Culture

National Novel Writing Month champions whirlwind creative output

Shannon Stewart addresses the Pickton murders through poetry

Marc Bell’s Illusztraijuns refutes comic conventions

New book reveals Larry Chin’s thrilling infiltration of the CIA

Biopic captures the melancholy beauty of a punk rock icon

The calculated rise and fall of the Germs’ Darby Crash

Emily Clare explores her mixed ethnicity

Latest Deepa Mehta film presents the cultural imagination as a coping mechanism for abuse

Jason Karmody savours urban sprawl at Namur metro

Three photographers’ nostalgia for Montreal’s red-light district

Deconstructing fame through collage at Mile End gallery

Schwartz’s is the holy grail of Montreal’s sandwich circuit

Inkwell

Provocative pet shop questions the relationship between man and meat

Making the most of the meat you eat