SOCIAL SCIENCE
Hard To Do
From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution.
Whatever the underlying motives – be they love, financial security, or mere masochism – the ...
Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract
A cultural planner's immodest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change the world.
We live in an ‘adultitarian’ state, where the rules are based on very adult priori- ties ...
Curry
No two curries are the same. This Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do.
Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp ...
Any Other Way
Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals ...
The Last Word
A lively examination of why the modern eulogy should rest in peace.
Finding the right words to reckon with a loved one’s death is no easy task, and the pressure to grieve in a timely fashion only makes ...
Closer
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We think of the modern woman ...
Subdivided
How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?
Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global ...
You Only Live Twice
YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive.
The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every ...
Men of Action
After his father, Saul, undergoes brain surgery and slips into a coma, Howard Akler begins to reflect on Saul's life, the complicated texture of consciousness, and Akler's struggles with writing and his ...
Bright Eyed
For forty years, RM Vaughan has been fighting, and failing, to get his forty winks each night. He's not alone, not by any stretch.
More and more studies highlight the health risks of undersleeping, yet ...