The Walrus Magazine

Living on a Lighted Stage by Jason Anderson

2010-01-26T10:17+00:00

Are we finally ready to take Rush seriously?

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Firestorm by Greg Buium

2010-01-26T10:43+00:00

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

Shortly...

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Melting Plots by Nav Purewal

2010-01-26T13:20+00:00

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

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Bird Calling by Marcello Di Cintio

2010-01-27T93:40+00:00

Captivated by an endangered avian species, the former director of the Calgary Zoo becomes the world’s foremost expert in its propagation

Peter Karsten first heard the Pekin robins sing through the blowing snow and fading light of a prairie February. It was his...

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Editor’s Note by John Macfarlane

2010-01-28T16:41+00:00

Introducing the March 2010 issue of The Walrus

Michael Ignatieff...

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Star-Crossed by Troy Jollimore

2010-01-28T16:38+00:00

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

I spent...

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Letters by The Walrus readers

2010-01-28T17:55+00:00

Atonement, Havana Affair, and Pilgrim’s Progress

ATONEMENT Mitch...

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Law of the Jungle by Arno Kopecky

2010-01-28T17:44+00:00

A new free trade deal implicates Canada in Peru’s Indian Problem

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The Unsporting Event by Erin Millar

2010-01-28T19:37+00:00

Do the Paralympic Games encourage athletes to win big by aiming low?

This is it! Sonny Davis thinks to himself as he rolls off the streets of Oita City, Japan,...

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For the Fighter Pilot Made Redundant by Unmanned Drones by Jesse Patrick Ferguson

2010-01-29T81:55+00:00

Fatigued, he bides there, glum, in the desert Tim Hortons simulacrum, that mirage of home dragged out the tail end of a C130 Hercules and opened for business. In his PVC lawn chair, he pours...

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Life on the Instalment Plan by Marian Botsford Fraser

2010-01-27T73:45+00:00

Is Canada’s penal system for women making or breaking Renée Acoby?

It is a...

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Paul Farenbacher’s Yard Sale by Sarah Selecky

2010-01-28T20:26+00:00

Excerpted from the author’s forthcoming debut collection

Paul Farenbacher...

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Three Meals in Afghanistan by Naheed Mustafa

2010-01-28T19:16+00:00

In cities and villages alike, a country seeking change clings tightly to its past

In the days after...

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Real Magic by Robert Fulford

2010-01-29T81:44+00:00

At a special weight loss program for men, the author discovers that the only way to stop overeating is to start believing

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A Tale of Two Cities by Gary Stephen Ross

2010-01-29T83:04+00:00

The Vancouver you see, and the one you don’t

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