Ultra-bleak poetry for springtime
A new issue of Vallum magazine and A.F. Moritz’s Art of Surgery launch this weekend.
A kids’ book about the dark underbelly of fashion
We spoke to author Serah-Marie McMahon about Killer Style and the legacy of her magazine WORN.
Lighting up the night
At We Are The Lightthe underrepresented become the presented, and the presenters.
Elon Musk is going to hate this
In which local “professional piss-taker” Joe Bagel claps back at Elon Musk in iambic pentameter.
The future is female
Adapted from her wildly popular Instagram comic of the same name, Aminder Dhaliwal’s Woman World posits an extraordinarily funny post-apocalyptic future where men don’t exist anymore.
Get Lit
Stand #753 at the Salon du Livre de Montréal is your go-to place for English-language literature.
Anne T. Donahue actually cares very much (and stans Guy Fieri)
Writer and prominent internetter Anne T. Donahue’s debut essay collection, like the author herself, is bracingly honest, often hilarious and generally compelling.
Heather O’Neill presented the 2018 Giller Prize longlist in various Montreal metro stations
Right around the time the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist was being officially revealed, Heather O’Neill was unofficially revealing it in a way more colourful way.
A Bubble will make you want to hold on to your loved ones
We spoke to the husband of late cartoonist Geneviève Castrée about the children’s book she didn’t quite finish.
How MIDI shaped the way music sounds today
Mad Skills, a book by Montreal music journalist Ryan Diduck, recounts the creation and continuing influence of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface.