When Toronto Turned Its Back on Vince Carter
A new TIFF documentary reveals the impossible expectations we place on our star athletes
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What I Learned From Asking Celebrities to Photograph Me at TIFF
For fifteen years, I’ve asked everyone from Isabella Rossellini to Salman Rushdie to flip the lens. The result is a visual archive of my life—and a meditation on the changing nature of stardom
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Walrus Poetry Prize Judge Jordan Abel Shares What He’s Looking for This Year
“I’d like to begin to read a poem and then not be able to stop”
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The Push to Bring Home Indigenous Artifacts
How Canadian museums are working with communities to repatriate thousands of sacred objects
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Lessons From Calgary’s Public Art Scandal
What the Bowfort Towers can teach us about urban identity-making
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The Case Against Literary Tennis Writing
Literary journalism that is nominally about the sport can be good—if you happen to be reading David Foster Wallace. In most other circumstances, not so much
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How Canada Became a Tennis Powerhouse
Inside the bid to take Canadian players from obscurity to stardom
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Man of Letters
Jack Rabinovitch was one of my father’s truest friends—and a pillar in my own life
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The New Historian
In her latest album, Simone Schmidt sings the forgotten stories of women incarcerated a Kingston mental asylum—and questions who has the right to rewrite history
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Carly Rae Jepsen Hasn’t Earned Your Scholarly Scrutiny
Contemporary culture writers warp their subjects out of proportion by applying more gravitas than is warranted by the source material
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