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July 2009

At The Gastown Riot

Vancouver artist Stan Douglas reimagines a neighbourhood’s troubled past

On Hugh MacLennan’s Watch

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

Head and Heart

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

Letters: July/Aug 2009

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

An Arboreal History

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

Q&A: Camille Paglia

“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

A gallery of creatures, plants and other strangenesses

Man with a Movie Camera

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

Canadian Primal

Five poet-thinkers redefine our relationship to nature

Back In Palookaville

Cartoonist and designer Seth emerges as comics’ premier historian

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.)

The Walrus
July/Aug 2009
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