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  4. The Death of the Middle-Class Musician by Luc Rinaldi
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Valerie Bah wins 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Esplanade Books/Vehicule Press)Valerie Bah wins 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Esplanade Books/Vehicule Press)

Amazon Canada and The Walrus are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award is Valérie Bah for Subterrane.

Learn more about the winning novel and the entire shortlist.

  • Part 9: Why Do We Travel?
    To Heal
    - Florence Williams reflects on how, after heartbreak, the simple act of travel helped her rediscover agency, joy, and awe. by The Walrus Lab
  • Winner Takes All - The nominees for this year’s Amazon First Novel Award explore the idea that every path has a price by The Walrus Lab
  • Writes of Passage - The nominees for this year’s Amazon Youth Short Story Award reveal how writing serves as an exercise in emotional maturity by The Walrus Lab

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This week on What Happened Next, host Nathan Whitlock is joined by author and educator Leanne Toshiko Simpson. Her debut is the novel Never Been Better, published by HarperCollins Canada in 2024. Leanne and Nathan talk about how she, as someone with bipolar disorder, handles moments of emotional upheaval, about the benefits of being a writer publicly identified with that disorder, and about the reactions she has received, from romance readers and from readers interested in reading about issues of mental health, to a rom-com novel about pysch-ward survivors.

A new podcast that brings big ideas down to earth. Each episode features a past or present scholar from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation—leaders in fields like international development, medicine, business, journalism, and epidemiology—whose work is shaping a better future for Canada and the world. These conversations reveal how cutting-edge research is being transformed into real-world impact. This is where thought meets action.

The science behind social connection is clear: volunteerism and face-to-face contact with our community members are essential for our well-being. Susan Pinker is a psychologist and author of the book The Village Effect. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content from her presentation at The Walrus Talks: Reimagining Volunteerism, supported by The Belonging Forum, an initiative of the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness. Pinker spoke at The Walrus Talks: Reimagining Volunteerism on April 15, 2025.




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  • An illustration in dark greens, blues and burgundy of a woman looking up at a house. Forest Hill Gothic - I watched as a wrinkled hand reached out of the basement window by Cassidy McFadzean

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