Does Voting Mean Anything? Who Benefits?

Does Voting Mean Anything? Who Benefits?

Are we devoted to voting because we think it is our responsibility? Or with our hard-won democracy do we feel obligated to sustain it? Yet how is that helping our unstable economies, or addressing the ever-increasing natural disasters? Our daily lives are in one way...

Sally Rooney’s Millennial Voice

Sally Rooney, Ireland’s newest literary sensation, is widely regarded as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love in the era of late capitalism. Born in 1991, Rooney is often called the voice of her generation, the J.D. Salinger of the Snapchat...

Boomerang

If we care enough to know what is happening in our world by following our daily news and examining different sources, we witness, and we learn: Africa is burning; Iraq is shattered; Syria is bleeding; uprisings and oppressions here and there in different parts of our...

The Holy Mango

Zoë S. Roy, author of Calls Across the Pacific, reflects on Mao Zedong, “VIP fruit”, and the power of fiction. One day when I walked past Spadina Avenue in Toronto, piled mangos in yellow and orange on a fruit stand caught my eye. A memory of a sacred...