2008.12

December 2008

“It was at this point that a routine prisoner transfer started looking like a barroom collaboration between Agatha Christie and Louis L’Amour.” — John Vaillant, in “The Lynching of Louie Sam”

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Eels on Wheels

Eels on Wheels

The curious conservation of the Great Lakes eel
Environment · by David Lees
The Birdman of Hastings Track
The Birdman of Hastings Track
Pigeon pursuit in the Lower Mainlands of BC
Field Notes · by Peter Valing
Selective Testing
Selective Testing
Does Big Pharma stand to gain the most from new genetic tests for drug therapy?
Health · by Alexander Gelfand
Tiger Balm
Tiger Balm
Nirvana amid the jungle cats of Bangkok
Field Notes · by Larry Frolick
Feel This
Feel This
A new short story from the author of The Law of Dreams
Fiction · by Peter Behrens
Review: Distantly Related To Freud
Review: Distantly Related To Freud
“Sex was power, as long as you kept your head.”
Book Review · by Marianne Ackerman
Regret
Regret
“Grabbing you on the steps of the New York Public Library...”
Poetry · by Troy Jollimore
Review: The Steve Machine
Review: The Steve Machine
A novel that toys with our notion of reality.
Book Review · by Stuart Woods
The Lynching of Louie Sam
The Lynching of Louie Sam
In 1884, an American mob brought frontier justice to the Canadian border.
History · by John Vaillant
Review: The Muskwa Assemblage
Review: The Muskwa Assemblage
Don McKay’s alternative to cow placenta sculpture
Book Review · by Jared Bland
Word is Born
Word is Born
A new tongue emerges from Kenya’s cabdrivers
Field Notes · by Arno Kopecky
The Last of the Wild Jews
The Last of the Wild Jews
Is it the end of an era for Jewish-American writing?
Literature · by Charles Foran
Q&A: Joseph Boyden
Q&A: Joseph Boyden
An interview with the winner of the 2008 Giller Prize
From the Blogs · by Jared Bland
Twilight in Tacheles
Twilight in Tacheles
A legendary East Berlin art collective, fifteen years on
Field Notes · by Chris Turner
Letters: December 2008
Letters: December 2008
Our Olympics swimming coverage makes one reader “sad.”
Letters · by The Walrus Readers
Review: Entitlement
Review: Entitlement
Brideshead Revisited and the Flyte to Canada
Book Review · by Charles Foran
A Liar’s Life
A Liar’s Life
Everything I’m about to tell you is a pack of lies.
Imaginings · by Bruce McCall
Mincemeat Pie
Mincemeat Pie
Your mother’s Christmas pudding recipe is all wrong
Walrus Cookbook · by Jared Bland, Danielle Groen & Brian Morgan
Bare-Naked Soul
Bare-Naked Soul
Montreal choreographer Dave St-Pierre pushes his dancers to their limits
Dance · by Alexandra Redgrave
The Archipelago of Fear
The Archipelago of Fear
Are fortification and foreign aid making Kabul more dangerous?
International Affairs · by Charles Montgomery
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