Summer Reading | The Walrus

The face of a woman is in the foreground. She is lying down and looking up. In the background is a forest landscape at night with mountains and stars visible. The silhouette of a creature peeks out above the treetops.

Fiction / July/August 2021

Giganto

July 1, 2021June 30, 2021 - by Charlotte Gill

Giganto is known by various names: almasty, migyhur, meh-teh, dzu-teh. Around here, the common term is a bastardization of a word from a Coast Salish language, Sásq’ets, or “wild man.”

A family with two parents and five children hold hands around a table. A bowl is in front of each person and the parents’ clasped hands are large in the foreground.

Fiction / July/August 2021

Little Sanctuary

June 25, 2021 - by Randy Boyagoda

The bus sped past abandoned houses, burned-out cars, skinny cows, masked and bandaged people running to the road at the sight of a vehicle, any vehicle, and others running away

Arts & Culture / Fiction / July/August 2019

The Space Between Trees

June 28, 2019December 16, 2020 - by Benjamin Hertwig

In this short story, a former female soldier leaves one macho world for another

Arts & Culture / First Person / July/August 2019

What I Learned From a Summer of Not Catching a Single Fish

June 24, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Marni Jackson

Don’t use deli meat as bait, for starters

Arts & Culture / Fiction / July/August 2019

Super Dads

June 19, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

A short story about what happens when three men visit a theme park where nearly everyone is stoned

Books

Summer Verses

June 17, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Damian Rogers

Introducing the Poetry Editor’s Note, which provides context to poems published in the magazine

First Person / July/August 2008

Summertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging

July 12, 2008June 1, 2021 - by Guy Gavriel Kay

There’s something intriguing about the currently received notion of summer as a season for escape. Once upon a very different time, if you were escaping in summer it was very …