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We’re starting a book club. A controversial one. Introducing The Banned Book Club at Drom — a new monthly gathering dedicated to reading, discussing, and occasionally arguing over books that have been challenged, censored, or pushed to the margins. Because the books people try to suppress are often the ones

Time is one of those things we pretend to understand. We measure it, document it, chase it, and occasionally try to outrun it altogether. But more often than not, it slips sideways—appearing in fragments, memories, quiet routines, and the strange awareness that the present is always already becoming the

New on Dromline: The (Belated) Valentine’s Issue This issue arrives fashionably late — which feels appropriate. Love, after all, rarely keeps to schedule. It festers, detours, disguises itself as memory, longing, proximity, spectacle. What begins as devotion can curdle into critique; what feels intimate can stretch across power structures, political

The Gospel of Drom — The Holiday Religions Issue In our special year-end ‘Religions’ issue, we cap off 2025 by revisiting the nondenominational ghosts past, present, and future — the Holy Spirits, if you will, of this holiday spirit. Join us as we skirt the lines between sacred and irreverent, as we

Five columnists, five silhouettes at the edge of the page — writing without bylines, without identities, without the usual permissions.Their work only stands on what it says. Nothing more. This week, The Fifth Column returns with five new dispatches. In “The Weeds,” a bartender recounts a night where the heat,

New on Dromline: The Halloween Issue This issue walks the line between memory and nightmare — a collection of pieces that peer into the dark corners of art, politics, and the human mind. In “When Your Favourite Author is Dead to You,” Vikram Nijhawan confronts the death of idols and the

The five columnists return with a new set of dispatches — five distinct frequencies in a world that keeps trying to tune itself too perfectly. Together, they write of machines and myths, of distance and decay, of what remains human in the spaces between signals. This week, we publish their next

New on Dromline: Issue Two Our second issue is live, and it’s a mix of tenderness, sharp critique, and urgent reflection. From Toronto subway encounters to the tyranny of fall, from deepfakes to the decay of democracy, this issue asks: what does it mean to search for truth, beauty,

The Fifth Column Begins Dromline is proud to unveil The Fifth Column—a new space for five anonymous columnists to write freely, without bylines or identities. Each column will stand on its own: sometimes sharp, sometimes strange, sometimes unsettling. Together, they form a chorus of perspectives on art, culture, politics,

Friends, Torontonians, countrypeople, We present to you the inaugural issue of Dromline, a community-rooted magazine that aims to capture local rhythms on their way to becoming global currents. Hatched by a team of iconoclasts out of the bohemian haunt of Queen West’s Drom Taberna, we wanted to dispel mainstream