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December 2008
"It was at this point that a routine prisoner transfer started looking like a barroom collaboration between Agatha Christie and Louis L'Amour." -- John Vaillant, in "The Lynching of Louie Sam."
December 2008
The Archipelago of Fear
by Charles Montgomery
Are fortification and foreign aid making Kabul more dangerous?photographs by James Whitlow Delano
Health
Selective Testing
by Alexander Gelfand
Does Big Pharma stand to gain the most from new genetic tests for drug therapy?
Letters
Letters: December 2008
by The Walrus Readers
Our Olympics swimming coverage makes one reader “sad.”
More Stories in this issue
Walrus Cookbook
Mincemeat Pie
by Jared Bland, Danielle Groen & Brian Morgan
Your mother’s Christmas pudding recipe is all wrong.
Dance
Bare-Naked Soul
by Alexandra Redgrave
Montreal choreographer Dave St-Pierre pushes his dancers to their limits
From the Blogs
Q&A: Joseph Boyden
by Jared Bland
An interview with the winner of the 2008 Giller Prize
Book Review
Review: Distantly Related To Freud
by Marianne Ackerman
“Sex was power, as long as you kept your head.”
Field Notes
The Birdman of Hastings Track
by Peter Valing
Pigeon pursuit in the Lower Mainlands of BC
Literature
The Last of the Wild Jews
by Charles Foran
Is it the end of an era for Jewish-American writing?
History
The Lynching of Louie Sam
by John Vaillant
In 1884, an American mob brought frontier justice to the Canadian border.
Book Review
Review: The Muskwa Assemblage
by Jared Bland
Don McKay’s alternative to cow placenta sculpture
Field Notes
Twilight in Tacheles
by Chris Turner
A legendary East Berlin art collective, fifteen years on
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