The Year of Witch Lit: Weird Women Dominated New Stories of Suspicion and Rupture
Three novels about confusion, distrust, and fear mirror our pandemic moment
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Looney Tunes Will Never Die and That’s All, Folks!
How Bugs Bunny and his pals managed to become a TV success impervious to time and changing standards
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All Aboard the Metaverse: Is the New Digital Frontier Unstoppable?
It may not exist yet, but no one in tech can risk ignoring Mark Zuckerberg’s next big thing
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The Shadow Land: Indigenous Memoirs and the Question of “Trauma Porn”
The term has emerged as an insidious charge. How should we approach painful stories?
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The Wheel of Time: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Adaptations of Our Favourite Books
The challenge for Robert Jordan fans is to avoid nitpicking the flashy new Amazon series
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Toronto Is Canada’s Basketball Centre, but You Can’t Always See That in Its Courts
Thanks to the Raptors, basketball has never been so popular. But the lack of high-quality facilities tells a troubling story
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Porch Cameras and Facebook Groups Are Turning Streets into Surveillance States
Our tech-driven approach to neighbourhood watch is cementing community divisions
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The Influence of Dub Poet Lillian Allen Runs Deep
How a poet once relegated to the fringes helped fashion a new narrative of who a Canadian artist could be
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Why We Need a Good Villain: From Ancient Lore to Pandemic Finger Pointing
Villains have starred in our stories for eons. Is that why we want someone to blame for COVID-19?
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