Let us not begin at the beginning, nor even at the archive,  Derrida says. As when I had a child after miscarrying, I began to see my father everywhe...

Twenty minutes away from this house is a house without rooms and cabinets and foal-dark carpeting and a womanwho wears my mother’s face to clean the dishes and the linoleum floors and the delicate whi...

Massive, destructive wildfires have become the new normal in North America, North Africa and Europe, but climate change denial persists.

An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

The final collection from one of contemporary poetry’s essential voices.

AI researchers, Ivy League professors, and at least one winner of the MacArthur “genius” grant will move to Canada from the U.S. with funds from the federal government’s research chair program.

Twenty minutes away from this house is a house without rooms and cabinets and foal-dark carpeting and a womanwho wears my mother’s face to clean the dishes and the linoleum floors and the delicate whi...

Twenty minutes away from this house is a house without rooms and cabinets and foal-dark carpeting and a womanwho wears my mother’s face to clean the dishes and the linoleum floors and the delicate whi...

Sometimes, love comes in a parcel of rice straws

This year, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of American independence. This 4th of July will be a bombastic celebration of an independence that came at an

Our history has always been contraband. Take a break from the bizarre and depressing spectacle of the Donald Trump-led celebrations of the 250th year of the U.S. state to learn about the real his...

No lights on, my Baba sits in her livingroom, telling me about the endof the world. I am alonethere. My father dropped me offtwo hours from home when he went awayto work. July, merciless in the hea…

I don’t want to be at peace. Outside, the buffalograss rails at the houses. Terracotta storms the bougainvillea. Each street in any direction is directionless. I’m beginning

Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…