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A letter to a person or entity unlikely to respond.

The Wonder of the Galaxy from the Comfort of Home!

"If you have to worry about what guitar you need, that's emo. If you don't give a f*ck, then it's punk."

The appearance of the Wishbone Classics adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" in my school library was a watershed moment.

Warding off a VHS revival in advance.

I made you a playlist

They've braided blankets around pillows and scattered slippers like snowdrops across the linoleum.

I had sweated to buy this video game and soon I was going to puke for it, too.

A tv bolted to the ceiling is playing CBC news on mute.

Your shoulder might twinge.

“Well,” I thought, “I guess this is it. Maybe I am finally trapped in an endless loop of Death Cab for Cutie albums and ambient mood playlists that I can never escape.”

I'm hunting for psalms.

Two years into the pandemic and I feel like a soft-shelled creature, creeping the ocean bottom wondering if it’s safe to rise from the depths yet. A goblin shark. An octopus cruising for whelks. The only proofs I have that time is passing are filled notebooks and a government notice warning my identification is nearly expired.

Half of you are deeply curious about whether prestige literary fiction is worth reading, and the other half want to know if the cute-looking books about robots and love after death are worth reading. Here are four tiny reviews to help you decide.

A valentine to a classic 19th century Russian novella, full of carriages and calling cards and penniless minor royalty whining to their much richer neighbours about money problems.

2021 in and around books

2020 in Books