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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

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An illustration of Mary Dalton.

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

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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

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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.

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

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Kevin Lambert.

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

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

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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A navy and red illustration featuring different people with their faces blocked by open books. The covers spell out "fall books!"

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

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A group of women in a salon turn to look at a pigeon sitting on the widow ledge. The workers are in dark clothing with their hair in buns on the top of their heads. The customers are wearing white dresses and their blonde hair is worn down.

Fiction / July/August 2024

Pick a Colour

July 26, 2024July 30, 2024 - by Souvankham Thammavongsa

She hasn’t really looked at me. She knows I am there and what I do

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A girl with short pink hair looks across the room at an identical girl sitting and writing in a journal. Silhouettes of trees are seen through the windows.

Fiction / July/August 2024

August 2150

July 26, 2024July 30, 2024 - by Tomas Hachard

The latest rain event had been scheduled for the night before, but something had gone wrong

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