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.

One of two second-place winners in Maisonneuve's annual Genre Fiction contest. This year's theme was mystery.

One of two second-place stories in Maisonneuve's annual Genre Fiction contest. This year's theme was mystery.

I’d just moved, and newcomer logic dictates that you never say no to anything.

The author on the Russian train ride that inspired his new non-fiction book Where the Bears Roam the Streets.

Part one of two.

The contradiction of innovation.

For Newtown.

Translation by Donald Winkler.

Stephen Harper’s A Great Game chronicled the birth of professional hockey with fanboy enthusiasm. But a closer look reveals a between-the-lines defence of the PM’s policies.

Summer Reads: What I Want to Tell Goes Like This, World of Paper, Burning Daylight and Democracy in Decline.

Summer releases from Owen Pallett, Chromeo, Fucked Up, Reuben and the Dark, The Black Keys, tUnE-yArDs, White Lung and Babe Rainbow.

Actors turn the human instinct for performance into art. Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project explores this unique psychology.

A power line could bring clean energy from Quebec into American homes, but at what cost? A report from the heart of New Hampshire's anti-hydro rebellion.

Remembering Stephen Leacock, Canada's master ironist, one hundred years after the release of Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich.