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Fighting to Live: Vancouver’s Battle for Safe Injection Sites
Eleanor J. Bader talks to Travis Lupick, author of "Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction."
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
The Truest Testament: On the Life and Art of Yuri Felsen
Bryan Karetnyk tells the tragic tale of Yuri Felsen, a Russian émigré author whose English-language debut is long overdue.
A Voice from the Caucasus: On Alisa Ganieva’s “Bride and Groom”
Yelena Furman reads “Bride and Groom,” a novel by the Dagestani author Alisa Ganieva, translated from the Russian by Carol Apollonio.
Mirth and Melancholy: The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
A newly translated compendium of Machado de Assis’s short fiction proves him to be an undisputed master of the form.
“Writing the Unwritten”: The Poetry of Tom Pickard
Alex Niven reviews Tom Pickard’s “Fiends Fell.”
Pilot’s Eye View: Sam Kleiner’s “The Flying Tigers”
Nicholas Utzig reviews “The Flying Tigers,” a historical work by Sam Kleiner.
Unpacking Murad Osmann’s #FollowMeTo Instagram Travel Series
As Instagram becomes more and more prominent as a form of aspirational self-advertising, we must take seriously its images as cultural objects.
The Wee Gunmen of Glasgow: On Crime as Industry in Malcolm Mackay’s Tartan Noir
On crime as industry in the works of Malcolm Mackay.
“The Way Life Happens”: On Laura Esther Wolfson’s “For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors”
Lynne Sharon Schwartz praises “For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors,” a collection of personal essays by Laura Esther Wolfson.
Careers of Evil: On the Migration of a Three-Word Phrase from Lautréamont to J. K. Rowling, with Stops at Patti Smith and the Blue Öyster Cult
Howard Rodman on the origins of the phrase “career of evil,” with stops at Patti Smith and the Blue Öyster Cult.
A Mood of Revolt
A rock star of the 1968 student protests in Paris sees a similar movement emerging, 50 years later.
Prisoners of a Vision: Dissidents in Sisi’s Egypt
The ongoing struggle against a US-backed dictatorship.
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