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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

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Arts & Culture

Why William Gibson Is a Literary Genius

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 - by Jason Guriel

Forty years after his breakout story, “Johnny Mnemonic,” the father of cyberpunk remains one of the best writers around

Books

Is There Such a Thing as a Universal Human Experience? Author Marie-Claire Blais Says Yes

August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 - by Amanda Perry

In her new novel, Songs for Angel, Blais proves that the twenty-first-century heir to modernism is a francophone octogenarian living in Florida

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Arts & Culture

What We Lose When Literary Criticism Ends

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 - by Steven Beattie

With mainstream media uninterested in books coverage that doesn’t get clicks, writers and readers are being left out in the cold

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Hotline Proves Happy Endings Are Still Worth Writing

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

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

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

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

Why William Gibson Is a Literary Genius

Is There Such a Thing as a Universal Human Experience? Author Marie-Claire Blais Says Yes

What We Lose When Literary Criticism Ends

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