Tabatha Southey

Feb 27, 2025 | almendron.com | Alice Southey |Tabatha Southey

Since he began his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has made it clear he’d like a side of Canada with that. Nothing about Trump leads us to believe he is aware of the conceit—enshrined in international law, no less—that the post-World War II international order rests on the existence of stable and territorially fixed states. Still less does he believe that maintaining this order is something the United States should have a hand in.

Aug 18, 2024 | almendron.com | Tabatha Southey

Alice Munro looms large over the lives of middle-class women in Canada. Here, good mothers give her short-story collections to their daughters. Wise and knowing aunts leave them behind at the family cottage. Her works are taught to us in schools. The spines of her books are the wallpaper of a certain kind of well-appointed Canadian home—the type with an assortment of mismatched hand-painted mugs, mostly with fish on them, clustered near the sink.

Aug 17, 2024 | foreignpolicy.com | Tabatha Southey

Alice Munro looms large over the lives of middle-class women in Canada. Here, good mothers give her short-story collections to their daughters. Wise and knowing aunts leave them behind at the family cottage. Her works are taught to us in schools. The spines of her books are the wallpaper of a certain kind of well-appointed Canadian home—the type with an assortment of mismatched hand-painted mugs, mostly with fish on them, clustered near the sink.