OUR NEWEST ISSUE! July/Aug 2009
The Case for Europe
by Nick Fraser
As Europe swings to the right, BBC journalist Nick Fraser asks: is the EU worth saving?…[more]More in this issue…
Latest Features
Books
On Hugh MacLennan’s Watch
by Nick Mount
Hugh MacLennan’s bestseller The Watch That Ends the Night turns fifty…[more]
Profile
At The Gastown Riot
by Leigh Kamping-Carder
Vancouver artist Stan Douglas reimagines a neighbourhood’s troubled past…[more]
Environment
Decomposting Bodies
by James Glave
What’s the greenest way to dispose of human remains?…[more]
From The Blogs
The Haulout
Audio: Just East of Broadway
by Paul Isaacs
Listen to a song from Walrus contributor Nick Hune-Brown's new musical, Just…[more]
Sportstrotter
Le Tour de France, avec Lance
by Andrew Braithwaite
Lance Armstrong returns to the Tour De France, as our Parisian sports…[more]
Four-Colour Words
From Page to, um, Page
by Jon Evans
Walrus writer Jon Evans talks about the creation of his new comic book for…[more]
Online Exclusive
Q&A: Camille Paglia
by David Balzer
“We’re in a period of what Northrop Frye would have called the winter phase of irony and satire.”…[more]
More in this issue
Comics
The Walrus Presents...
by Jason Sherman and David Parkins
Karlheinz Schreiber lubricates Canada…[more]
Profile
Grand Slam Chief
by Patrick White
Does Phil Fontaine have what it takes to lead the First Nations’ next generation?…[more]
Online Exclusive
An Arboreal History
by Lauchie Reid
According to the Guild of St. Luke: an illustration series. » View Photo Gallery «
Ghost Story
Real Estate
by Rivka Galchen
A week or so later, I had a repeat of the phantom string cheese episode…[more]
Letters
Letters: July/Aug 2009
by The Walrus Readers
Letters in response to the June 2009 issue of The Walrus.…[more]
Online Exclusive
Q&A: Camille Paglia
by David Balzer
“We’re in a period of what Northrop Frye would have called the winter phase of irony and satire.”…[more]
Economics
Canada’s Merchant Banker
by John Lorinc
Mark Carney’s battle to bring Canada’s banking system to a tapped-out world…[more]
Photography
Photo: Niagara Falls, 1840
by The Walrus
How academics found the first photograph to be taken in Canada…[more]
Fiction
Three Tales of Terror
by The Walrus
Three new horror stories by Rivka Galchen, Lee Henderson, and Stephen Marche …[more]
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note
by John Macfarlane
Introducing the July/August 2009 issue of The Walrus.…[more]
Theatre
Head and Heart
by Misha Aster
Director Robert Carsen brings a Canadian temperament to the world’s great opera houses…[more]
Poetry
Louis Slotin You Will Not Turn Forty (after Ted Hughes)
by Michael Lista
A new poem by Michael Lista…[more]
Religion
Enter The Holy Now
by Christopher Frey
How African Pentacostalism is commercializing global Christianity …[more]
Environment
An Inconvenient Talk
by Chris Turner
Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age…[more]
Memoir
Sibling Rivalry Redux
by Georgie Binks
As parents grow old, the children who care for them don’t always grow up…[more]
Western
The True Sorrows of Calamity Jane
by Joseph Boyden
“There shall be no drinking and no cussing at the funeral of any man,” he whined…[more]
Shelley Ambrose, Executive Director of the Walrus Foundation,
talks about how you can support The Walrus. Email Shelley for
more details at shelley.ambrose@walrusmagazine.com.
(Video courtesy of BNN.)
July/Aug 2009
IN THE NEWS:
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Canadian Politics 101
From the archives: every Walrus article on Canadian party politics, including Marci Macdonald's award winning profile of Stephen Harper.
From the archives: October 2007
