31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 27: “Bride” by Julia Elliott
Elliott's story does not contain explicit references to The Name of the Rose but its subject and approach lend itself to the interpretation.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 25: “Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions” by Ji Hong Sayo
Sayo's chosen mode is satire, here doing double duty, parodying both Game of Thrones–style high fantasy and Martha Stewart–type rules for entertaining.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 24: “Big Cat” by Louise Erdrich
Erdrich situates one fracture in her central characters' relationship in the wife's snoring.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 23: “What We Do When No One Is Watching” by Dania Idriss
While the civil war does not play a central role in Idriss's story, it is constantly hovering in the background.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 22: “Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar
Both Tabitha's and Amira's stories are situated in the realm of fantasy and fairy tale.
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.
“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.