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Books / Television

Books on TV: Is the Boom in Adaptations a Boon for Authors?

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 - by Richard Trapunski

How a surge in TV production is shaking up the publishing industry

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Books

Hotline Proves Happy Endings Are Still Worth Writing

June 6, 2022June 9, 2022 - by Amanda Perry

Fiction about immigrants tends toward melancholy and tragedy. Dimitri Nasrallah’s new novel delivers something different

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Podcasts

Heather O’Neill on Women’s Relationship with Food: Episode 10 of The Deep Dive

March 24, 2022May 10, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Have you ever noticed that there are an inordinate amount of sweets in films directed by women? Writer Heather O’Neill has. She decided to explore why we have a fixation on sweet treats

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Books / May 2022

Sometimes Baffling, Sometimes Sublime: Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour

March 9, 2022May 2, 2022 - by Myra Bloom

The author sets out to process the loss of a father—and ends up reimagining the universe

Books / March/April 2022

Bad Company: A New Novel Strips Away the Veneer of Progressive Rhetoric

February 15, 2022April 30, 2022 - by Irina Dumitrescu

Naben Ruthnum takes on diversity charades, token promotions, and the social justice facades of corporations

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Books / December 2021

The New Pamphleteers: Why One Publisher Is Betting on Short Books with Big Ideas

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 - by Mark Abley

Biblioasis’s new series tries to incite debate and fill a hole in the publishing landscape

An image of nine book covers on a pink background with wavy lines on it. Going clockwise, the books are: Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers by Marcello Di Cintio, Fathers at Hockey by Richard Sanger, The Singing Forest by Judith McCormack, All’s Well by Mona Awad, The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat, Why I Was Late by Charlie Petch, Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson, Pure Flame by Michelle Orange, and Second Place by Rachel Cusk.

Arts & Culture / Books

Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books of 2021

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 - by The Walrus Staff

From legal dramas to hockey poems, some of our leading contemporary writers discuss their top reads

Arts & Culture

The Writers Leading the Nonfiction Revolution

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 - by Myra Bloom

A new wave of experimental writing sees racialized authors forging their own literary tradition

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Arts & Culture / Books / January/February 2021

Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books of 2020

December 7, 2020March 24, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

From a dystopia that vilifies sleep to a heartbreaking account of the end of a life, here are some of our leading contemporary writers’ favourite books of the year

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Arts & Culture

The Author Who Shaped the Way We Represent Disability

October 23, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Meagan Gillmore

Mainstream entertainment rarely allows people with disabilities to exist as we are. Jean Little’s work taught me there’s no shame in writing about our experiences

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