Somehow, despite the unrelenting snowfalls in the last few weeks, we’ve made it to what appears to be springtime. As we enter exam season and finish our classes, anticipation for that sweet escape of...

Bombay Bicycle Club and I have a complicated relationship.  I never talk about them being a favourite of mine when in heated discussions about music. In fact, I often forget about them entirely when suggesting...

Poetry Unbound wasn’t the first podcast I listened to, but it certainly was the podcast that inspired a new kind of love in me for the platform.  I was introduced to it through globally adored...

 Loneliness is a complex emotion. It can strike any one of us at any time, even amid our loved ones and even during what might be the best times of our lives. For myself, even...

I’ve always been a yearner. I’ve yearned for a well-paying job, a stable income, an extra in a baker’s dozen box of goodies — but primarily I’ve always yearned for human connection.  For most of...

Obsession with communication and connection to diasporic cinema are concepts U of M scholars Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar explore in their newly published monograph, Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication. Corne and...

After two weeks of winter term, I’ve noticed my classmates, friends and colleagues all expressing a similar malaise regarding this semester.  It seems that, much like myself, people were burned out well before the holiday...