Grief and Devotion on the Three-Point Line: An Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib

The author of There’s Always This Year on basketball, what drags him to the page, and the communal act of fasting.

A Hairsplitter’s Odyssey

Probe all the nuances, niceties, and subtle shades of meaning your little heart desires.

Dark Matter

For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure. 

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Grief and Devotion on the Three-Point Line: An Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib

The author of There’s Always This Year on basketball, what drags him to the page, and the communal act of fasting.

A Hairsplitter’s Odyssey

Probe all the nuances, niceties, and subtle shades of meaning your little heart desires.

The Missing

A User's Guide to Hisham Matar

Dark Matter

For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure. 

Crush on the Cross: An Interview with Anthony Oliveira

The author of Dayspring discusses queerness, Christianity, and the anxious sense that history is over.

The Two Solitudes of Book Design

From spartan cream to splashy blobs, Canada's French and English literary cultures have their own separate visual languages.

Chicken Tender

I learned to ignore the doubt that lapped at my ankles, a wave that rose every time I kissed him goodbye, left town for work or travel, and remembered, with a shock, how happily whole I felt alone.

Beige Foods Forever

They are often stewed foods, sometimes steamed or boiled. They are foods defined by their colours first—in this context, the lack of colour, the overall sameness, somehow gets misread as a fault.

Her Ex Writes a Novel

Fiction is a more subtle and sophisticated revenge porn.

Men at Work

On Martin Scorsese. 

Where Are All These Journalists Going to Get a Sense of Self from Now?

Maybe I like being defined by my work! Did you ever think of THAT???

Illegal Bride

Days after Anna Kashfi wed the actor Marlon Brando, doubts about her purported Indian heritage surfaced, destroying her Hollywood career and branding her a liar. The truth was more complicated than anyone knew.