June 2004

The Ultimate High Ground

by Paul Webster

The U.S. is weaponizing space. Canada is firmly opposed ... but not necessarily…[more]

Letters

June 2004

by The Walrus Readers

Continental Divide Regarding Michael Adams’s “Continental Divide” (April/May): Americans, generally, I think, regard us…[more]

Food and Drink

The Millefeuille Industrial Complex

by Clara Young

A revolution in the art of confectionery is uniting chefs and architects in a search for the perfect piece of cake…[more]

Field Notes

Censorship: The Next Generation

by Matt Welch

los angeles—The First Amendment of the United States Constitution – the one prohibiting the government from…[more]

The Literary Life

Gained in Translation

by Wayne Johnston

MOST novelists who are fortunate enough to have had their novels translated into other languages are also…[more]

Field Notes

Lab Dogs

by Jake MacDonald

winnipeg—With his broad shoulders, thick blond hair, and jaunty amble, Molson Webb looks as if he must have…[more]

Art

A Dandy for Our Times

by John Bentley Mays

Jean Cocteau dined, fought, or collaborated with anyone who was anyone in avant-garde Paris. But his own art was ignored, dismissed as the work of a frivolous queen. A new retrospective hopes to change that…[more]

Field Notes

Stopping the Presses

by Marian Botsford Fraser

harare—It is disconcerting to visit a newspaper with no newsroom, but surreal experiences are not uncommon in…[more]

Method

The Bookbinder

by Ethan Gilsdorf

EDWIGE Birlouez won’t participate in her town’s medieval fair. She won’t don velvet robes or. » View Photo Gallery «

Film

Unrepentant

by Gare Joyce

Between writing the classic Hollywood novel What Makes Sunny Run? in 1941 and the classic Hollywood move On the Waterfront in 1954, Budd Schulberg did one thing for which he’s still notorious, and resolutely unapologetic: in 1951, he named names bef…[more]

Sightings

Slippery Slopes

by Ken Alexander

IT was a tough winter for farmers in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. Heavy snowfall combined with frigid…[more]

Memoir

The Book of Bob

by Bruce Grierson

It’s been said my grandfather helped build modern-day Korea. He left a subtler kind of legacy for me.…[more]

Houshang’s Promise

by Larry Krotz

He was kidnapped and tortured, his multi-million-dollar business was destroyed, and his family threatened. Now, as a Canadian citizen, Houshang Bouzari is going after the government of Iran through the civil court system…[more]

Detail

The Beauty in Beasts

by Anna Torma

“IN Hungary, when I was a child, the women in almost every household embroidered. They embellished objects…[more]

Field Notes

Non-Profit Mercenaries

by Madelaine Drohan

london—I knew right away he was the man I had arranged to meet. It was the way he stood – ramrod straight –…[more]