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July/August 2021

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.

Illustration of a three-act plot structure.
July/August 2021

Editor’s Letter: The Plot Twist in COVID-19’s Story

July 13, 2021July 16, 2021 - by Jessica Johnson

Our drawn-out, often convoluted fight against the pandemic has been a narrative nightmare

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July/August 2021 / Poetry

Observed and Observing, That’s Him

July 2, 2021June 29, 2021 - by Armand Garnet Ruffo

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 face of a woman is in the foreground. She is lying down and looking up. In the background is a forest landscape at night with mountains and stars visible. The silhouette of a creature peeks out above the treetops.
Fiction / July/August 2021

Giganto

July 1, 2021January 4, 2022 - by Charlotte Gill

Giganto is known by various names: almasty, migyhur, meh-teh, dzu-teh. Around here, the common term is a bastardization of a word from a Coast Salish language, Sásq’ets, or “wild man”

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July/August 2021

The Making of Moonstruck

June 28, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Ira Wells

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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A family with two parents and five children hold hands around a table. A bowl is in front of each person and the parents’ clasped hands are large in the foreground.
Fiction / July/August 2021

Little Sanctuary

June 25, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Randy Boyagoda

The bus sped past abandoned houses, burned-out cars, skinny cows, masked and bandaged people running to the road at the sight of a vehicle, any vehicle, and others running away

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July/August 2021 / Politics

Mark Carney Was the World’s Rock-Star Banker. Now He’s Ready for His Encore

June 22, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Curtis Gillespie

Carney led two central banks through two world-shifting crises. Does that make him a political contender?

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July/August 2021

Ask a Tourism Expert: How Will People Travel in a Postpandemic World?

June 21, 2021September 15, 2023 - by Chris Choi

Vacations are back—and pricier than ever

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July/August 2021 / Poetry

Spirit at Summer’s End

June 18, 2021 - by Roo Borson

At any given moment / something rare and exact / will have happened here

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A man, in the background and mostly out of frame, holds a large guitar. A smaller man in the foreground stands at the start of a curvy golden path, drawn in place of the strings of the guitar, which leads to a dandelion in the distance.
Fiction / July/August 2021

Private Hands

June 16, 2021January 4, 2022 - by Michael LaPointe

My job title was personal assistant, but all my duties pertained to Harvey’s collection. Provenance was everything. A purchase had to be like a royal marriage, the lineage assured

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A Black man embraces a Black woman who is sitting on a kitchen countertop. The woman is looking at the camera.
July/August 2021

The Way We Were

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 - by Jorian Charlton

Artist Jorian Charlton on the meaning of the Black family photo album and the essential nature of these archives

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