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Carly Lewis

Carly Lewis is a writer living in Toronto. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Interview Magazine, and The Atlantic.
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The Fault, Dear Reader, Is Not in Our Stars

August 12, 2020September 28, 2020 - by Carly Lewis

Mental health care is pricey and inaccessible. Online astrology is rising to take its place

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A New Sound for Inuit Music

March 12, 2020June 16, 2020 - by Carly Lewis

Riit’s new album fuses throat singing and electropop, pushing the borders of both genres

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The Radical Notion of Safe Spaces in Music

January 24, 2018September 14, 2021 - by Carly Lewis

Toronto’s Venus Fest is part of a movement to prove our music scenes can be free of sexism

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The Year of Complicity

December 23, 2014October 20, 2021 - by Carly Lewis

On Jian Ghomeshi, Bill Cosby, and their enablers

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Rookie’s Intuition

November 1, 2013May 11, 2022 - by Carly Lewis

Tavi Gevinson’s brave new world for beaming young women, in pulp and pixels

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Much Ado About Music

October 1, 2013September 13, 2021 - by Carly Lewis

At the tangled intersection of art and commerce, Godspeed You! Black Emperor crashes into the Polaris Music Prize

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Boys

January 31, 2013July 12, 2020 - by Carly Lewis

The trouble with female celebrity profiles and the men who write them

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