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The Best Books of Fall 2023

September 8, 2023October 11, 2023 - by The Walrus Staff

An eclectic list featuring the season’s most compelling new novels, nonfiction, and poetry, as curated by The Walrus

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The Novel Written about—and with—Artificial Intelligence

September 7, 2023October 26, 2023 - by Brian Bethune

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

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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

Illustration of four wooden chairs around a table with empty drinking glasses on top.

Fiction / July/August 2023

Like a Mother

August 18, 2023August 18, 2023 - by Fawn Parker

I imagined, with each feeding, that I might become less of a mother and more of my old self

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Where Is the Canadian Fiction about Afghanistan?

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 - by Nathan Whitlock

Canadians are far from squeamish in our literary tastes, but novels about the country where we were once at war are rare

July/August 2023 / Poetry

Map

August 2, 2023August 2, 2023 - by Phillip Crymble

Together—in our solitudes—we’d throw the last / few bundles in the hatchback—cruise the boulevards

July/August 2023 / Poetry

Bird Brain

August 2, 2023August 1, 2023 - by Daniel Scott Tysdal

Perched on / the tips of my fingers, they watch me with chest-puffed / caution or cap-tilted curiosity

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Books / September/October 2023

Is a Life Lived through Art Really Lived at All?

August 1, 2023August 1, 2023 - by Ariella Garmaise

The questions posed in Patrick deWitt’s The Librarianist feel personal and existential

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Books / March/April 2023

Steven Heighton’s Posthumous Book Is a Reckoning with Death

March 6, 2023March 3, 2023 - by Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Instructions for the Drowning offers a glimpse of the closure the author may have hoped for

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The Novel Written about—and with—Artificial Intelligence

Buddy West

Where Is the Canadian Fiction about Afghanistan?

Is a Life Lived through Art Really Lived at All?

Steven Heighton’s Posthumous Book Is a Reckoning with Death

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