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Coronavirus Toys Are Going Viral

April 8, 2021April 9, 2021 - by Anne Thériault

Plague doctor plushies and COVID-19 collectables are flying off the shelves. Why are we drawn to cutesified versions of the things that scare us most?

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

World

The Lego Effect

July 29, 2014June 15, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

Sailing the high seas with the toy that is as ubiquitous as water

April 2014 / Society

Block by Block

March 17, 2014January 7, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

How Lego pieced together modernism