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Who Do They Think They Are?

When extraordinary writers prove fallible

To Save a Planet

Between despair and disaster

Campfire Confessional

Crushes, counsellors, and s’more

Jack Wang

Jack Wang is the author of The Riveter, one of The New Yorker’s best books of 2025.

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Unaccompanied Minors

A different kind of immigration story July | August 2026
Two months before giving birth to her son, Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho saw a therapist for the first time, hoping for reassurance that she’d make a good mother. “I’m here for you to tell me how normal I am,” she said, only half jokingly. However, by degrees, she admitted to an unusual childhood: her family came to Canada when she was…