October 2007

"I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink."
--Joe DiMaggio

October 2007

The Chinese Dust Bowl

by Benoit Aquin (photographer) and Patrick Alleyn (writer)

In response to the rapid desertification of its once-fertile steppes and oases, China is undertaking the most ambitious environmental restoration in history. NMA nominee: Photojournalism & Photo Essay

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Education

The Mystery of Teaching

by Rick Salutin

In some form, most of us teach. Here’s why we should do it more often…[more]

Feature Interview

Eat or Be Eaten

by Roger Martin

Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, tells Walrus editor Ken Alexander that in the global economy Canada has one choice: be a little guppy or a big fish…[more]

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Dominick’s Fish

by R.M. Vaughan

The things we leave behind when we die. NMA nominee: One of a Kind…[more]

Politics

Blown Into Proportion

by Daniel Aldana Cohen

On the eve of Ontario’s referendum, a young voter makes the case for overhauling the country’s electoral system…[more]

Field Notes

Campesino Justice

by Nik Steinberg

A Mexican experiment that went too well…[more]

Walrus Reads

Review: Late Nights On Air

by Marni Jackson

Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay McClelland & Stewart (2007), 376 pp. Elizabeth Hay’s previous…[more]

Drama

Twelve Angry Maids

by Craig Taylor

Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad brings forgotten corners of myth to light on stage…[more]

Tunnelling Through Time

by Jeremy Keehn

An artistic look at life underground, from the Paleolithic to now.…[more]

Poetry

Oh Canada (as sung on Vancouver Island)

by Karen Connelly

Another spring cracks open on the rocks as the seagull drops living mussels on stone shore, alights to tear the flesh. I know the fierce…[more]

Television

Wire Transfer

by John Turner

David Simon’s The Wire is at the vanguard of a storytelling revolution that is changing the way we watch TV…[more]

National Magazine Award Nominee

No Refuge

by Andrew Mitrovica

For challenging a policy that discriminated against certain refugees, a federal employee’s career was ruined. Despite being cleared, he still awaits justice. NMA nominee: Politics and Public Interest…[more]