Editor’s Letter: The Plot Twist in COVID-19’s Story
Our drawn-out, often convoluted fight against the pandemic has been a narrative nightmare
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The Summer Reading issue of The Walrus featuring new fiction from Randy Boyagoda, Charlotte Gill and Michael LaPointe plus new poetry from Steven Heighton, Armand Garnet Ruffo and Roo Borson.
Observed and Observing, That’s Him
From his vantage, he has a bird’s eye view / and he can see they are doing their best / to ignore the dark sky
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The Making of Moonstruck
The 1987 rom-com starring Cher and Nicolas Cage seemed doomed to fail. Director Norman Jewison turned it into a modern classic
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Mark Carney Was the World’s Rock-Star Banker. Now He’s Ready for His Encore
Carney led two central banks through two world-shifting crises. Does that make him a political contender?
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Ask a Tourism Expert: How Will People Travel in a Postpandemic World?
Vacations are back—and pricier than ever
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Spirit at Summer’s End
At any given moment / something rare and exact / will have happened here
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