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July/August 2007
"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
July/August 2007
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?…[more]
National Magazine Award Nominee
Bob Dylan Goes Tubing
by Marni Jackson
One morning we came back from town to find a strange car parked under the white pines beside our cottage. An old Citroën, the kind where the chassis goes up and down hydraulically... NMA nominee: Humour, Marni Jackson…[more]
Society
Moneybags
by Bruce Livesey
Poor Conrad Black. Or wait, he's not so poor. Today's super-rich are as wealthy as Rockefeller, but they may not be as generous.…[more]
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Fiction
The Counterpart
by Nadia Kalman
Aleksey Alexandrovich Smoletkin - the former Gorky Professor of Arts and Letters at Leningrad State, the father of a…[more]
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…[more]
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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 «
Foreign Affairs
3D Vision
by Taylor Owen and Patrick Travers
Can Canada reconcile its defence, diplomacy, and development objectives in Afghanistan? …[more]
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…[more]
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…[more]
Politics
Charisma
by Jeff Ryan
Do we want our political leaders to be sexy and playful, or are we content with being bored? …[more]
Letters
July/August 2007
by The Walrus Readers
Tough Nut
Stephen Williams is to be commended for
Further Reading
July/August 2007 Bibliographies
by The Walrus Staff
More information on topics presented in the July/August 2007 issue…[more]
Detail
Extraction
by Edward Burtynsky
Canada started as a rough-and-tumble company, but is the march of progress now killing the country?…[more]
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