31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 21: “The Qilin” by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki; Bryan Karetnyk, trans.
Unlike much of Tanizaki's fiction, "The Qilin" does not take place in Japan, but in China.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 20: “Schalken the Painter” by Sheridan Le Fanu
The story anticipates Stoker's novel and an entire library of supernatural fiction that follows it.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 19: Stories by Helen Garner
This is perhaps Garner's secret weapon as a fiction writer: her resolute refusal to explain.
Dying for a job: In his latest novella, writer Nicholas Binge offers a dark, Lovecraft-inflected vision of late capitalism
What begins mildly enough takes a sharp turn toward cosmic horror about a third of the way through.
“We need our prize back”: Canadian poets feel buoyed by the reinstatement of the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize
"The opportunity that a prize like this provides is not the opportunity to compete. It is the opportunity to be seen."
Historian Christopher Clark resurfaces a little-known clerical sex scandal that has resonance for today’s culture
Clark stumbled across the documents relating to the scandal some three decades ago.
Reality crash: Journalist Megan Garber’s Screen People examines the ways we are watched and manipulated in a digital media saturated environment
The line between American politics and entertainment has long been blurry and malleable.
In his new long essay, Globe and Mail reporter Tyler Dawson examines the possibility and perils of Alberta separation
Dawson seems fairly sanguine about the slim chances Alberta secession has.
“Egotistical adults with no boundaries”: Rick Westhead investigates the corrosion affecting junior hockey in Canada
Westhead has done an invaluable service by shedding light on the ugly underbelly of a system that starts scooping up boys as young as five or six.
“They’re coming for you”: Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Kraus dissects – in minute detail – the film that made a huge impact on him as a writer and viewer
Kraus provides such a deep dive that even people who have seen the film multiple times will find something new to discover in his text.