On the morning of Monday, June 22nd, 2026, a twenty-five-year-old philosophy student from Lethbridge, Alberta, checked into the Hilton Garden Inn in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood of Montreal, put a rifle through an upper-floor window, and opened fire on the building across the street. He was...

Pagliaccio the clown walks into a patisserie. Behind the marble stands the owner, a man with cold hands and a folded white life, who looks up from his wiping and says we’re closed; and Pagliaccio, who has never in his life heard a closed thing, says: she had a smell. You have to start at the...

Three animals came to the river, each told to cross. None knew who had told them. The instruction had no face, so none of them argued with it. On the far shore was the thing each of them wanted, though none could have said what it was, only that it was over there and not here, and that the river...

The peas were not, as a matter of historical correction, his first love. That distinction belonged to fuchsias, which he had grown in the window of his childhood bedroom in Hynčice and which, owing to some defect of soil or devotion, produced a single white bloom among the expected purples in the...

The scale of the cheating crisis in higher education is staggering. Depending on the survey, between 60% and 92% of college students now regularly use AI for their coursework. Professors are ill-equipped, and administrators are broadly turning a blind eye to the entire situation. Treating this as...