Matthieu Aikins asks if the military’s massive counterinsurgency gamble can salvage the Afghan war; John Gray audits Canada’s Auditor General, Sheila Fraser; Jeet Heer explores Stuart McLean’s kind-hearted universe; Dave Cameron writes a heart-breaking memoir about his father’s death; Pasha Malla raises the lingering question from the summer’s G20 summit in Toronto: what if the black bloc protesters had a point?; fiction by Deborah Willis; and more
Ross King revisits Byng Inlet and the Tom Thomson
painting that changed Canadian art; The Walrus reads seven fall
books of note; Trevor Cole analyzes Richard Stursberg’s controversial
tenure at CBC; Ann Hui uncovers the backstory
of Robert Munsch’s childhood demons; Lucy Hardin’s Missing
Period: an interactive novel by Stephen Marche; and more
Noah Richler on the set of Barney’s Version with
Dustin Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, and his father’s ghost; Chris Wood
on the battle of the northern headwaters of the Mackenzie River; J. Robert
Lennon on the late career work of Margaret Atwood; Alexandra Molotkow
reveals how the Polaris Prize rewards Canada’s not-so-independent
indie musicians; fiction by Eden Robinson; and more
Marni Jackson considers why parents can’t let
go of their adult children; Gordon Laird studies Indira Samarasekera,
president of the University of Alberta; J.B. MacKinnon describes our
environment as “A 10 Percent World”; Daniel Baird explores
the Toronto International Film Festival’s new home; Denise Chong
remembers her time in Ottawa with Pierre Trudeau; fiction by David Bergen;
and more
New fiction by Lisa Moore, Linden MacIntyre, Rawi
Hage, Heather O’Neill, Zsuzsi Gartner, Stephen Marche, Michael
Winter, Miguel Syjuco, and Madeleine Thien; Chris Jones profiles the
director of the National Gallery of Canada; André Alexis laments
the decline of literary criticism; and more
David Macfarlane details the Americanization of hockey;
Jennifer Welsh examines the messy state of Canada’s foreign policy;
Michael Harris profiles sex-trade advocate Jamie Lee Hamilton; a photo
essay by Brennan O’Connor and Karen Connelly follows Karen refugees
from Burma to Canada; fiction by Billie Livingston; and more
Chris Turner takes twenty-first-century Europe’s
new grand tour; The Walrus reads — and
reviews seven new spring books; Robert Cushman reflects on the iconic
Christopher Plummer; Kaitlin Fontana remembers her time in New York;
Matthew McKinnon charts the rise of Canadian rapper Drake; fiction by
Pasha Malla; and more
Alison Motluk investigates the underground trade in
human eggs; Mark Kingwell decries the plague of incivility in Canadian
politics; Donald Weber photographs the legacy of uranium mining in the
Ukrainian city of Zhovti Vody; Stephen Henighan profiles Canadian intellectual
John Ralston Saul; fiction by Steven Heighton; and more
Gary Stephen Ross on the clichés and realities
of Vancouver; Naheed Mustafa dines with families in Afghanistan; Marian
Botsford Fraser profiles Renée Acoby and the troubling conditions
in Canada’s penal system for women; Robert Fulford on a weight
loss program for men; fiction by Sarah Selecky; and more
Ron Graham explains why Michael Ignatieff hasn’t
knocked our socks off; Gil Shochat delves into the Harper government’s
withholding of public information; artist Adam Makarenko creates dioramas
of his northwestern Ontarian hometown; Alex Hutchinson investigates the
unsporting nature of Canada’s Top Secret Olympic research program;
fiction by Michael Redhill; and more
