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I remember Princess Diana’s death vividly. My husband and I were at a tiny cottage on Lake Muskoka 25 years ago on August 31, 1997, when his phone rang with his sister calling to say the Princess of Wales had been in a car crash. I was already in bed, but something about the tone […]

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I can’t quite describe the feeling that welled up inside me while watching Lizzo bring a star-studded crowd to their feet at the MTV Movie & TV Awards in June. It was like a fizzy mixture of joy, pride, admiration and valid­ation that left me teary-eyed and smiling for days. Finally, I’m starting to see […]

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Every month has a mood, a feeling, some combination of memories, moments and nostalgia. You know it—you feel it—even if you’ve never really thought about it. To help encapsulate the moods of the months, we’re asking novelists to take on the calendar and evoke the feelings of each season through fiction, memoir or some mix of […]

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It would be easy to assume that Vivek Shraya doesn’t feel altogether at home in a traditionally conservative place like Calgary. She isn’t the only trans woman in this city of over a million, but since she lived in Toronto for more than a decade, the general lack of divers­ity in Alberta could be jarring. […]

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Like the best comedians and therapists, Manhattan-based writer Sloane Crosley possesses the uncanny ability to perfectly articulate your deepest thoughts and ideas better than you ever could. It’s like she coils herself into your brain, extracts some random, indescribable feeling and then spits it out fully formed on paper. To wit: In her latest collection […]

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I was in a spin class with eight other women when I first heard the report of Kim Kardashian West’s hotel robbery in Paris. We all reacted in unison, in the way that rational humans should: We were horrified. There was no discussion on whether or not she “deserved it” or “had it coming.” We […]

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