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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
Rock Bottom
by Noah Richler
With the seas nearly barren, should Digby Neck, Nova Scotia, settle for selling the earth? NMA Silver Medal: Still-life Photography, Nominee: Investigative Reporting…[more]photography by Russell Monk
Memoir
Test of the Heart
by Marsha Barber
This is the story of a heart operation. It’s also the story of a marriage.…[more]
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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 &…[more]
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 «
Online Exclusive
Portrait Gallery: Digby Neck, Nova Scotia
by Russell Monk
This exclusive online gallery features bonus photos from Noah Richler’s
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,…[more]
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Bonus Photos for “Unlimited Editions”
by Birthe Piontek
More photos of John Meier’s book collection. » View Photo Gallery «
Books
Not So Secret
by Sylvia Fraser
Plundering Eastern religions for enlightenment and profit…[more]
Visual Art
The Garden of Subjection
by John Bentley Mays
For Vancouver pioneer Jeff Wall, politics and beauty do mix…[more]
Walrus Reads
Review — White Rapids
by Jared Bland
White Rapids by Pascal Blanchet Drawn & Quarterly (2007), 156 pp. Notwithstanding…[more]
International Affairs
Mission Not Yet Accomplished
by Linda McQuaig
How Iraq figures in Big Oil’s dreams…[more]
Sightings
Thinking Inside the Big Box
by Ken Alexander
It is an old story, often told: Wal-Mart, with its predatory pricing, strategic positioning, and, despite recent…[more]
International Affairs
Road of Fire
by Hugh Graham
The war in Afghanistan will be won or lost on Highway 1…[more]
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…[more]
Field Notes
If It Bleeds Like a Duck...
by Margo Pfeiff
A Laurentian twist on a French delicacy…[more]
National Magazine Award Nominee
Unlimited Editions
by Timothy Taylor
A collector’s obsession with award-winning books. NMA nominee: Arts & Entertainment, Still-life Photography…[more]
Walrus Reads
Review — La Sagouine
by Marianne Apostolides
La Sagouine by Antonine Maillet, translated by Wayne Grady Goose Lane (2007), 142…[more]
Books
One Hundred Years at Forty
by Randy Boyagoda
Gabriel García Márquez’s sumptuous and tragic vision of the modern world…[more]
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