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What Makes Alias Grace so Good

September 29, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Courtney Jane Walker

As a TV writer, I learned strong protagonists drive action. But the latest adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s feminist classic subverts all of that

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Photograph by Raymond Clarke Images
Books

How Claire Messud Learned to Talk Like a Teenage Girl

September 26, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Anna Fitzpatrick

The author’s new novel gives readers a glimpse into the complicated lives of young women

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Photograph by Ruth Kaplan
April 2017 / Books

Body of Work

March 27, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Melanie Little

In her new novel, Barbara Gowdy draws inspiration from private agonies

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Illustration by Mügluck
Memoir

Leaving It All on the Page

February 14, 2017February 10, 2022 - by Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill on writing her high-school love into her work

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Photograph by Guillaume Simoneau
Books / January/February 2017

Heather O’Neill at the Height of Her Literary Powers

December 13, 2016April 2, 2020 - by André Forget

Does The Lonely Hearts Hotel mark the beginning of her second act?

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Photograph by Timothy Tsui
Books

Harry Potter Lives On

August 9, 2016August 5, 2020 - by Michael LaPointe

What happens when famous literary characters outgrow their creators?

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Photograph courtesy of Brian Busby
Books

The Brexit Fix-it

June 29, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Brian Busby

How an obscure forty-year-old Canadian thriller might help alleviate a global crisis

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Photo by Ben Sutherland
Books

The Ivory Twitter

June 16, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Holger Syme

How a Shakespeare professor accidentally revolutionized academic criticism

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Illustration by Genevieve Simms
Books / July/August 2016

Poetry Slam

June 13, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Michael Lista

Cowardly critics and bad art—a Canadian codependency

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Books

What We Read: Pleasure and Disgust

March 18, 2016April 27, 2017 - by The Walrus

Walrus staff talk about what’s on their minds, desks, and nightstands

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