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Local artists have put “fragments of the real,” such as interviews, artifacts, or witnesses, at the core of the documentary theatre world, says Hervé Guay, a scholar who co-edited a book about the genre’s recent bloom in Quebec.

When she was younger, writer Mireille Silcoff drank Diet Pepsi as part of a routine of “borderline-anorexic self-perfectionism.” Diet Pepsi was not a place of health but of decadent control.

“We grew up with the Body Shop, but it didn’t grow up with us,” esthetician and beauty brand developer Alicia Lartey told Refinery29. As Lisa Whittington-Hill writes, the retailer’s failure to evolve is causing the company to lose out on millennial and Gen Z shoppers.

"We are five to ten years from a partial artificial womb for humans, according to estimates."

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Inside the latest edition of The Walrus Reads: tick troubles, bad biopics, and debates on deafness.

Writer Marcello Di Cintio joined a group of activists who perform an annual walk across the US–Mexico border in honour of migrants who died making the journey. Here, he reflects on what the pilgrimage means—and what it doesn’t mean: 

The future of hybrid work is unclear, but a few key events serve as indicators for what is to come. And it looks like it’s here to stay—whether employers like it or not, writes Jon Peirce in his new book, Work Less: New Strategies for a Changing Workplace.

As India fights an information war during an election, the manipulation of reality and erosion of confidence amongst online users are valid concerns. But the biggest risk could come from damaging laws rather than dangerous tech, writes Mitali Mukherjee. 

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