December 2007
"I am afraid my subject is rather an exciting one, and as I don't like excitement, I shall approach it in a gentle, timid, roundabout way."
--Max Beerbohm
December 2007
Thinking Inside the Big Box
by Ken Alexander
It is an old story, often told: Wal-Mart, with its predatory pricing, s
More Stories in this issue
International Affairs
Mission Not Yet Accomplished
by Linda McQuaig
How Iraq figures in Big Oil’s dreams
Photo Essay
To Die For
by Fabrica
Activist design collective Fabrica uses icons of consumer culture to contrast lives in the affluent West with those in war-torn Darfur. » View Photo Gallery «
Visual Art
The Garden of Subjection
by John Bentley Mays
For Vancouver pioneer Jeff Wall, politics and beauty do mix
Memoir
Test of the Heart
by Marsha Barber
This is the story of a heart operation. It’s also the story of a marriage.
Imaginings
Lost and Found
by Anne Fenn
posted on mysoul.com: 20/08/07 Dear Unborn Child, The other day, my yoga teacher was talking about
National Magazine Award Nominee
Unlimited Editions
by Timothy Taylor
A collector’s obsession with award-winning books. NMA nominee: Arts & Entertainment, Still-life Photography
Online Exclusive
Bonus Photos for “Unlimited Editions”
by Birthe Piontek
More photos of John Meier’s book collection. » View Photo Gallery «
National Magazine Award Silver Medal
The Autobiography of an Idea
by Rick Salutin
Rethinking the Holocaust in light of 9/11, my mentor, and my dad. NMA Silver Medal: Personal Journalism; NMA Nominee: Essays
International Affairs
Road of Fire
by Hugh Graham
The war in Afghanistan will be won or lost on Highway 1
Walrus Reads
Review — White Rapids
by Jared Bland
White Rapids by Pascal Blanchet Drawn & Quarterly (2007), 156 pp. Notwithstanding
Walrus Reads
Review — La Sagouine
by Marianne Apostolides
La Sagouine by Antonine Maillet, translated by Wayne Grady Goose Lane (2007), 142
Walrus Reads
Review — Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis
by Daniel Aldana Cohen
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water by Maude Barlow, McClelland &
National Magazine Award Silver Medal
Rock Bottom
by Noah Richler
With the seas nearly barren, should Digby Neck, Nova Scotia, settle for selling the earth?
Walrus Reads
Review — Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan
by Ken Alexander
Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants Kevin Patterson and Jane Warren,
Books
One Hundred Years at Forty
by Randy Boyagoda
Gabriel García Márquez’s sumptuous and tragic vision of the modern world
