Letter from Montreal: Under the Paifang
Fragments of my parents’ past are strewn all over Montreal's Chinatown.
In This Issue
The Third Solitude
Searching through fact and fiction to confront anti-Semitism in Quebec.
The Mountain Carver
Sculpture has always been a controversial art form in Iran, but that is where Parviz Tanavoli has found his greatest inspiration.
Out of the Pit
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.
The Home Front
For veterans and their families, life with PTSD is a battlefield. One woman has taken the fight to Parliament Hill.
Walt
There is a ferret in my freezer.
Reduce, Reuse, RIP
With Canada entering the Golden Age of Death, green burial options are going mainstream.
October Boy
Mathieu Denis’ Corbo is an accomplished work about the FLQ that eschews stereotypical sixties aesthetics.
Out Of Our Hands
When the law fails women, they find their own ways to deal with perpetrators of sexual assault.
The Maidan (Subscription Required)
Photographs from the "Revolution of Dignity."
The Wild Wind in the Space of the Word (Subscription Required)
Confessions of the Middle-Class Child (Subscription Required)
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).
Rite of Place (Subscription Required)
Albert Shin's new film is the future of Canadian cinema.
A Fish in the Percolator (Subscription Required)
On Andy Burns’ fan-pleaser Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks.
The Book Room: Spring 2015 (Subscription Required)
Spring Reads from Emily Urquhart, Kara Stanley, Jillian Tamaki, Heather O'Neill and Pearl Pirie.
The Music Room: Spring 2015 (Subscription Required)
Spring listens from BadBadNotGood and Ghostface Killah; Two Gallants; Cancer Bats; THEESatisfaction; Dan Deacon; Of Montreal; Young Guv; Drake and Harrison.
