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The Superpower Next Door

Bully for you — but at what cost?

Love’s Remains

Canada’s poets have left a rich epistolary trail

How the West Was One

Tim Cook’s story of Allied cooperation

Irina Kovalyova

Irina Kovalyova teaches molecular biology and biochemistry at Simon Fraser University. Her debut collection of short stories, Specimen, won the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the literary fiction category.

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Everything is Illuminated

Our fascination with bioluminescence May 2018
If you have ever visited a big-city aquarium, you may have marvelled at the luminescent jellyfish undulating in their blue-lit tanks like dreamlike cupcakes. Or perhaps you moved quickly to see more exciting creatures. Like, say, stingrays. Or sharks. Or anacondas. That would be a pity. Because you would have missed a chance to be enlightened