Wednesday, October 15, 2008
July/August 2005
Catechism
by Wayne Johnston
Why did he come to the city? He was not yet ready to return to the one …[more]Illustration by Christopher Hutsul
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]
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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…[more]
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.…[more]
Technology
Torrential Reign
by Matthew McKinnon
A mega file-sharing protocol called BitTorrent is making the music piracy of yesteryear look like petty theft.…[more]
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.…[more]
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…[more]
Politics
Green Party Blues
by Murray Dobbin
Can Jim Harris rescue the environment by mainstreaming the Greens?…[more]
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…[more]
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…[more]
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…[more]
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…[more]
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…[more]
Fiction
Franklin’s Library
by Helen Humphreys
The sailor looks up from the book. He looks up, out of the oily coin of candlelight lying on the page. He can still…[more]
Field Notes
Moving Back To Chernobyl
by Larry Frolick
chernobyl—Nineteen years after the biggest nuclear disaster in history spewed radioactive material across…[more]
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