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The Best Books of Fall 2024

September 4, 2024September 19, 2024 - by The Walrus Staff

Our top ten picks of the season, featuring fiction, nonfiction, and more

Illustrations of glasses, matches, a car, fountain pen, amulet, leaves, coins, flowers, fountains and a large house surround a black-and-white photo of a Sri Lankan family snipped by bird-shaped scissors.

Fiction / May 2024

Wo

March 29, 2024March 28, 2024 - by Randy Boyagoda

We ate and drank and drove on and I went off the road, and so we discussed the situation and decided it would be a good idea to pull off the road

Black and white illustration of a female mermaid-like figure with a pink background. She is sitting on a stone with her feet and left hand dipped in the sea while her right hand holds a glowing box. Behind her is the outline of an orb through which the distant horizon is visible. A swirling border surrounds the scene with leering eyes drawn in the top corners, looking down at the figure.

Fiction / March/April 2024

Two Female Modes of Transportation

February 19, 2024February 19, 2024 - by Jowita Bydlowska

The boy watches as the girl slumps over herself, the fire hair like a warning against coming closer

An illustration of a woman looking at an outstretched hand holding a gold watch in the middle of rummaging through a drawer. In the background is a body lying on the floor beside a table with a bottle of champagne and a champagne flute on top of it.

Fiction / January/February 2024

The Last Vacation

January 5, 2024January 4, 2024 - by Marlowe Granados

The face of the con was always someone who embodied the fashion of the time—a slob, a genius, or finally, a charismatic dum-dum

An illustration of a father curled up next to his son in a hospital bed underneath green, red, and white-coloured string lights.

December 2023 / Fiction

Jude the Brave

December 12, 2023December 11, 2023 - by Claire Cameron

Everything looked the same as the year before—the rows of brick, a tree with lights, an inflatable Santa. Nothing was

A photo illustration of a person’s eye getting scanned.

Books

The Novel Written about—and with—Artificial Intelligence

September 7, 2023September 3, 2024 - by Brian Bethune

Do You Remember Being Born? is a tech-inflected novel for a digital world

Illustration of a light pink couch with two cushions and a white blanket draped over the top.

Fiction / July/August 2023

Buddy West

September 1, 2023September 1, 2023 - by Sam Shelstad

“How much for the cowboy in the window?”

Illustration of two wolves, drawn in a childish style, riding a bicycle. In the background is a rock and tree branch.

Fiction / July/August 2023

Dispatches Regarding the Woeful Origins of the Town’s Bicycle Race

August 26, 2023August 26, 2023 - by Tom Froh

Today a ranger spotted two wolves on a carbon-frame Ibis tearing down a hill at fifty kilometres per hour

An illustration of a woman's shadow casting over a framed photograph of a young woman wearing Mughal-era clothing, bangles, rings, and jasmine flowers

Fiction / March/April 2023

The Photograph, 1889

February 27, 2023March 7, 2023 - by Nazneen Sheikh

She looked up at the wall, and the young woman with dramatic eyebrows gazed back at her from the frame

Fiction / January/February 2023

The Money

January 23, 2023January 20, 2023 - by Lynn Coady

Ever since childhood, words would desert Helen when she got angry—if she felt any kind of strong emotion, really

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