Carlyn Zwarenstein is a writer and journalist based in Toronto. Her second book On Opium was just published by Goose Lane Editions. I speak with her about her push within that work to question narratives around whose lives are "enabled" and "destroyed" by opioids, and about how, for her, drug use became a tool for writing ...

In an act of sonic solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters Christina Hazboun invited artists from different walks of life to contribute a song from their own works or a piece of their choice to dedicate to the Palestinian struggle for justice and independence.

The aural gifts are accompanied by heart-warming messages of solidarity from Walid Ben Salim of N3rdistan (Morocco), Alsarah ...