Selected Journalism
William Rees Knows How to Save the World (Vancouver magazine, March 2025)
What Will Happen to us When we Cede Our Written Language to AI? (Globe & Mail, November 2024)
Sanctuary AI is Betting on Human-Like Machines (The Walrus, November 2024)
Is All Art Really Theft in an Age of AI? (Globe & Mail, June 2024)
Out Lost Connection to Family Recipes (Globe & Mail, May 2024)
A Listening Bar in Tokyo (Montecristo, April 2024)
Quiet is Precious in Our Distracted World (Globe & Mail, February 2024)
A Life’s Measure (Zoomer, April 2022)
The Husband Stays in the Book (Xtra, January 2022)
There’s Something Wrong with Omma (Reader’s Digest, January 2022)
Why I Wrote My Book by Hand (Montecristo, January 2022)
Reimagining The Good Life (Toronto Star, December 2021)
Christmas Must Change, Too (Globe & Mail, December 2021)
The Sons We Tried to be at Cub Camp (Globe & Mail, June, 2021)
All I Need is YouTube (The Walrus, January, 2020)
My Ex Died of AIDS—But That’s Not What Killed Him (Globe & Mail, December, 2018)
I have Forgotten How To Read (Globe & Mail, February 2018)
Why Frankenstein is More Relevant Than Ever (Esquire, January 2018)
How Conjoined Twins are Making Scientists Question the Concept of Self (The Walrus, November, 2017).
The Benefits of Solitude (The Walrus, April 2017)
Geoffrey Farmer (Nuvo magazine, Spring 2017)
The Last of the Daydreamers (Adbusters, April, 2015)
How the Web Became Our External Brain (Wired, August 2014)
Digital Obesity among Children (Globe & Mail, July 25, 2014)
It's Complicated (The Walrus, October, 2014). Gay and evangelical at Trinity Western University.
Rodney Graham (Vancouver magazine, May 2014)
Olympic Pride (The Walrus, March 2014). Why our athletes can't ignore Russia's anti-gay laws.
Hot Wired (The Walrus, October 2013). How online hookups are changing our sex lives.
Bad Blood (The Walrus, December 2012). The politics of gay blood donations.
Profile of Joe Arvay (The Walrus, October 2012). The life work of Canada's greatest interpreter of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Life After Death: HIV 30 Years On (The Walrus September 2011). 30 years after HIV was identified, a new generation grows up in its long shadow.
Rude Awakening (The Walrus, September 2011). Steven Shearer at the Venice Biennale.
Play Mates (The Walrus, May 2011). The struggle and brilliant history of Vancouver's Electric Company.
Zero Patience (Vancouver magazine, May, 2011). Julio Montaner's research has saved millions of lives--why is the government keeping him from saving millions more?
Skip to the Loo (The Walrus, March 2011). Why public toilets matter.
The Unrepentant Whore (The Walrus, June 2010). Why Canada needs brothels.
Still Life (Vancouver magazine, June 2009). A profile of painter Gordon Smith.
The Bing Picture (Vancouver magazine, June 2008). A profile of architect Bing Thom.
King Arthur (Vancouver magazine, September 2006). One of the final profiles of the great architect Arthur Erickson.