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
Latrine Graffiti, Kuwait and Afghanistan
by Steve Featherstone
American soldiers’ restroom graffiti in Afghanistan and Kuwait
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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.
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Walrus Reads
Book Review: Blackouts
by Jared Bland
Blackouts by Craig Boyko McClelland & Stewart (2008), 317 pp. “Mr. Bearden does not have a wife,”
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
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More Recipes from Vancouver Island
by Edward Tuson, Sinclair Philip and Mara Jernigan
Exclusive recipes from three Vancouver chefs
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Life Going On
by Emilie Cameron
Second place entry in the 2007 Student Field Notes Contest
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,
National Affairs
Too Few Hilliers
by Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang
The general goes where Ottawa mandarins fear to tread
Field Notes
Close to the Noise
by Mara Hvistendahl
Motorcycle nostalgists in China. » View Photo Gallery «
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Blue Jeans: A Style for Every Story
by Claire Hastings
The details behind the denim, from ninety years ago to now
Education
Failure to Fail
by Jay Teitel
Why are students no longer flunking university? Is it their brains, or their wallets?
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Shopping for a Marriage
by Andrea Gummo
First place entry in the 2007 Student Field Notes Contest
Imaginings
Death on the Installation Plan
by Jeremy Keehn
“We’ll consider your contract fulfilled in the event of your death.”
Walrus Reads
Book Review: Orphic Politics
by Priscilla Uppal
Orphic Politics by Tim Lilburn McClelland & Stewart (2008), 86 pp. It can be very
Books
Spiritual Exercises
by Daniel Baird
Religion remains a powerful force, according to Charles Taylor
Politics
Politics as Unusual: Darkness Visible
by Barry Campbell
The continuing saga of Barry Campbell, MP
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War Child: Q&A
by Daniel Aldana Cohen
An interview with Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child Canada
Health
Unsafe Practices
by Alanna Mitchell
Can the Masai reconcile tradition with the realities of HIV?
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Salt Spring Island Lamb
by Barbara Stewart
Third place entry in the 2007 Student Field Notes Contest
Walrus Reads
Book Review: Nikolski
by Marianne Ackerman
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederhendler) Knopf Canada (2008), 290
