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September 2008

"The first disappointments had passed: no ghostly centipedes, no strange-eared octopi, no clever adaptations to the lightlessness and the cold - just barren death."
- Stephen Marche, in "Tom Cruise at Lake Vostok"


The Anti-Socialite

September 2008

The Anti-Socialite

by Denis Seguin
Life with an Asperger’s child
illustration by Vänskap

Photo Gallery: Second Place Finishes

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Photo Gallery: Second Place Finishes

When losing is still winning. Sort of. » View Photo Gallery «

Frontier Families

Society

Frontier Families

The complexities of queer parenthood » View Photo Gallery «

More Stories in this issue

Do Avatars Dream of Electric Streets?

Field Notes

Do Avatars Dream of Electric Streets?

A virtual fantasia of China


The People’s Court

Law

The People’s Court

Doctors are paid for through our taxes. Why not lawyers? Alex Hutchinson examines a case for universal legal care


Close to the Bone

Field Notes

Close to the Bone

Searching for justice in Colombia


Review: The Killing Circle

Book Review

Review: The Killing Circle

A new suspense novel from Andrew Pyper


The World’s ‘Best’ Car Bombers?

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The World’s ‘Best’ Car Bombers?

Q&A with ex-CIA agent Robert Baer on terror, the Iran crisis, and Hezbollah blasts


Review: Revenant

Book Review

Review: Revenant

The romantic side of Anglesey, and other things not featured in this novel


Bomb That Brush

Field Notes

Bomb That Brush

Renegade retirees



Squashing Ducks

Field Notes

Squashing Ducks

Globalization gone awry


The Quiet Art of Cartooning

Detail

The Quiet Art of Cartooning

The loneliness of the no-distance cartoonist


Tom Cruise at Lake Vostok

Fiction

Tom Cruise at Lake Vostok

Researchers in Antarctica find Hollywood ghosts


I Try to Help

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I Try to Help

Some small talk at a Dubai Starbucks and then, unexpectedly, Ihab gets serious


Review: The Wrecking Crew

Book Review

Review: The Wrecking Crew

Thomas Frank’s follow-up to What’s the Matter with Kansas


Sink or Swim

Sporting Life

Sink or Swim

Pierre Lafontaine’s bid to revive Swimming Canada


Cellphone Games

Health

Cellphone Games

Does radio frequency radiation pose a cancer risk? Researchers in the largest study to date won’t say


Review: What Is America?

Book Review

Review: What Is America?

America’s genocidal history, as discussed in Ronald Wright’s new book


The Other Darwin

Books

The Other Darwin

The nineteenth-century naturalist gets emotional


Q&A: Pasha Malla

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Q&A: Pasha Malla

Our books blogger interviews Canadian writer Pasha Malla


A Land Apart

International Affairs

A Land Apart

Can Turkey fulfill its promise as a bridge between East and West when its own peoples stand divided?


At The Whisky Tasting

Imaginings

At The Whisky Tasting

Whisky tasting for the professional


Shift Happens

Sightings

Shift Happens

Stéphane Dion is the anti-Reagan


History at Invesco Field

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History at Invesco Field

Have Canadians ever been this passionate?. » View Photo Gallery «


The Renaissance of Cute

Art

The Renaissance of Cute

How the street brought pleasure back to art — for free. » View Photo Gallery «


September 2008

Letters

September 2008

On foreign doctors, prime ministerial biographers, militant cyclists, and the fascinating Doukhobors


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