Arts & Culture | The Walrus

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Arts & Culture

Lorna Goodison and the Wicked Force of Poetry

September 3, 2020September 4, 2020 - by Kate Siklosi

The first Canadian to win the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry finds beauty in a world that often denies it

Illustration of an internet forum open on a computer desktop. Part of the forum is pulled down in the style of a window blind. Behind it is a red room filled with silhouettes of men talking to one another.

September/October 2020 / Technology

The Making of an Incel

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 - by Katherine Laidlaw

How misogyny in online forums turns into real-life violence

Illustration of a robed wizard, with long grey hair and a pointed hat, facing away from the viewer and standing in front of a long, twisting path that is blocked by a fiery head of a monster.

Arts & Culture / September/October 2020

How The Lord of the Rings Made Me a Better Parent

August 19, 2020October 19, 2020 - by Thomas Homer-Dixon

Tolkien’s trilogy teaches us how to stay hopeful in the face of overwhelming odds

Screenshot of the actress who plays Anne Shirley on the TV show Anne with an E. She has red hair and freckles and is looking towards the top of the frame while wrapped in a grey blanket.

Arts & Culture / Television

When Anne with an E Fans Waged War against Netflix

August 5, 2020October 13, 2020 - by John Semley

In their campaign to save the show, fans stopped behaving like an audience and started acting like owners

A photograph of Buffy Sainte-Marie holding up her new picture book and smiling. The background is bright green with stripes radiating out from behind Buffy.

Arts & Culture

In Conversation: Buffy Sainte-Marie and Angela Misri

July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 - by Angela Misri

The two writers on pet adoption, children’s literature, and Sainte-Marie’s new picture book

Illustration of a skateboarder in three poses, each against a bright orange square. The background is purple and pink striped.

Sports

Inside Skateboarding’s New Counterculture

July 28, 2020July 29, 2020 - by Cole Nowicki

Social media has democratized skateboarding by inviting in a new audience unaware of the “rules”

A yellow book cover with a woman wearing blue tights and high platform shoes. The background, yellow, red and blue graphics, corresponds with the cover of the book.

Arts & Culture / Books

How to Break Every Rule of Contemporary Writing and Succeed

July 2, 2020July 3, 2020 - by André Forget

Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s new book cracks open the tired tradition of the postmodern novel

Arts & Culture / Terra Cognita

Notes from an Apocalypse

June 29, 2020July 6, 2020 - by Chelsea Vowel

In Jeff Barnaby’s latest horror film, the zombies are colonizers and only we are immune

A woman stands at the edge of a dark forest in a long dress and holds a candle in front of her face.

Arts & Culture

Following the Footsteps of a Nineteenth-Century Painter

June 25, 2020 - by Naomi Harris

In the summer of 2018, I embarked on a seventy-day canoe trip to retrace the journey of Frances Anne Hopkins

June 2020 / Visual Art

How One Painter Captures the Wonder of Ordinary Spaces

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 - by Sophie Weiler

Margaux Williamson’s portraits of interiors pay homage to what’s right in front of us