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Arts and literature coverage that encompasses online book reviews, music, film and television, the visual arts, architecture and design, and that reflects on our society and culture.


April 2010

The Art of Aha

Designer Oki Sato fuses Japanese elegance with just a little SCTV

Al and Me

Remembering Canada’s most famous poet ten years after his death

The Puppet Master and the Apprentice

One of the world’s great puppeteers finds renewal — for himself and his art form — in mentorship

Letters

Champaign Liberal, For Your Information, Talking Dirty, Greasy Kid Stuff, and Tusk, Tusk

Desktop Wallpaper: “Dark Element”

Download exclusive wallpaper from the April 2010 issue of The Walrus


March 2010

Living on a Lighted Stage

Are we finally ready to take Rush seriously?

Firestorm

The National Gallery’s acquisition of Voice of Fire created a massive controversy. Could it happen today?

Melting Plots

Two recent novels illuminate immigrants’ different experiences in English and French Canada

Star-Crossed

Science fiction contains worlds of wonder, but without love it’s lonely in space

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A Serbian monk burns through Kosovo

Open for Business
Open for Business
by Madelaine Drohan | MARCH 2005
How international corporations are exploiting our nation’s positive image with little more than a postal box