On our cover, Agathe Bray-Bourret and art director Nancy Pavan illustrate how Montreal’s pools carve out space for exercise, relaxation and beating the heat, for a feature on the history of the city's aquatic centres by Eve Cable.

Lital Khaikin reports on how the history of Montréal-Est is intertwined with heavy industry, and so are the plans for its revitalization.

Vanessa Chiasson argues that there’s more than one way to read Montgomery’s literary heroine, Anne, from feminist trailblazer to conservative tradwife.

Laura Moncion writes that the life of a seventeenth-century religious recluse in current-day Montreal demonstrates how solitude doesn't have to mean isolation. 

Ian Roy contemplates how the question of where one is from doesn't have a straightforward answer. 

Boshko Maric reviews an art installation where a deluxe bedroom is built in an abandoned factory as an ironic response to Montreal's housing crisis. 

Plus fiction by David Huebert and Sylveline Bourion, poetry by Manahil Bandukwala and Amanda Merritt, a comic by Cole Degenstein, and much more.