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Arts & Culture

The Best Books of the Decade

December 23, 2019December 24, 2019 - by The Walrus Staff

The Walrus asked contributors and staff to pick their favourite titles of the past ten years

Arts & Culture

The Decade in Arts & Culture

December 12, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From Leonard Cohen’s darker legacy to art’s obsession with dead young women, here are the culture conversations that helped define Canada

A girl with black hair reads a book while sitting under a tree.

The End: How We Die Now

What Anne of Green Gables Taught Me about Grief

May 29, 2019July 9, 2019 - by Jen Sookfong Lee

When my father was sick and I was left to navigate a new relationship with my mother, I turned to one red-headed rebel

Illustration of a Gloved Hand Passing a Book Between Prison Bars

First Person / January/February 2018

I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant

January 4, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Robbie Dillon

The one thing that criminals and philosophers share is a sense of being an outsider

Arts & Culture

The Case Against Reading Everything

December 13, 2017January 6, 2020 - by Jason Guriel

Writing instructors preach exposure to different voices and styles. They are wrong

Books

Audiobook Anxiety and What Constitutes ‘Real’ Reading

June 26, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Shannon Tien

Romanticizing the printed word ignores all of the other benefits storytelling can offer

Arts & Culture / Web Exclusives

The Side Effects of Reading Poetry

November 28, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Anita Lahey

Consuming poems can come with unforeseen consequences

Books / Web Exclusives

Bush Politics

August 11, 2015December 18, 2019 - by Cea Sunrise Person

Power struggles as family affairs

Books / March 2015

Choose Your Own Ending

February 23, 2015November 20, 2019 - by Michael LaPointe

Why there are so many books about death and dying

April 2012 / Cities

Stacked

April 12, 2012January 10, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Printed books may be dwindling, but libraries across Canada are getting along fine without them