The Walrus Magazine - October 2018

In this issue

The great divide of gifted education, NAFTA influences what we eat, DIY bonsai training, Miriam Toews's new book, life lessons from a fat cat, and more.

Views Feed

Meet the Facebook group trying to reshape Canadian politics

9 mins

Brunch Without Borders

How NAFTA changed the way we eat

5 mins

Uncommon Sense

Some doctors say intuition can help to diagnose patients—but others are skeptical

7 mins

Class Divide

Some parents say their children need gifted-education programs. But not all kids are benefiting from the public-school streaming system

10+ mins

The Arithmetic Of Common Ground

IF VIEWED AS the overlap between two individual areas of experience, common ground can be seen as the darkened area of the Venn diagram in which all similarities are included and all differences are excluded. A couple first meets. Born within six months of one another, within the same medium-sized city, and of comparable socio-economic class, they automatically overlap somewhere between 33 to 35 percent.

10+ mins

Split Tooth

IT’S EARLY MORNING. The Frosted Flakes have grown soggy. I’m stuck staring at one of the half submerged flakes, half-crispy, half-mushy. Tap tap tap the spoon against the ceramic bowl; it seems to help shake off the sleep that refuses to lift from the top of my head. It feels fuzzy and numb. Boredom hangover. It’s pitch black outside.

9 mins

​Out Of Bounds

Award-winning author Esi Edugyan reimagines the slave narrative

7 mins

A Time To Speak

In Miriam Toews’s new novel, women in an isolated Mennonite colony debate how to move forward in the aftermath of sexual assault

9 mins

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