Issue 56.4 collects essays from the Mosaic archive on the topic of suicide. more...

Issue 56.3 collects essays from the Mosaic archive on the topic of suicide. more...

Featuring the art of Anselm Kiefer on the cover, this issue contains essays on Emily Dickinson and Daoism; death and the uncanny in Paul Celan’s later essays; power, responsibility, and the stranger in Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table;… more...

Guest edited by Xiaohui Liang and Claire Chambers, this special issue explores pandemic literature in contemporary English and Chinese fiction. more...

Featuring the art of Mark Rothko, this general issue publishes essays on necrology, the image of stray dogs in war literature, Canadian electronic literature, David Foster Wallace, Arundhati Roy, Xi Xi, affect and tropisms, and Sylvain Tesson. more...

A reprinting of the best writing on photography Mosaic has published, Re-Photography also features the photography and writing of Roy Arden. more...

This is the second of two special issues featuring the proceedings of the online conference Relative Time/Little Time, developed in collaboration with the Dutch artist duo Bik Van der Pol. more...

This is the first of two special issues featuring the proceedings of the online conference Relative Time/Little Time, developed in collaboration with the Dutch artist duo Bik Van der Pol. more...

Featuring the work of Rodney Graham on its cover and a discography by David Wisdom based on conversations with the late artist, Mosaic 54.4 includes essays on Nordic Noir, shame culture, heterotopia, trauma, celebrity, ontological angst, and dystopian… more...

Mosaic issue 54.3 is a special author issue featuring the work of Frédéric Neyrat and including essays by Naomi Mandell, Sue Lovell, Gi Taek Ryoo, and Andrew Haas. Alongside two essays by Neyrat, you will find an interview… more...

Mosaic issue 54.2 is a special archival issue developed as the first part of a collaborative project with the Dutch artist team Bik Van der Pol. Sifting through fifty odd years of old issues and forty times as… more...

Featuring the work of Louise Lawler on its cover, Mosaic 54.1 includes essays on Dylan Thomas; Man Ray and Robert Desnos’s L’Étoile de mer; the figure of the mother as social activist in Muriel Rukeyser and Maxo Vanka;… more...

Mosaic 53.4 is a special issue on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Forty years after its publication, the book still garners attention. Responses to this short, elegant, and personal text range wildly from irrelevance, anger, and… more...

This general issue features essays by Phillip E. Wegner, whose argument for “fixing the intolerable present” turns on science fiction, and specifically the film adaptation of Uncanny X-Men (1980), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014); Jill Marsden, who… more...

This special issue, guest edited by Nicole Anderson and H. Peter Steeves, brings together eleven essays and an introduction that examine “the many resonances at work in the notion of a ‘political animal’” (Anderson and Steeves 2). more...

This general issue features the winner and runner-up of the Mosaic Emerging Scholar Essay Prize, as well as essays on Elizabeth Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses,” biophilia and the poetry of Thomas Lux, domestic help in contemporary French fiction,… more...

This general issue features essays on rhetoric and resistance, language and translation, tolerance, Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being, resilience, relationality, Rancière and Derrida’s textual relationship, and two essays on Hamlet—one which explores Hamlet in relation… more...

This general issue features essays on the diurnal course of the lyric, hallucinogenic regression, landscape gardening, African speculative fiction, theories of reading, Canada’s Parliament buildings, and the Japanese Canadian experience. more...

Opening with a photo-essay by Ibon Aranberri and two essays on the topic of “decolonizing water,” this issue also addresses topics including nineteenth-century glacial theory, Dracula and imperialism, psychoanalysis and Wuthering Heights, time travel in Moorcocks’s Behold the… more...

This issue includes essays on a variety of topics, including gothic tropics in Grace Metalious’s Peyton Place, Barthes as phenomenologist, animal ventriloquism in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, and situational irony. The cover features the work of Dutch artist Esther… more...