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September 2004

"How fabulous the truth would have been to them, except that it would have shattered their theologies." --Paul West

September 2004

Tortured Civilizations: Islam and the West

by Tariq Ali

In the brutal aftermath of the war on Iraq, a genuine clash of civilizations has emerged. Could it have been avoided?

Illustrations by Jeremy Traum

Front Man

by Andrew Mitrovica

Grant Bristow kept silent for almost ten years about his controversial work as a CSIS spy in Canada’s neo-Nazi movement. Now, finally, he’s ready to tell his side of the story.

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I’m Going To Read Three Poems

by Robert Kroetsch

Before I read this first poem I should tell you that my paternal grandfather had a gold pocket watch with a lid over the watch’s face. In his

How to Save Democracy

by Allan Gregg

The system is ailing and the disease is cynicism. Perhaps the time has come for a radical new treatment

Loss Leaders

by Madelaine Drohan

lusaka—In 2002, Zambia State Insurance Corporation, Zambia’s largest insurance company (with about 375

Land Mines and Looters

by Jim Christy

phnom penh—I was climbing across the crumbling remains of Beng Melea, a one-kilometre-square temple complex

September 2004

by The Walrus Readers

Money for Nothing Clive Thompson’s article on economist Edward Castronova (

First Dibs on the 21st Century

by Ken Alexander

THE FIRST Canadian federal-election campaign of the 21st century hung Parliament, focused on the near past, and

Con Artist

by Vik Muniz

“I MAKE recognizable images using unexpected materials. This portrait of Alice Liddell (the girl who

Behind the Scene

by Arthur Kleinjan

Between 1999 and 2001, Dutch visual-artist Arthur Kleinjan spent hours perched in a balcony above the bleached-stone

Spin Alert

by Ira Basen

Is an increasingly powerful public relations industry controlling the news?

Hot Air

by Douglas Bell

Global Warming as Hollywood celebrity: Pathetic fallacy? Or just plain pathetic?

Grocery-Store Wars

by Dierdre Hanna

new glasgow—Pictou County is in the part of Nova Scotia bordered to the north by the Northumberland Strait.

Primate Portraits

by Jill Greenberg

Portrait photographer Jill Greenberg has a successful career shooting celebrities such as Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood

Untitled

by Nicole Brossard

where life has new words for soul and muscles about to and voices about to and desire about to there is always a surplus of meanings to absorb

MARCH 2010

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