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Arts & Culture

Hope Is Good. Disappointment Is Better

November 19, 2020November 20, 2020 - by Steven Heighton

What the best novels teach us about the virtues of disillusionment

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Arts & Culture

The Author Who Shaped the Way We Represent Disability

October 23, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Meagan Gillmore

Mainstream entertainment rarely allows people with disabilities to exist as we are. Jean Little’s work taught me there’s no shame in writing about our experiences

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COVID-19 / First Person / July/August 2020

If a Book Is Published in a Pandemic, Will Anyone Read It?

May 21, 2020August 14, 2020 - by Katrina Onstad

We already undervalue our artists. COVID-19 has only made it worse

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Books

When Male Writers Confront Toxic Masculinity

January 22, 2020January 23, 2020 - by Philip Sayers

It’s easier than ever for men to speak the language of feminism. It’s harder to act like they mean it

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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

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Arts & Culture / Music

When Sexism Makes for a Catchy Song

November 11, 2019 - by Tariq Hussain

My songwriting students pen misogynistic lyrics. But the music industry tells them that’s okay

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Language

The Power of a Good Sentence

July 13, 2019July 17, 2019 - by Douglas Glover

Why writing one isn’t as easy as you think

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Books / Fiction / October 2018

The Arithmetic of Common Ground

October 12, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Scott Randall

A short story about the remarkable unlikelihood that anyone finds a mate

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Arts & Culture / June 2018

The Future of Biography

July 13, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Charlotte Gray

Social media is breathing new life into an esteemed literary genre

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First Person / May 2018

Why I Made Up the Role Model of My Dreams

May 13, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Heidi Sopinka

In 2009, I left my children with their father and flew to Mexico City to hunt down the last living Surrealist

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