July/August 2007

"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski

July/August 2007

3D Vision

by Taylor Owen and Patrick Travers

Can Canada reconcile its defence, diplomacy, and development objectives in Afghanistan? …[more]

photography by Martin Adler

Moneybags

by Bruce Livesey

Poor Conrad Black. Or wait, he's not so poor. Today's super-rich are as wealthy as Rockefeller, but they may not be as generous.…[more]

The Very Strange Case of Hussein Ali Sumaida

by Andrew Mitrovica and Roxana Olivera

A double agent for Saddam’s notorious Mukhabarat and Israel’s Mossad has returned to Canada. How did he get here? Did Canada once deliver him into torture? And has Sumaida finally found sanctuary?…[more]

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The Counterpart

by Nadia Kalman

Aleksey Alexandrovich Smoletkin - the former Gorky Professor of Arts and Letters at Leningrad State, the father of a…[more]

Online Exclusive

A Gallery of Love Songs, Illustrated

by Matthew McKinnon

Click on the name of the song to hear an excerpt. In the museums of the future, there had. » View Photo Gallery «

Fiction

The Principles of Exile

by Camilla Gibb

My mother has sent me out to Saint-Denis by Métro, because Alsan, the cleaner at her office, has told her that the best…[more]

Sightings

Generation WWW

by Ken Alexander

The new world order, as described in dispatches from the culture front, reveals itself as follows: so long as it is…[more]

July/August 2007 Bibliographies

by The Walrus Staff

More information on topics presented in the July/August 2007 issue…[more]

Field Notes

Dreaming a New Myth

by Andrew Westoll

A lost jungle cave reveals a secret…[more]

Literature

In Paris with Mavis Gallant, Writer

by Randy Boyagoda

“M’excuser, monsieur. Je cherche des livres par Mavis Gallant. Où peux-je les trouver?” I asked…[more]

Detail

Extraction

by Edward Burtynsky

Canada started as a rough-and-tumble company, but is the march of progress now killing the country?…[more]

Politics

Charisma

by Jeff Ryan

Do we want our political leaders to be sexy and playful, or are we content with being bored? …[more]

Field Notes

Cowboy Camp

by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Novelist Guy Vanderhaeghe saddles up …[more]

Letters

July/August 2007

by The Walrus Readers

Tough Nut Stephen Williams is to be commended for [more]

Drama

Big Ticket

by Jim Garrard

ACT ONE and ACT TWO…[more]

National Magazine Award Nominee

Bob Dylan Goes Tubing

by Marni Jackson

NMA nominee: Humour…[more]

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