Shereen Lee

Jun 12, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Rachel Gerry |Jason Kirk |Shereen Lee

“John has a theory that everyone is either a squid or an eel,” writes Elisa Gabbert in the final essay of Any Person Is the Only Self (FSG Originals). Baby squids are born entirely formed, “teeny versions of their later selves,” while eels, on the other hand, go through radical changes, and are hardly recognizable from their beginnings. “In part to test my squidness,” Gabbert takes up rereading the novels of her youth—Updike, Salinger, the works. Satisfyingly, most of them hold up—more or less.

Apr 10, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Shereen Lee |Jason Kirk |Naomi Skwarna

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House) is the culmination of six years of dreaming for poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib. The book has followed him in draft form through a MacArthur Fellowship, the releases of three other award-winning titles, the hosting of two podcasts, creating over a hundred Spotify playlists, and through the paradigm shift that the pandemic brought to the world’s doorstep.

Mar 20, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Naomi Skwarna |Jason Kirk |Shereen Lee

The first time I read Colin Barrett, I had the sensation that my nervous system was being vigorously flossed. I still remember the inciting passage, from the 2016 story “Anhedonia, Here I Come”:He stopped at a McDonald’s drive-through, inhaled three one-euro hamburgers and a fries and a Coke, and took a spumous dump in a toilet cubicle bathed in the purple-blue glow of UV lighting installed to prevent junkies from finding the veins in their arms.

Feb 26, 2024 | cottagelife.com | Shereen Lee

The 2024 Canadian Electrical Code (CEC) will be issued on March 1, bringing with it sustainability-related specifications that will change how builders make upgrades. While the Code itself still needs to be adopted into law by individual provinces—usually with some modifications and special conditions—a version of these regulations will come into effect across the country soon.

Jan 10, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Niigaan Sinclair |Rachel Gerry |Shereen Lee

Miss Chief Eagle Testickle is an enigma. How else might someone describe a 35-billion-year-old time-travelling artist, performer, and storyteller who reimagines, reinvents, and remakes history, art, gender, sexuality, and politics at the same time? She is also the alternate identity of artist Kent Monkman, who paints and performs the sexy and transformational Cree provocateur live and on film in galleries and spaces throughout Turtle Island, or North America.