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A photograph of Alice Munro on a board walk near a lake. She is looking away from the camera and wearing a jacket and scarf.

An exclusive interview with Robert Thacker on the secret he carried for twenty years

Arts & Culture

2024: The Year in Arts & Culture

December 30, 2024January 1, 2025 - by Various Contributors

Thoughtful essays and fascinating deep dives into everything from art forgeries to Joni Mitchell’s best work

An illustration of an apartment with green cupboards and brown counters. A mouse looks over the edge of a sink.

Fiction / November 2024

Extermination

December 13, 2024December 12, 2024 - by Sue Murtagh

Even if you don’t see them or hear them, there are always others—somewhere in your home

Black and white photo of Ricardo Sternberg on an orange background.

November 2024 / Poetry

Rivers

November 27, 2024November 26, 2024 - by Ricardo Sternberg

He wanted throats constricted, / speech impeded, eyes rimmed red, / the room brimming with tears

Arts & Culture / January/February 2025

Forget Polite Verse – This Poet Wants You to Feel the Salt and Soil of Newfoundland

November 7, 2024November 21, 2024 - by Nicholas Bradley

Mary Dalton’s fight to preserve her community’s speech

An illustration of a flames surrounding black vines and dark grapes. At the centre is a window with the shade pulled down.

Fiction / September/October 2024

Smokehouse

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024 - by Nour Abi-Nakhoul

It was as if I’d swallowed the forest fire itself, all of it burning and alive inside of me

A photo illustration of a brick wall covered in the remnants of posters. There's a peeling black-and-white poster with Alice Munro's face and part of her name that has a spraypainted red X across it.

Books

Undoing the Fairy Tale of Alice Munro

October 15, 2024October 15, 2024 - by Justina Elias

For years, I helped spread a glowing narrative about one of Canada’s most famous authors

A black-and-white photo of Tom Wayman against a blue blackground

Poetry / September/October 2024

The Contagion in the Countryside: Train

October 10, 2024October 9, 2024 - by Tom Wayman

ominous, as if the cargo / constitutes a threat beyond “Hazardous Goods”

Books

Kevin Lambert Proves That Literature Can Still Be an Invigorating Slap in the Face

September 19, 2024September 19, 2024 - by André Forget

His elegant and vicious new novel tracks the fall of a good billionaire

Author Alice Munro, her eyes peering over a book that's partly obscuring her face

Books

Who Knew What about Alice Munro?

September 6, 2024September 12, 2024 - by The Walrus Staff

An interview with editor Deborah Dundas on breaking the story

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Extermination

Forget Polite Verse – This Poet Wants You to Feel the Salt and Soil of Newfoundland

Smokehouse

Kevin Lambert Proves That Literature Can Still Be an Invigorating Slap in the Face

Who Knew What about Alice Munro?

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