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Sonnet

Things detached from names can be seen, witnessed, / but naming things sates the hunger God’s absence leaves

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Second Genesis: When a Tribute Band Transcends the Original

The Musical Box isn’t Genesis, but they’ve averaged about fifty shows annually and toured Europe. Is what they do art?

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Do We Really Need a Taylor Swift Reporter?

Outlets like USA Today are hiring beat reporters to write exclusively about Swift and Beyoncé. But investing in this kind of journalism distracts from stories people actually need

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Point of No Return

Young Canadians face too many barriers to entry into the job market—an issue that could reverberate through the economy for years to come.

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The Future of Mining Might Be Smaller than You Think

As the world’s demand for metals continues to rise, some are using microorganisms to mine and “clean” waste

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The Darker Side of Leonard Cohen

How the myth of the male genius shields our cultural heroes from scrutiny

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Sarah Bernstein Breaks the Rules in Study for Obedience

The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told

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Letters to the Editor: September/October 2023

On triumphs in space, safety nets, and studying literature in the time of ChatGPT

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Trauma Is Shaping Our Reactions to the Violence in Palestine and Israel

This is a struggle where neither side is able to demonstrate grief for the other

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As the Israel-Hamas War Escalates, Misinformation Surges

The spread of false claims on social media makes it hard to sort fact from fiction

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The Best Thing I Could Do for Climate Change Was Go Home

I was making gelato and living large in Vancouver, but something was missing. Then I returned to Old Crow, Yukon

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We May Be Stuck with Doug Ford

Failure and corruption seem to follow Ontario’s premier at every turn. What would it take to get rid of him?

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Rethinking Uncertainty in an Insecure Age

Our world is becoming more unsettled in many troubling ways. In others, it is not nearly unsettled enough

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Care and Feeding of the Amish

They had snuck from their tents this fine morning, before the spring dew dried on the grass, and come back with their prize

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How a Summer House Triggered an Existential Crisis on PEI

An Ontario couple’s planned property development has sparked environmental and right-of-access concerns—and has Islanders questioning their sense of self

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I Changed My Mind about Reading Problematic Male Authors

I came of age loving the works of Milan Kundera and Derek Walcott. Now, as a professor of literature, I have to ask tough questions

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How a Sexual Assault Case in St. John’s Exposed a Police Force’s Predatory Culture

Winning a sexual assault conviction against a cop is hard. That didn’t stop Jane Doe

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The Next Target in the War on Affirmative Action? Law Firms

The move to weed out equitable hiring is part of a much longer history of exclusion in both the US and Canada

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Introducing the Second Recipient of the CIBC Digital Fellowship for Emerging Black Journalists at The Walrus

The Walrus is pleased to announce Makda Mulatu as the CIBC 2023/24 Fellow

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Hadfield, We Have a Problem

The acclaimed astronaut’s latest novel fails to blast off

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“Parents’ Rights” Rhetoric Is Rooted in Radical Conspiracy Theories

Why are federal and provincial conservative leaders echoing the talking points of QAnon?

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Canada’s National Parks Are Colonial Crime Scenes

Many see wilderness as a right of citizenship. But the concept of Canada as untouched nature is unrecognizable to Indigenous people

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Are AI Companies Ripping Off Writers? Canadian Authors Speak Out

Yann Martel, Heather O’Neill, Douglas Coupland, and others weigh in on their books being used to train AI systems

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The Mushroom Boom

From beer to vegan leather, fungi are increasingly being used in new ways. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about the mysterious organisms

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Margaret Atwood Reviews a “Margaret Atwood” Story by AI

Plus a poem that a chatbot took ten seconds to write

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