September 2008
"The first disappointments had passed: no ghostly centipedes, no strange-eared octopi, no clever adaptations to the lightlessness and the cold - just barren death."
- Stephen Marche, in "Tom Cruise at Lake Vostok"
September 2008
The Anti-Socialite
by Denis Seguin
Life with an Asperger’s child…[more]illustration by Vänskap
Fiction
Tom Cruise at Lake Vostok
by Stephen Marche
Researchers in Antarctica find Hollywood ghosts…[more]
Sporting Life
Sink or Swim
by Katharine Dunn
Pierre Lafontaine’s bid to revive Swimming Canada…[more]
More Stories in this issue
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A Turkish Town, Waiting for Destruction
by Carolyn Drake
Images of Hasankeyf, Turkey.. » View Photo Gallery «
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The World’s ‘Best’ Car Bombers?
by Christopher Watt
Q&A with ex-CIA agent Robert Baer on terror, the Iran crisis, and Hezbollah blasts …[more]
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Photo Gallery: Second Place Finishes
by Sandy Nicholson
When losing is still winning. Sort of.. » View Photo Gallery «
Law
The People’s Court
by Alex Hutchinson
Doctors are paid for through our taxes. Why not lawyers? Alex Hutchinson examines a case for universal legal care…[more]
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I Try to Help
by Vezi Tayyeb
Some small talk at a Dubai Starbucks and then, unexpectedly, Ihab gets serious…[more]
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History at Invesco Field
by Salimah Y. Ebrahim
Have Canadians ever been this passionate?. » View Photo Gallery «
Book Review
Review: Revenant
by Paul Isaacs
The romantic side of Anglesey, and other things not featured in this novel…[more]
Book Review
Review: The Wrecking Crew
by Izida Zorde
Thomas Frank’s follow-up to What’s the Matter with Kansas…[more]
Health
Cellphone Games
by Melinda Wenner
Does radio frequency radiation pose a cancer risk? Researchers in the largest study to date won’t say…[more]
International Affairs
A Land Apart
by Christopher Frey
Can Turkey fulfill its promise as a bridge between East and West when its own peoples stand divided?…[more]
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Q&A: Pasha Malla
by The Shelf, Walrus Blogs
Our books blogger interviews Canadian writer Pasha Malla…[more]
Book Review
Review: What Is America?
by Daniel Baird
America’s genocidal history, as discussed in Ronald Wright’s new book…[more]
Field Notes
Do Avatars Dream of Electric Streets?
by Mitch Moxley
A virtual fantasia of China…[more]
Letters
September 2008
by The Walrus Readers
On foreign doctors, prime ministerial biographers, militant cyclists, and the fascinating Doukhobors…[more]
Art
The Renaissance of Cute
by Nick Mount
How the street brought pleasure back to art — for free. » View Photo Gallery «
Society
Frontier Families
by Matthew Hays
The complexities of queer parenthood. » View Photo Gallery «
Shelley Ambrose, Executive Director of the Walrus Foundation,
talks about how you can support The Walrus. Email Shelley for
more details at shelley.ambrose@walrusmagazine.com.
(Video courtesy of BNN.)
July/Aug 2009
IN THE NEWS:
International Affairs
Iran’s Quiet Revolution
An article from September 2006 by Deborah Campbell, on the burgeoning dissent in Iran.
From the archives: April 2008
