The Meaning of Hockey
Our game is like no other. Nor is its history
Read MoreMonth: November 2011
Editor’s Note
I have lived in other Canadian cities—Montreal, Calgary, and Ottawa—but I have spent most of my life in Toronto. There is no place on earth to which I am more …
Read MoreChalk It Up
Featuring newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford
Read MoreWhat Was That Poem?
My mother asked me, What was that poem? It was Longfellow’s “My Lost Youth,” I think. The answer was Longfellow, often enough, even though she never liked Evangeline. I talked …
Read MoreModern Inconveniences
A design writer and self-confessed slob seeks transformation in a year of living minimally
Read MoreValérie Blass
Se reposer sur le côté long et dure des choses (2011) and Jeux de direction (2011): six original works commissioned by The Walrus
Read MoreThe Observer, Observed
New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik is an aesthete of the ordinary, and this year’s Massey lecturer
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