Essays

Letter of Recommendation, New York Times Magazine | On Catholicism, table manners, and dunking your food in drinks. 

A Grief Like This, Hazlitt | To be newly pregnant is to feel uniquely unsafe. 

More Than Words, Maisonneuve | On losing a mother tongue.

An Ugly, Sweet Thing, Maisonneuve | On abandoning the desire to make a perfect cake.

Berry Season, Hazlitt | The bush pricked everyone’s fingers and provided handfuls of blush-red fruit for the price, if you were willing to pay it. Every summer I lived in that house I was glad to. 

Analysis

Breastfeeding may be free, but it’s still a luxury, Today’s Parent | 

I Hear She’s a Real Bitch: Review, The Globe and Mail | On restaurateur Jen Agg’s new memoir.

Want to Avoid Cultural Appropriation Controversies? Build Better Newsrooms, TVO | 

The Infant Formula Crisis Reveals How Urgently the Industry Needs a Rethink, The Globe and Mail |

Reporting

Want to Raise a Kid In Canada? That’ll be $293,000, The Walrus | If its current generation doesn’t see a future where they can house, feed, or care for the next one, it’s in trouble—on an economic and existential level.

When Canadian Jazz Was Good, Maisonneuve | Nelson Symonds is a guitar legend few can name now. In his day, though, he earned the admiration of Davis, Coltrane and King.

The Evolution of Porn Studies, University Affairs | As porn has proliferated in the digital era, so too has its study—though it’s often been muddied by a binary pro- or anti-porn attitude.

Is The Future of Ontario’s Deaf Schooling in Danger? TVO | Once providers of a robust program for deaf children, some of the province’s specialized schools now face possible extinction.