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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

Desktop Wallpaper: Trees

Download exclusive wallpaper from the March 2010 issue of The Walrus


January 2010

Back in the Hall

No one made sketch comedy, that most Canadian of comic forms, like the Kids in the Hall — which makes their return to television a big deal

Bloodletting

Vincent Lam’s miraculous book goes under the knife for television

In the Clearing

Revisiting his hometown in a photographic series of miniature dioramas, the artist presents life and death in northwestern Ontario, writ small

What Thunder Bay Burned

And how Lady Chatterley wrote our obscenity law

MARCH 2010
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