?

The role of the body in Christian worship has historically inhabited an ambiguous space between sacred and sinful.

Nineteen months after Pauline Marois led the Parti Québécois to victory, she dragged it to defeat. How will history remember the province’s Iron Lady?

There is pure pleasure in sound free of meaning.

A photoessay.

Translated by Melissa Bull.

In Station Eleven, a troupe of actors and musicians traverse a dystopian wasteland and search for meaning in their art.

Fall Listens: the Rural Alberta Advantage, Valery Gore, TOPS, Lowell, Sloan, Alvvays, Spoon, Bahamas, PS I Love You.

Canadian dairy is one of the most formidable forces in Ottawa. How did our lactose overlords get so powerful?

The moral debate over gambling in small-town Ontario.

The life expectancy in Canada's newest territory is a decade lower than the rest of the country, and those most essential to providing front-line health care are in short supply.

The poetry of a land left behind.

A growing number of indigenous people in Canada are experimenting with traditional diets, and the trend is about more than just health.

Have sex and intimacy become uneasy bedfellows? Undressing modern romance.

When World War II threatened a remote chain of islands off the Alaskan coast, the indigenous Aleut people were displaced from their homes.

Canadian society celebrates diversity, but only when it's convenient. On the country's complicated relationship with blackness.

I would take that quarter-mile jag and own it, spectrally.

An excerpt from The Orange Trees of Baghdad.

The first-place story from Maisonneuve's 2014 Genre Fiction Contest. This year's theme was mystery.