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Lauren Tamaki

Lauren Tamaki has drawn for the New York Times, GQ, and Toronto Life.
Colourful marker illustration of Sheila Heti.
Books / May 2022

Sometimes Baffling, Sometimes Sublime: Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour

March 9, 2022May 2, 2022 - by Lauren Tamaki

The author sets out to process the loss of a father—and ends up reimagining the universe

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An illustration of the writer, Margaret Atwood, in profile. She is facing the right and has a halo of wild, curly hair.
Arts & Culture / December 2019

The Making of Margaret Atwood

November 18, 2019October 8, 2021 - by Lauren Tamaki

An oral history of the writer’s journey from student poet to cultural prophet

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Person whose top of head is a flower
Fiction / July/August 2018

Upholstery

July 24, 2018September 14, 2021 - by Lauren Tamaki

Mrs. Naimer would swim the whole way across the lake and back, a feat everyone on the beach ignored on purpose

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A women sticking her face in a flower
Fiction / July/August 2018

The Second Coming of the Plants

July 20, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Lauren Tamaki

Hear the piercing chorus of the cacti, the beat boxing of the giant redwoods. This is our lullaby for you, sprouts, and only you

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Statue with a series of flowers sticking out of it
Fiction

Tax Niʔ Pik̓ak (A Long Time Ago)

June 21, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Lauren Tamaki

Ka titi had been alive longer than most of the people on the reserve. She remembered when David Thompson arrived in Ktunaxa ʔamak̓is

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Illustration by Lauren Tamaki
Books

Living In Between Fat and Thin

August 4, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Lauren Tamaki

In a society where size means everything, we are constantly negotiating to fit in

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Illustration by Lauren Tamaki
April 2017

What I Learned from a Fitting-Room Disaster about Clothes and Life

March 24, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Lauren Tamaki

I still shop to save my soul, but I know now that what you wear is ephemeral—it’s insecurities that last a lifetime

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Illustration by Lauren Tamaki
December 2016

Whose Side Are You On, Anyway?

November 16, 2016April 2, 2020 - by Lauren Tamaki

Meet the women who hate feminism

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Illustration by Lauren Tamaki
July/August 2016

Map Quest

June 17, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Lauren Tamaki

Getting lost on the California coast, with the help of a TripTik

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December 2011 / Politics

Editor’s Note

December 17, 2011April 13, 2020 - by Lauren Tamaki

Lauren Tamaki In his last years as prime minister, Pierre Trudeau criss-crossed the globe on a mission. Having spent much of his first twelve years in office trying to bridge …

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