The First Giller
When CanLit got its glam
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The Sun Will Come Out #tomorrow
An interview with science and technology author and optimist Clive Thompson
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Happy Medium Is the Message
In Smarter Than You Think, Clive Thompson finds the middle ground between digital utopians and Luddite naysayers
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Parable of the Queen of the North
Excerpted from the author’s new book, The Oil Man and the Sea
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David Rakoff’s posthumous novel is an unexpected tale of empathy and hope
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What Are You Reading?
A summer survey of Walrus writers, artists, and readers
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Slaying Dragons
The limited imagination of high-fantasy fiction
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Why Do We Cook?
Michael Pollan’s Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, reviewed
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Fifty Shades of Vanilla
The fairy-tale fantasies of the erotic bestseller
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Myth Interpretation
In Red Doc, poet Anne Carson adds a new twist to her tale of Hercules and Geryon’s turbulent gay love affair
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