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Emily Landau

Emily Landau is an associate editor at Toronto Life and a former Walrus intern.
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March 2015 / Memoir

After Two Decades on Antidepressants, Who Am I?

February 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Emily Landau

I was diagnosed with a mental illness at age eleven and joined one of the first generations to grow up on prescription pills

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Two girls holding books in front of their faces
April 2014 / Books

Never-Never Land

March 18, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Emily Landau

Don’t blame millennials for new-adult fiction

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Person holding a video game controller, starring at a screen
March 2014 / Society

Moral Code

February 26, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Emily Landau

A new breed of video game challenges your conscience

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Books / September 2013

American Dreamer

August 12, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Emily Landau

David Rakoff’s posthumous novel is an unexpected tale of empathy and hope

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Illustration by Graham Roumieu
Books / June 2013

Slaying Dragons

May 14, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Emily Landau

The limited imagination of high-fantasy fiction

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Illustration by Shannon Jager
September 2012 / Television

Teenage Dreams

September 12, 2012October 23, 2019 - by Emily Landau

After twenty-five years, Degrassi remains popular culture’s most honest depiction of teen life

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Illustration by Stefanie Ayoub
Arts & Culture / July/August 2012

Double Vision

July 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Emily Landau

Poet Pauline Johnson enthralled Victorian theatregoers with a stereotype-smashing spin on her Mohawk-English heritage. Along the way, she became Canada’s first postmodern celebrity

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Illustration by Patrick Kyle
Books / January/February 2012

Lost Boy

January 12, 2012August 8, 2020 - by Emily Landau

With his parody of children’s books, Highly Inapproriate Tales for Young People, Douglas Coupland joins his Gen X peers, revelling in nostalgia. Isn’t it time to grow up?

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Photograph by David MacVicar
Cities / May 2011

Secrets of the Deep

May 12, 2011April 19, 2020 - by Emily Landau

Has Nova Scotia put its treasure hunters—and the bounty they seek—at risk of extinction?

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Arts & Culture / December 2009

Where the Wild Things Were

December 12, 2009July 27, 2020 - by Emily Landau

A retrospective of werewolves in popular culture

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