September 2007
"I do not weep at the world--I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
- Zora Neale Hurston
September 2007
Telling All
by Mark Czarnecki
The phenomenon of the male public apology hides the truth about men, shame, and silencephotography by Miao Xiaochun
Feature
Paradise Lost
by Martin Patriquin
In the summer of 2006, a Montreal family went home to Lebanon. They found love, affection, and the horrors of war. Most never returned.
Religion
Spain’s New Muslims
by Geoff Pingree and Lisa Abend
Converts have become the agreeable face of Spanish Islam
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National Magazine Award Nominee
Breaking D-Wave
by Alex Hutchinson
Has a small business in British Columbia start-up built the world’s first viable quantum computer? NMA nominee: Science, Technology & the Environment
National Magazine Award Nominee
War Stories
by Rita Leistner
Rita Leistner’s “portraitscapes” of Lebanon, 2006. NMA nominee: Photojournalism & Photo Essay. » View Photo Gallery «
Business
Magic Kingdom or Glass House?
by Deborah Campbell
The inside story of massive wealth, hope for a Middle East in flux, and a dream that could be shattered by one terrorist bombing . . . Dubai, a city that never sleeps
Fiction
Mont Royal
by Jaspreet Singh
When I moved to this city, ladies, I thought the cross on the top of the mountain was actually a mathematical sign, you
Sightings
Dog Days and Fall Fun
by Ken Alexander
Ottawa is awash in talk of the Harper government launching its fall campaign by “recalibrating its
Society
On Strawberry Hill
by Chris Turner
The hippie exodus to Canada from the United States was not a mass migration, but it was close. Is it time to rethink this period, then and now?
Letters
September 2007
by The Walrus Readers
Charter Fight
Okay, I get it. Michael Healey’s article (
Online Exclusive
Novel excerpt — Invisible Armies
by Jon Evans
Jon Evans is the author of “Apocalypse Soon,” about the future of reading, in the September 2007 issue. Here are the first two chapters of his upcoming novel, Invi
Online Exclusive
Novel excerpt — Dark Places
by Jon Evans
Jon Evans is the author of “Apocalypse Soon,” about the future of reading, in the September 2007 issue. Here is the first chapter of his debut novel, Dark Places.
National Magazine Award Nominee
The Hidden Mickey Mouse
by John Reardon
Mickey’s secret diaries. NMA nominee: Humour
