EXPLAINED: 35 | Rare Historical Photos

Why Don’t Millennials Have Hobbies?

I sought the help of an algorithm to figure out how to spend my free time. It made me question my generation’s relationship with leisure

The Walrus · Aug 19, 2022

Much Ado about Hummus: The Fight for Bragging Rights over a Middle Eastern Dip

From beet to butterscotch, how far can hummus travel from its origins and still be hummus?

The Walrus · Aug 18, 2022

The Fountain of Youth

If uninhibited creativity is a young person’s game, the nominees for this year’s Amazon Canada Youth Short Story category prize have more than a few nuggets of wisdom for their literary peers.

The Walrus · Aug 18, 2022

Letters to the Editor: July/August 2022

On the future of organ donation, death classes, and hunting for child care

The Walrus · Aug 11, 2022

Fighting AI with AI: The Battle against Deepfakes

Realistic, computer-generated faces are more widespread than ever. How do we tell what’s true and what’s not?

The Walrus · Aug 11, 2022

What I Learned as a Teenage Hip Hop Critic for Pitchfork

At seventeen, I spread the gospel of underground rap to a wider audience. But BIPOC music journalists are no longer afforded opportunities like mine

The Walrus · Aug 10, 2022

How to Humanize and Accept Survivor Stories

S3E29 of The Conversation Piece

The Walrus · Aug 10, 2022

Brink

the moon in your chest squeezing / salt water down your untouched flesh

The Walrus · Aug 5, 2022

Tears of Things

how I desired, / beyond all reason, those unreachable sweets

The Walrus · Aug 5, 2022

The Click

Sometimes we look younger than we are, sometimes much older, depending on how we’ve chosen to live with what we’ve seen

The Walrus · Aug 5, 2022