canadian literature

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

An illustration of poet Steven Heighton in front of the sea at night.

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

A book of poems covered with awards stickers.

Arts & Culture

The Griffin Poetry Prize Shakeup: New Rules, New Controversy

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 - by Amanda Perry

Scott Griffin wants to create the most lucrative poetry prize in the world. Not everyone is happy

Arts & Culture / November 2022

Why This Poet Declared War on Her Own Book

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 - by Connor Garel

When M. NourbeSe Philip’s work on a slave ship massacre was translated without her consent, she didn’t recognize it anymore. Who ultimately owns the stories we tell?

Books

Ann-Marie MacDonald on Exile, Imagination, and Her New Gothic Ghost Story

October 12, 2022 - by Michelle Cyca

The writer insists that her books have happy endings—“insofar as there is someone left to tell the tale”

Arts & Culture

100 Years of Mavis Gallant

September 15, 2022September 15, 2022 - by Heather O’Neill

Her stories are about the cost of living and the cost of love. It’s why they still endure

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Books

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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Is a Life Lived through Art Really Lived at All?

Steven Heighton’s Posthumous Book Is a Reckoning with Death

The Griffin Poetry Prize Shakeup: New Rules, New Controversy

Ann-Marie MacDonald on Exile, Imagination, and Her New Gothic Ghost Story

100 Years of Mavis Gallant

Hotline Proves Happy Endings Are Still Worth Writing

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

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