The Walrus Magazine

No One Can Hear You Scream by Ivan Hansen

2010-08-03T14:57+00:00

At Mars on Earth, on Canada’s Devon Island, researchers prepare for space travel’s worst dangers

In April 1961, Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, the sole physician on the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition, fell ill. In just a few days’ time, nausea and fever gave way to what he described as...

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The Perfect Partner by Andrew Clark

2010-08-03T14:32+00:00

Why doubles player Daniel Nestor could be tennis’s greatest hope

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Modern Primitive by Nicholas Hune-Brown

2010-08-03T14:13+00:00

Survivorman’s Les Stroud taps into our twenty-first-century malaise and finds TV gold

On the very first episode of Survivorman, Les Stroud confidently paddles downstream into the patch of Northern Ontario boreal forest where he’ll spend the next seven nights surviving on his...

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Brazilian Blind Spot by Christopher Frey

2010-08-03T15:59+00:00

The Brazilians have lately been looking north for opportunities. For our own good, we ought to return the favour

When Stephen Harper called an election in September 2008, he did more than kick off the political soap opera that would end in prorogation. Lost amid the campaigning and the spectre of a BQ-approved...

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Editor’s Note by John Macfarlane

2010-08-04T16:31+00:00

Is it time to eliminate the middleman in public education?

The Toronto District School...

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Letters by The Walrus Readers

2010-08-04T16:17+00:00

Sticks and Stones, Can’t Buy Me Love, Performance Anxiety, and Barbarism Begins at Home

Sticks and Stones I’m one of...

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The Work of Art by Marianne Ackerman

2010-08-05T13:13+00:00

Dany Laferrière once yearned to be well known. Some twenty books later, he’d rather be widely read

Dany Laferrière in May...

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Cottage Country by Jeramy Dodds

2010-08-05T21:00+00:00

10-cane rum and I’m all sun inside. Children in shrink-wrap-tight swimsuits. Cigar boats burning by. Our aluminum’s hoist-high in dry-dock, tonsilled in the mouth of the...

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Convicts Care by Jason Sherman

2010-08-05T22:31+00:00

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Follow the Leader by Denise Chong

2010-08-03T14:23+00:00

A friend and colleague remembers Pierre Trudeau

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A 10 Percent World by J.B. MacKinnon

2010-08-03T15:12+00:00

Our natural world is a fraction of what it was before the mass culls and oil spills of the human era. To imagine how it once was it not to lament, but to picture what it can be again

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