What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway? | The Walrus
Oct 9, 2024 · When pressed to describe what an epigraph does, writers tend to reach for metaphor. In her newsletter Before and After the Book Deal, Courtney Maum calls them, decadently, “apéritifs” and “a spritz of fragrance in a large room.”Thomas Swick conjures grandiosity in Literary Hub: an epigraph is “a ceremonial gate ushering us into the realm of the author,” a book devoid of one “a ...
Word Flower - The Walrus
Unravel an array of words from a central letter in Word Flower. Strategize to uncover words of four or more letters, with bonus points for finding pangrams using all given letters.
Trump’s Return Could Make Trudeau Look Smaller than Ever
Nov 15, 2024 · T his raises the question: Could the Conservative “big tent” divide if things go awry with Trump at the helm?It’s possible, but data from 2020 showed 41 percent of Conservative supporters favoured Trump over Biden, so this phenomenon isn’t new—and yet the Conservative coalition has endured. If we ask, instead, which leader people think is best suited to handle a second Trump mandate ...
WordroW - The Walrus
Enjoy a Wordle-inspired challenge with WordroW, where you can flex your word skills by using words shorter or longer than five letters, and even multiple words to crack the puzzle.
Submission Guidelines - The Walrus
The Walrus magazine publishes original reporting, essays, fiction, poetry, and visual essays in the fields of politics, the arts, science and the environment, health, business, sports, technology, and international affairs.
Would the Conservatives Really Make Housing Affordable?
Sep 18, 2024 · I n late 2023, Pierre Poilievre released a widely circulated mini documentary, titled Housing Hell: How We Got Here and How We Get Out, that highlighted the extent to which home and rental prices had increased in the years since Justin Trudeau came to power.. His criticisms are not without foundation. Housing affordability has deteriorated sharply between 2015, when the Trudeau Liberals were ...
If Pierre Poilievre Wins | The Walrus
Sep 18, 2024 · F or over a year, Pierre Poilievre and his team have been putting out a remarkably disciplined message: we are not the Liberals. Campaigns are about contrast, and in its dark appraisal of the country’s current state, the Conservative Party has honed a rhetoric that offers frustrated Canadians an alternative.
Poilievre’s Dangerous Dance with MAGA-Style Politics
Sep 18, 2024 · But a variety of factors has pushed to one side the files that would normally define the US–Canada relationship. The North American Free Trade Agreement was renegotiated under the first Trump term; plans to modernize the North American Aerospace Defense Command are already in the works; and the huge influx of asylum seekers crossing the land border into Canada has largely been halted.
Games - The Walrus
The Walrus is located within the bounds of Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit. This land is also the traditional territory of the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples.
The Truth about Wanting to Die
Aug 6, 2019 · Stopping at the downtown Toronto office to pick up some things on my way home, I did what later felt like the first dumb thing. An acquaintance—someone I’d met once who had subsequently added me on Facebook and with whom I’d exchanged muted messages during periods of mutual insomnia—struck up the most casual of “how you doing” online conversations.