July/August 2007
"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
July/August 2007
Moneybags
by Bruce Livesey
Today’s super-wealthy are as rich as Rockefeller, but will they be as generous?photography by Gabriel Jones
Detail
Extraction
by Edward Burtynsky
Canada started as a rough-and-tumble company, but is the march of progress now killing the country?
Foreign Affairs
3D Vision
by Taylor Owen and Patrick Travers
Can Canada reconcile its defence, diplomacy, and development objectives in Afghanistan?
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Further Reading
July/August 2007 Bibliographies
by The Walrus Staff
More information on topics presented in the July/August 2007 issue
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The Very Strange Case of Hussein Ali Sumaida
by Andrew Mitrovica and Roxana Olivera
A double agent for Saddam’s notorious Mukhabarat and Israel’s Mossad has returned to Canada. How did he get here? Did Canada once deliver him into torture? And has Sumaida finally found sanctuary?
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A Gallery of Love Songs, Illustrated
by Matthew McKinnon
Click on the name of the song to hear an excerpt. In the museums of the future, there had. » View Photo Gallery «
Politics
Charisma
by Jeff Ryan
Do we want our political leaders to be sexy and playful, or are we content with being bored?
Fiction
The Counterpart
by Nadia Kalman
Aleksey Alexandrovich Smoletkin - the former Gorky Professor of Arts and Letters at Leningrad State, the father of a
Sightings
Generation WWW
by Ken Alexander
The new world order, as described in dispatches from the culture front, reveals itself as follows: so long as it is
Literature
In Paris with Mavis Gallant, Writer
by Randy Boyagoda
“M’excuser, monsieur. Je cherche des livres par Mavis Gallant. Où peux-je les trouver?” I asked
Fiction
The Principles of Exile
by Camilla Gibb
My mother has sent me out to Saint-Denis by Métro, because Alsan, the cleaner at her office, has told her that the best
