Columnists
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August 05, 2022Book Therapy: Help! I’m Alive
By Stacey May Fowles“Usually the isolation is a result of some life trauma. Does your brother have trauma?”“Fuck, I don’t know. Who doesn’t have trauma?”—Gurjinder Basran, Help! I’m Alive Lately I can’t ...
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June 15, 2022Book Therapy: Mad Honey
By Stacey May Fowles“No, no. I’m telling you, it feels like I was bees. A whole bee colony. Like all I did this summer was drink nectar, collect pollen, nurse the larvae, fan the hive, take care of my queen—I was bees.”— Katie ...
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April 29, 2022Book Therapy: Good Mom on Paper
By Stacey May Fowles & Jen Sookfong Lee“Children require their parents to search for small moments of peace or grace or dignity. Maybe we can treat creativity the same way: creating the one true thing within a project that is otherwise just ...
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March 09, 2022Book Therapy: Sunny Days Inside
By Stacey May Fowles“Is it safe?” “It’s safe now but when won’t it be safe?” “It’s not actually bad here.” “It’s not bad there either.” “What about the money.” “But what about the kids? They’ll ...
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February 03, 2022Book Therapy: The Music Game
By Stacey May Fowles“I was a human being, and human beings needed to say goodbye, to get together, to cry in the same room.”—Stéfanie Clermont, The Music GameThis deep into the seemingly never ending story that is ...
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December 20, 2021Book Therapy: Favourites from my favourites
By Stacey May FowlesEvery year, in the back of my agenda, I keep a simple running list of the books I’ve read. More than anything, it’s a handy way to remember what exactly I consumed and when, but it also offers a useful ...
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November 23, 2021Book Therapy: Good Burdens
By Stacey May Fowles“You may feel like you’re behind the rest of the world because you haven’t accomplished your to-do list or gotten to inbox zero or have your side hustle rocking like your neighbour next door. (Newsflash, ...
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October 26, 2021Book Therapy: Special Topics in Being a Human
By Stacey May Fowles“Keep working to improve but also honour your fuckups as opportunities to understand where you went wrong and try again—that’s how we keep going, Brave Corespondent. That’s how we keep living.”—S. ...
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October 06, 2021Book Therapy: The Light Streamed Beneath It
By Stacey May Fowles“I soon learned that therapy is not like slowly cleaning out a closet; it is not a process of quickly sorting and pitching everything over the course of a rainy afternoon…It is a week-by-week process ...
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July 22, 2021Book Therapy: The Philosophy of Gardening
By Stacey May Fowles“He continued gardening at his desk. Not in the form of borders and beds, but in the form of paragraphs and pages. Row by row, he enjoyed the image of the writer being like a gardener.”—Elke Von ...