Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Doubleday Canada)Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Doubleday Canada)

Amazon Canada and The Walrus are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award is Alicia Elliott for And Then She Fell.

Learn more about the winning novel and the entire shortlist.


  • Part 2: Why Do We Travel? To Experience Awe - Elizabeth Renzetti captures the awe and transformative experiences of travel, from the majesty of Iguazu Falls to the poignant moments in the Philippines, and the serendipitous connections made along the way. by Elizabeth Renzetti
  • More Than Words - How Indigenous language revitalization holds the key to the biodiversity crisis by Brianna Sharpe

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The November 2024 cover of The Walrus magazine featuring a photo of Pierre Poilievre walking towards the camera. Headline reads: 'IF HE WINS: How Poilievre will change Canada'” style=

Inside the November issue of The Walrus

The AGO vs. Wanda Nanibush
A troubled school for troubled teens
The hidden racism of book cover design
How burnout is driving lawyers to AI—and into trouble
➔ How Pierre Poilievre will change Canada

Podcasts

Carl Wilson is the music critic at Slate and the author of Let’s Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, which he himself describes as being about “aesthetic conflict, class, and Céline Dion.” In this episode, Carl talks to Nathan about Céline’s recent performance at the Paris Olympics, about the unlikely popular and academic success of Let’s Talk about Love, and about the two book-length works he wants to complete—one a biography of the beloved singer-songwriter David Berman, the other a treatise on the legitimacy of crying as a critical response to great art.

Stephen Poloz is the former Governor of the Bank Canada and currently a Special Advisor for Osler. Author of The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future, Stephen speaks with host Duncan Sinclair about the common tectonic tensions that are embedded in our everyday lives: an aging workforce, mounting debt, rising income inequality, technological advances and climate change. He has some new advice for getting through these challenging times.

487 trails, part of the Trans Canada Trail, can tell an important story about Canada, its history and its people. Dianne Whelan is a filmmaker, photographer, author, and public speaker. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content from her presentation at Manulife presents The Walrus Talks Nature, supported by Trans Canada Trail.




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  • Watercolour illustration of a park with a pond and people reading books on a bench beneath a large weeping willow tree. Summer Reading 2024 - New fiction and poetry from Souvankham Thammavongsa, Bruce Taylor, and more by Various Contributors

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Fiction
  • Watercolour illustration of a park with a pond and people reading books on a bench beneath a large weeping willow tree. Summer Reading 2024 - New fiction and poetry from Souvankham Thammavongsa, Bruce Taylor, and more by Various Contributors

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