The Best of The Walrus

I don’t want to be told what’s going to happen and I definitely don’t want to be told what the book is “about”

Librarians once worried about shushing patrons. Now they have to deal with mental health episodes, the homelessness crisis, and random violence

Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?

Norval Morrisseau was one of the most famous Indigenous artists anywhere. Then the fakes of his works surfaced—and kept coming

Marie Kondo's decluttering dominance is over. Make way for maximalism, where the more stuff, the merrier

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

Celebrity chefs, food writers, and home cooks have sneered at pre-cut produce. They’re dismissing those of us with disabilities

A prevalent narrative asserts that the tents, the despair, the not waking up are about mental illness and addiction. That narrative crumbles after the first questions

Dag Aabye is eighty-one, lives in an old school bus on a mountain, and is pushing his body to its absolute limits

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

Today, people talk about seeing a therapist like they’re going to the dentist. But our compassion around mental health still excludes the people who need it most

«In mental health discourse, there is a strong underlying message that mental health is one’s own responsibility (self-care, expensive therapy, psychiatric intervention, and so on) and that mental unwellness—including mental illness—is something to be overcome, followed by a return to productivity within a capitalist world.»

Fads come and go, but how to create a toy that stands the test of time is the billion-dollar question

How the under-appreciated art of idleness can transform the world

Libraries can't escape the push for digitization, but we still need actual books on shelves

Machines are putting out astonishingly human-like writing. What does that mean for the future of art?

The cigarette industry had its Erin Brockovich moment in the nineties. How has it managed to survive?