March/April 2021 | The Walrus

March/April 2021 / Poetry

Fiat Lux

March 19, 2021March 26, 2021 - by Kateri Lanthier

The snapped lights-out in my childhood bedroom / where roses on satin turned ghost-pale by streetlamp

A photo of poet Scheier on a green background.

March/April 2021 / Poetry

Palinopsia

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 - by Jacob Scheier

If I cannot see you / properly, whatever you’re named, / are you still functioning as ode material?

Illustration on a blue and purple background of a woman walking from right to left, with illustrated flames and a rainbow of colours following her.

Fiction / March/April 2021

The Startup

March 11, 2021April 26, 2021 - by Rachel Jansen

The startup’s simulations are so good that the main complaint from users is how difficult they are to differentiate from reality

Photo of a group of people gathered in a circle around a fire put, after sundown.

March/April 2021 / Photography

Scenes from Canada’s Housing Crisis

March 3, 2021June 14, 2021 - by Amber Bracken

As cities across the country failed their unhoused populations, one Indigenous-led camp in Edmonton offered support

A comic alternating between people engaging in lockdown activities and close-ups of the virus

Ask an Expert / March/April 2021

Ask an Expert: How Bad Are Lockdowns Really?

February 25, 2021July 19, 2021 - by Rob Gillezeau

Government restrictions may not always be popular among businesses, but they can work

Illustration of a copper jug amidst yellow and white and purple flowers.

March/April 2021 / Memoir

Death in the Age of Facebook

February 23, 2021July 20, 2021 - by Sandy Pool

What it’s like to mourn a mother via social media

Arts & Culture / March/April 2021

The Group of Seven Doesn’t Define Canadian Art

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 - by Tatum Dooley

After 100 years, is it time to retire the collective as Canada’s definitive painters?

March/April 2021 / Poetry

The Needs of Humans

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 - by Sarah Wolfson

I am in need of a manicure. / A manticore. A man to cure.

An officer at the Cameron County Detention Centre watches security footage from the control room, on many screens.

March/April 2021 / Technology

When Border Security Crosses a Line

February 17, 2021March 9, 2021 - by Hilary Beaumont

International crossings are now testing grounds for unregulated surveillance technology

A photo of a sunrise or a sunset with a slightly darkened sky and shells spelling out the words land back.

Justice / March/April 2021

Standoff at 1492 Land Back Lane

February 8, 2021June 8, 2021 - by Luke Ottenhof

How twenty-five acres of Ontario farmland have become a new front in the battle for Indigenous self-governance