Readings

Cultural Currency: What Our Money Says About Us

Given the environmental compromises required for Canada's evolution into an energy giant, it's no great surprise that the government may want to downplay our bucolic past on our legal tender.

32 Things We Need Words For in 2015

In response to Time magazine's poll, "Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015" (which suggests we ban "feminist"), a list of the opposite.

Stumbling Towards the Mainstream: On Azealia Banks' Broke With Expensive Taste

Banks' long-delayed debut album arrived with a shrug, but this is less evidence of an artist failing to live up to her potential than of the still-crushing vagaries of the record industry.

Three Guns

The ones that scare us, the ones that take things away from us, and the ones that make us feel in control.

Why Don't We Ever Land on Good Comets?

All the great celestial bodies in the universe to choose from, and we go and park ourselves on icy old 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

How Can I Grow My Eyebrows Out Without Looking Like A Monster?

On fixing beauty mistakes, cutting out old friends, juggling your workload, and deciding where you and your very stubborn partner should live.

A House Of Many Mansions, A Nation Of No Lessons

Witch trials, whispers of genocide, and colonialism's real legacy—our final dispatch from the Central African Republic.

'It's Okay to Sound Stupid. It's Not Okay to Sound Mean': An Interview with Carey Mercer

The beloved leader of Frog Eyes discusses his first book, Clouds of Evil.

The Ghomeshi Paradox

By attempting to discredit his victims, Ghomeshi lost his own credibility. This time, the public listened to the survivors; will they continue to?

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'We're All Surrealists Now': An Interview with Will Self

During a visit to his London home, the author and noted perambulator talks about his new novel, the pathologies and addictions of late capitalism, and his present “end-of-days consciousness.”