He laid out every root cause and exposed every broke-ass dream that might spirit us away. There was no continuum, no sliding scale of happiness, just confusions that needed untangling.

If there's stuff in there you want, grab it. I'm gonna literally burn everything.

The General and author on living with PTSD, normalizing mental illness and the Don Quixote bent to his life. 

Friends I trust, who have their lives more figured out than I do, swear by camping. It nagged at me like all unattempted things in adult life: can I actually do this?

The author of The Candidate on pissing off the CBC, the future of the NDP and whether he'd run for election again. 

It is an intimate coupling of female narrative in imperfect lines, a female mastery of storytelling through textile.