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Tajja Isen

Tajja Isen is the digital editor at The Walrus and a contributing editor at Catapult. She has written for Longreads, BuzzFeed, and Literary Hub.
Illustration of four people sitting in a row and reading books. The three white readers stare into their books. The brown reader looks up away from the book. Behind them is a shelf full of other books.
Arts & Culture / July/August 2020

How Not to Write a Book about a Minority Experience

June 4, 2020August 10, 2020 - by Tajja Isen

Publishers increasingly lean on outside experts to vet books for cultural insensitivity. Is it working?

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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, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Tajja Isen

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

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Books

What If MFA Programs Turn Good Writers Into Bad Ones?

July 10, 2019July 16, 2019 - by Tajja Isen

In Mona Awad’s new book, Bunny, one university campus is rife with murder, magic, and terrible authors

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Arts & Culture / Books / May 2019

Multiculturalism Is Not the Real Story of Canada

April 17, 2019May 7, 2020 - by Tajja Isen

Two new novels explore what it means to be Black in a country that prides itself on tolerance

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Double issue: declaring your data at the border, the Group of Seven 100 years later, an Indigenous-led camp for unhoused people in Edmonton, death in the age of Facebook, and quitting America for good.

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