July/August 2005
Franklin’s Library
by Helen Humphreys
The sailor looks up from the book. He looks up, out of the oily coin ofIllustration by Michelangelo Iaffaldano
Politics
Green Party Blues
by Murray Dobbin
Can Jim Harris rescue the environment by mainstreaming the Greens?
Politics
The Dictator Debt Catch
by Paul Webster
This 2005 piece explores a US-brokered deal to forgive billions in Iraqi debt and its implications on the rest of the developing world.
More Stories in this issue
Books
A Civilizing Influence
by Charles Foran
Tariq Ali’s Islam Quintet paints a softer face on the historical interactions between Muslims and the West
Books
Identity Crisis
by Randy Boyagoda
Turkey’s most famous writer evokes his country’s schizophrenic past and its struggle with Islam’s place in day-to-day life.
Sporting Life
My Tennis Game
by Don Gillmor
My tennis game was raised by wolves. Abandoned as an infant, it sat in a dark part of the forest for three days. It
Poetry
The Twentieth Time
by Sheldon Zitner
Some say it looks like rain, some say they believe in God, some say they are going to Winnipeg. The polling numbers are accurate to within plus
Field Notes
The Punk Who Would Be King
by Hal Niedziecki
stratford—In 2001, I took a carload of people to a reading by Chris Rickett, infamous resident and future
Technology
Torrential Reign
by Matthew McKinnon
A mega file-sharing protocol called BitTorrent is making the music piracy of yesteryear look like petty theft.
Imaginings
My Living Media Will
by Marni Jackson
In the event that my health deteriorates to the point where extreme measures are required to sustain life and keep me
Fiction
Catechism
by Wayne Johnston
Why did he come to the city? He was not yet ready to return to the one where his wife was waiting for him. He could
Field Notes
The New Word Order
by Charles Foran
hong kong—Imagine this seating chart for a dinner at a literary festival in Hong Kong. A Chinese-American
Fiction
Pericles
by Yiorgos Skardonis, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
May 1941. The corn is high. There are two goatherds keeping watch over all the goats in Zostiko. A Greek and a
Culture
Arsenal Of Illusion
by Jake MacDonald
Hollywood know-how is helping to create new kinds of military weapons that target the brain—but not with a bullet.
Parallel Universe
Diamonds And Soot
by Douglas Coupland
People say when you’re in love you enter a parallel universe—a republic of two, hypnotic, exclusive, and
Field Notes
Moving Back To Chernobyl
by Larry Frolick
chernobyl—Nineteen years after the biggest nuclear disaster in history spewed radioactive material across
IN THE NEWS:
Health
Waiting for the Pandemic
How health officials struggled to contain the avian flu virus. By Gwynne Dyer, from the October 2008 issue.
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