October 2007
"I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink."
--Joe DiMaggio
October 2007
No Refuge
by Andrew Mitrovica
For challenging a policy that discriminated against certain refugees, a federal employee’s career was ruined. Despite being cleared, he still awaits justice. NMA nominee: Politics and Public Interestart by Sam Dargan
Education
The Mystery of Teaching
by Rick Salutin
In some form, most of us teach. Here’s why we should do it more often
National Magazine Award Nominee
Dominick’s Fish
by R.M. Vaughan
The things we leave behind when we die. NMA nominee: One of a Kind, R.M. Vaughan
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Sporting Life
56*
by David Robbeson
Was Joe DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak the greatest feat in all of sports or merely a product of its time?
Walrus Reads
Review: Late Nights On Air
by Marni Jackson
Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay McClelland & Stewart (2007), 376 pp. Elizabeth Hay’s previous
Poetry
Oh Canada (as sung on Vancouver Island)
by Karen Connelly
Another spring cracks open on the rocks as the seagull drops living mussels on stone shore, alights to tear the flesh. I know the fierce
Online Exclusive
Bonus photos for “The Chinese Dust Bowl”
by Benoit Aquin (photographer) and Patrick Alleyn (writer)
Online exclusive gallery. . » View Photo Gallery «
Television
Wire Transfer
by John Turner
David Simon’s The Wire is at the vanguard of a storytelling revolution that is changing the way we watch TV
Film
The Adaptation of Mordecai Richler
by Charles Foran
More than thirty years after publication, St. Urbain’s Horseman finally hits the screen
Drama
Twelve Angry Maids
by Craig Taylor
Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad brings forgotten corners of myth to light on stage
Imaginings
What a Season It Could Be...
by Don Gillmor
No one was more surprised than yours truly when nhl Commissioner Gary Bettman’s
China: Olympics 2008
The Chinese Dust Bowl
by Benoit Aquin (photographer) and Patrick Alleyn (writer)
China is undertaking the most ambitious environmental restoration in history. . » View Photo Gallery «
Feature Interview
Eat or Be Eaten
by Roger Martin
Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, tells Walrus editor Ken Alexander that in the global economy Canada has one choice: be a little guppy or a big fish
You Are Here
Tunnelling Through Time
by Jeremy Keehn
An artistic look at life underground, from the Paleolithic to now.
Politics
Blown Into Proportion
by Daniel Aldana Cohen
On the eve of Ontario’s referendum, a young voter makes the case for overhauling the country’s electoral system
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The DiMaggio Index
by Jared Bland
Lesser-known facts about Joe DiMaggio, the baseball legend who hit in an unbelievable 56 consecutive games in 1941, a major league record.
