Third State
When the school burned, our ghosts were released. For years we’d only seen well-meaning psychics who entered the classroom to light sage and lay cards, while our ghosts looked on …
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The Supreme Battle
How Antonin Scalia’s brash ideas influenced Canadian courts
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The Private Life of Omar Khadr
Can someone who spent a decade in Guantanamo emerge unscathed?
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Where the Yazoo Cross the Yellow Dog
Jimbo Palmer and Rob Forde were both fourteen, with Jimbo some months older than Rob. Jimbo’s mother was warm and friendly but ineffectual. She remonstrated by saying in a trailing-off …
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What We Read: Up Here and Down There
Walrus staff talk about what’s on their minds, desks, and nightstands
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All Bodies Great and Small
Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl traces the outline of a weight-obsessed culture
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A Poet Self-Destructs
The tormented life of my friend Murdoch Burnett
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Lupine-Like Scall (Porrigo lupinosa)
Insidiously cutaneous the avalanching alpha-pitch. Ow-oooooooooo-oooooooooo-ooo-ooo Throaty exfoliating whips the dead of winter a wide predatory incrustation—scalp, countenance, torso, and gut. A middle of everywhere nowhere. Phew! Scent the whiff …
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One-Trick Tiger
Great writers face unpleasant truths. Yann Martel does the opposite
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