NEWS

The president’s odyssey: navigating the future of education

Leanne Rambali August 30, 2026

Interim president William Robins shares his vision for Vic’s next great chapter and the personal journey that shaped his leadership The 2026-27 academic year marks …

The smoke that drifts from Polyphemus

Mikhala Jane Enns August 30, 2026

Ontario wildfires and forms of resistance to Bill 5 This July, Torontonians woke up to a dystopian view outside of their apartment windows; orange, hazy ...

The UK’s continuing odyssey of political chaos

Harman Banga August 30, 2026

Seven prime ministers in ten years explained through economics

Wastelands of American interventionism

Haniya Siddiqui April 24, 2026

The consequences of forcing regime change

EDITORIAL

Sucking the marrow of life

Amy Yang August 30, 2026

“These forgetful spirits hope for resurrection / into bodies. They start to want to see the sky.” – The Aeneid, Vergil, trans. Shadi Bartsch It …

Don’t waste your assets

Sofija Stankovic April 24, 2026

Final remarks

Artefacts of absence

Sofija Stankovic March 30, 2026

Zagreb’s museum of broken relationships

Death and Devotion

Sofija Stankovic March 30, 2026

“And to not know what the next moment will bring… brings you closer to a perception of death. You see, that’s why I think that ...

OPINIONS

HELP! I’m a robo-zombie

Sarah Shah August 30, 2026

EAT. MORE. PHONE. It was a dimly lit street lined with cobblestones and bustling with handsome, linen-clad men. As they usually are in Europe. “Let’s …

Did you want me for my looks, or my voice?

Olena Zsoldos August 30, 2026

Marginalized people have a unique perspective primed for storytelling. Why are they still accessories for the ones white people already tell? What do we want ...

We cannot return to Ithaca

Atlas Changulani August 30, 2026

Homer’s Odyssey/and the quest for ‘normal’ at the end of the world In case you haven’t noticed, the /Odyssey/ has been rather prominent in the ...

On Losing the God Complex

Victoria Dubrovsky April 24, 2026

And then, forgetting it for good

FEATURES

Avant tout, soyons canadiens

Julia McCarthy August 30, 2026

The odyssey of the Franco-Canadian identity Over the course of the past month I spent overseas, and especially upon returning home to my small Canadian …

Will guilt ridden men always save the day?

Kalyna Monago Yarosh August 30, 2026

The Odyssey + Oppenheimer: a comparison What do two of Christopher Nolan’s most recent films, The Odyssey and Oppenheimer, have in common? Aside from Nolan’s ...

Neoliberal Academia: The Death of Morality at UofT

Karim Arif April 24, 2026

Neoliberal academia has quietly yet increasingly undermined UofT’s moral principles

Lenses of identity

Adelaine Aniag March 30, 2026

Exploring cameras as artefacts of memory and self

ARTS AND CULTURE

Epic poem or epic fail?

Emma Braho August 30, 2026

Does reading the text of Homer’s epic really help us Ody-See more clearly? Sing to me muse, of a buy-one-get-one-free hardcover book deal. Bookstore sales …

Did The Odyssey really need to happen?

Natasha Uzdensky August 30, 2026

The value of sequels today and in BCE

Nolan’s odyssey: a trojan horse of epic proportions

Roya Alisultanova August 30, 2026

Why the film adaptation’s “real-world” approach is an epic failure

Clashing formats

Jubran Mansour August 30, 2026

The failures of the Hadestown proshot

SCIENCE

On the odysseys across the Serengeti

Maryam Al-Qaisy August 30, 2026

A story of survival for Thomson’s gazelles Across the savannah, animals seasonally engage in a long migration journey across the 30 000 km stretch of …

Tripping into a psychedelic state of mind

Mashiyat Ahmed August 30, 2026

A new Royal Ontario Museum exhibition unites diverse perspectives on the scientific and cultural odyssey of psychedelics My curiosity with magic mushrooms and the ‘psychedelic ...

A home on fire

Shivantika Shegar August 30, 2026

You could say Homer’s The Odyssey is a story of human might; of conjuring the will to brave the most monstrous of obstacles, the most ...

Lunchbox for the apocalypse

Shivantika Shegar April 24, 2026

Picture this: the world, in all of its peculiar glory, decides to end tomorrow. Imagine that this sudden apocalypse came with the token doomsday tragedies—barren, ...

POETRY

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