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July 2009

At The Gastown Riot

by Leigh Kamping-Carder

Vancouver artist Stan Douglas reimagines a neighbourhood’s troubled past

On Hugh MacLennan’s Watch

by Nick Mount

Hugh MacLennan’s bestseller The Watch That Ends the Night turns fifty

Head and Heart

by Misha Aster

Director Robert Carsen brings a Canadian temperament to the world’s great opera houses

Letters: July/Aug 2009

by The Walrus Readers

Letters in response to the June 2009 issue of The Walrus.

An Arboreal History

by Lauchie Reid

According to the Guild of St. Luke: an illustration series

Q&A: Camille Paglia

by David Balzer

“We’re in a period of what Northrop Frye would have called the winter phase of irony and satire.”


June 2009

Land of the Lost

by Tyler Clark Burke

A gallery of creatures, plants and other strangenesses

Man with a Movie Camera

by Daniel Baird

Canada’s Mark Lewis launches an ambitious (and expensive) project for the Venice Biennale

Canadian Primal

by Mark Dickinson

Five poet-thinkers redefine our relationship to nature

Back In Palookaville

by Sean Rogers

Cartoonist and designer Seth emerges as comics’ premier historian

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