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Books / January/February 2020

Climate Fiction’s Unhelpful Obsession With the End of the World

January 9, 2020 - by Damian Tarnopolsky

We already have plenty of stories about the apocalypse. Now, we need ones that imagine new futures

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Covers from the best books of 2019.

Ten Canadian Authors on the Best Books of 2019

December 5, 2019December 8, 2019 - by The Walrus Staff

We asked some of our leading contemporary writers to pick their favourite reads of the year

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A photo of the poet Elizabeth Smart in her later years, wearing a dark jacket and a white shirt with a frilled collar, looking to the left of the frame and smoking.

Arts & Culture / December 2019

Elizabeth Smart Died in 1986. Her Work Still Haunts Me

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019 - by Dale Hrabi

Poetic genius, bohemian, copywriter: she taught me to never compromise

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Arts & Culture / December 2019

The Making of Margaret Atwood

November 18, 2019December 11, 2019 - by Tajja Isen

An oral history of the writer’s journey from student poet to cultural prophet

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Arts & Culture / Books

The Search for the Great Canadian Novel

October 4, 2018November 13, 2019 - by André Forget

Our national life is exciting, dramatic, and unpredictable. Why don’t more Canadian novelists write about it?

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street and cafe in paris france

Feature / March 2015

Traces of Mavis

March 18, 2015November 25, 2019 - by David Macfarlane

How a great Canadian writer died penniless in Paris

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