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The Walrus, 1 Sep 2026

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ArticleHow did the search for a north­ern route change what the world thought it knew?

Long before European explorers sought a route between two great oceans, Inuit knew these north­ern waters as home, nav­ig­at­ing by sea ice, stars, and story. Their deep know­ledge shaped every map that fol­lowed. When European exped­i­tions arrived in...

How did the search for a north­ern route change what the world thought it knew?

ArticleArt by Justin Poulsen

Justin Poulsen is a con­cep­tual still-life pho­to­grapher, dir­ector, and mini­atur­ist artist. He has cre­ated art for the New York Times, the Guard­ian, and Wired.

Art by Justin Poulsen

ArticleFalse Impres­sion

In 2021, Farnoosh Talaee colaunched her first com­mer­cial art gal­lery, Mayten’s, with her then hus­band, Ira­nian Amer­ican art col­lector and busi­ness­man Hir­bod Human. Talaee pro­motes her­self as a cham­pion of over­looked and...

False Impres­sion

ArticleThe Inter­net Is Bad and Get­ting Worse

The best thing about the inter­net is find­ing a world richer than your own. If your homet­own is too bor­ing, isol­ated, or con­ser­vat­ive, then com­munity might be bet­ter found online, espe­cially if you hap­pen to be queer. That’s how it was for...

The Inter­net Is Bad and Get­ting Worse

Article“That’s Not Me”

In janu­ary of 2025, Lucy and her boy­friend, Steve, were wait­ing at his house for their friend Bobby. They planned to drive to a roller rink out­side Toronto and ring in Steve’s eight­eenth birth­day (I’m using pseud­onyms to pro­tect their...

“That’s Not Me”