Friday, May 9, 2008
April 2008
"I was introduced as follows: 'We will hear first from
Barry Campbell, MP for St. Paul's, who will get us off.'"
-- Barry Campbell, in Darkness Visible."
April 2008
War Child: Q&A
by Daniel Aldana Cohen
An interview with Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child Canada…[more]
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Michael Pollan: Q&A
by Jared Bland
The Walrus’s book blogger Jared Bland talks with the author of the bestselling In Defense of Food. …[more]
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Shopping for a Marriage
by Andrea Gummo
First place entry in the 2007 Student Field Notes Contest…[more]
More Stories in this issue
National Affairs
Too Few Hilliers
by Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang
The general goes where Ottawa mandarins fear to tread…[more]
Walrus Reads
Book Review: Nikolski
by Marianne Ackerman
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederhendler) Knopf Canada (2008), 290…[more]
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Latrine Graffiti, Kuwait and Afghanistan
by Steve Featherstone
American soldiers’ restroom graffiti in Afghanistan and Kuwait. » View Photo Gallery «
Fiction
Opera
by Janice Galloway
Splashing and gurgles in the throat. Listen. Almost a racket, a radio slipping out of true. But it’s not that,…[more]
Politics
Politics as Unusual: Darkness Visible
by Barry Campbell
The continuing saga of Barry Campbell, MP…[more]
Education
Failure to Fail
by Jay Teitel
Why are students no longer flunking university? Is it their brains, or their wallets? …[more]
You Are Here
Blue Jeans: A Style for Every Story
by Claire Hastings
The details behind the denim, from ninety years ago to now…[more]
Imaginings
Death on the Installation Plan
by Jeremy Keehn
“We’ll consider your contract fulfilled in the event of your death.”…[more]
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Life Going On
by Emilie Cameron
Second place entry in the 2007 Student Field Notes Contest…[more]
Walrus Reads
Book Review: Orphic Politics
by Priscilla Uppal
Orphic Politics by Tim Lilburn McClelland & Stewart (2008), 86 pp. It can be very…[more]
Health
Unsafe Practices
by Alanna Mitchell
Can the Masai reconcile tradition with the realities of HIV?…[more]
Field Notes
Close to the Noise
by Mara Hvistendahl
Motorcycle nostalgists in China. » View Photo Gallery «
Nature
The Caribou Hunter
by Christine Pountney
A city girl learns how it feels to pull the trigger…[more]
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Salt Spring Island Lamb
by Barbara Stewart
Third place entry in the 2007 Student Field Notes Contest…[more]
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More Recipes from Vancouver Island
by Edward Tuson, Sinclair Philip and Mara Jernigan
Exclusive recipes from three Vancouver chefs…[more]
Books
Spiritual Excercises
by Daniel Baird
Religion remains a powerful force, according to Charles Taylor…[more]
Walrus Reads
Book Review: Blackouts
by Jared Bland
Blackouts by Craig Boyko McClelland & Stewart (2008), 317 pp. “Mr. Bearden does not have a wife,”…[more]
Walrus Reads
Book Review: The Toss of a Lemon
by Daniel Baird
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan Random House Canada (2008), 616pp. In the…[more]
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