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Arts & Culture

Poet Steven Heighton on Writing, Making Music, and Literally Losing His Voice

January 21, 2022July 21, 2022 - by Rob Taylor

The author of nineteen books explains why success won’t make you happy

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Arts & Culture

Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad?

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 - by Tracey Lindeman

Buildings from the past fifty years have been largely uninspiring. Why don’t we take good design seriously?

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Technology

Reevaluating the Role of Technology

December 27, 2021July 11, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Privacy, surveillance, and the power of social media were major themes in 2021

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Arts & Culture / Books

The Year of Witch Lit: Weird Women Dominated New Stories of Suspicion and Rupture

December 17, 2021April 30, 2022 - by Alix Hawley

Three novels about confusion, distrust, and fear mirror our pandemic moment

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Arts & Culture / Television

Looney Tunes Will Never Die and That’s All, Folks!

December 15, 2021April 30, 2022 - by Jaime Weinman

How Bugs Bunny and his pals managed to become a TV success impervious to time and changing standards

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Technology

All Aboard the Metaverse: Is the New Digital Frontier Unstoppable?

December 8, 2021April 22, 2022 - by Jon Evans

It may not exist yet, but no one in tech can risk ignoring Mark Zuckerberg’s next big thing

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An image of nine book covers on a pink background with wavy lines on it. Going clockwise, the books are: Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers by Marcello Di Cintio, Fathers at Hockey by Richard Sanger, The Singing Forest by Judith McCormack, All’s Well by Mona Awad, The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat, Why I Was Late by Charlie Petch, Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson, Pure Flame by Michelle Orange, and Second Place by Rachel Cusk.
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Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books of 2021

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 - by The Walrus Staff

From legal dramas to hockey poems, some of our leading contemporary writers discuss their top reads

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Arts & Culture / Books

The Shadow Land: Indigenous Memoirs and the Question of “Trauma Porn”

November 25, 2021November 26, 2021 - by Cody Caetano

The term has emerged as an insidious charge. How should we approach painful stories?

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Arts & Culture / Television

The Wheel of Time: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Adaptations of Our Favourite Books

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 - by Harley Rustad

The challenge for Robert Jordan fans is to avoid nitpicking the flashy new Amazon series

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Sports

Toronto Is Canada’s Basketball Centre, but You Can’t Always See That in Its Courts

November 17, 2021 - by Perry King

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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