Who Knew What about Alice Munro? - An interview with editor Deborah Dundas on breaking the story
Weekly Quiz: Bears, Walkable Cities, and Self-Diagnosis - How closely have you been reading our online stories this week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday.
- My Guilty Pleasure: I Enjoy Southern Gospel Because It Hardly Makes Me Feel at All - As a consequence of growing up Black in a white world, I am comfortable feeling alienated from my own emotions
- Montreal Kicked Cars to the Curb and Thrived - The city’s pedestrian revolution should set a new standard across North America
- Self-Diagnosis Is Making Memoir Too Predictable - The joy of reading memoir is to watch another mind puzzle through its inner mechanics. If the outcome is already decided, why bother?
- Breaking: The Meeting House Closes Its Doors - The megachurch’s shuttering comes after a series of award-winning investigations by The Walrus into sexual abuse allegations and convictions
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.
Inside the September/October issue of The Walrus
➔ How Scott Moe is changing Canada
➔ The scourge of self-checkout
➔ A scientist’s quest to decode Vermeer’s true colours
➔ The disappearance of Robin Windross
➔ How social media is revitalizing Indigenous languages
Peter Darbyshire is an author, journalist, and communications expert. In this episode, Peter talks to Nathan about about how running the COVID-19 social media response for a provincial health authority gave him a new perspective on the apocalypse, about how the stretch of time since his last new work of fiction speaks to something of a crisis of faith when it comes to his own writing, and about the process of getting the Cross trilogy reprinted.
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.
- Conservatives Poised to Dominate in British Columbia - As the provincial election nears, polls reveal a stunning political realignment
- My Guilty Pleasure: I Enjoy Southern Gospel Because It Hardly Makes Me Feel at All - As a consequence of growing up Black in a white world, I am comfortable feeling alienated from my own emotions
- How We Treat Bears in Cities Is Trash - Too many of them are becoming casualties in the battle of the bins
- The Opioid Crisis Is Surging. We’re Still Ignoring Experts - The perils of prioritizing politics over public health
