July/August 2006

Anthropology

Plants with Soul

by Michael Posner

International Affairs

The Long Walk of the Kuchi

by Adnan Khan

Imaginings

Its a Smallwood, After All

by Wayne Johnston

There are occasions when, looking out from the top storey of the Independence Building, Joey Smallwood wishes he could…[more]

Memoir

The Changeling

by Gail Gallant

On top of the TV there was a picture, colourized and framed, of baby Gail sitting on my father’s knee, with her name printed in the top right corner: Gail Gallant at 3 months…[more]

Literature

The Ends of the Earth

by Lisa Moore

The literature of two island outposts, Newfoundland and Tasmania, has captured the international imagination…[more]

Poetry

A Song for the Yak

by Gary Barwin

I feel pain a yak says when I stick a backgammon set in my eye or Celine Dion I should clarify the yak says grammar is a rich ape that…[more]

Travel

Where Beauty Has No Ebb

by Mark Anthony Jarman

Dublin is overrun with Eurotrash. To get to know the real Ireland, seek solitude and solace along the country’s many beaches…[more]

Poetry

from A Little Useless Geometry & Other Matters

by Rosmarie Waldrop

WATER Hopelessly conformist to any vessel, wavers beneath the smallest breath, takes on the colours of childhood. If you try to reason it…[more]

Poetry

How I Became Exquisite

by Stuart Ross

There in my favourite bar, Legends, whose walls were plastered with photos of Theodor Herzl and that girl who sang “You Light Up My…[more]

Letters

July 2006

ndp Endgame James Laxer’s perceptive critique of the New Democratic Party’s role in our recent…[more]

Memoir

Swimming with Mao

by Xujun Eberlein

By the time I left China, I had either thrown away or lost my childhood collection of memorabilia from the Cultural Revolution…[more]

Field Notes

My Doomed Voyage

by Helen Humphreys

Greenland, 2000 — The expedition was operated by an adventure-tour company, but the Lyubov Orlova was an…[more]

Field Notes

Driving Lessons

by Joseph Boyden

New Orleans, 2004 — The heat of the day has given way to an inky, balmy Louisiana night, our car windows rolled…[more]

Poetry

Untitled

by Michael Turner

What kept her eyes open was not the muscles in her head but an interest in everything about her. Every day, something new, or something she knew…[more]

Memoir

My Life with Tolstoy

by David Gilmour

It was an ill-advised journey. You don’t go to Jamaica in August unless you grew up there. Too hot. And those roosters.…[more]

Further Reading

July/August 2006 Bibliographies

by The Walrus Staff

Bibliographies from the July/August 2006 issue…[more]

Art

Secret Adventure

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Detail

Eclipsed

by Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean’s hard-earned Diamond Ring…[more]

Music

Life After the Death of Jazz

by Alexander Gelfand

The sound you hear over the bellyaching of purists is jazz’s fresh new blend…[more]

Field Notes

High School Confidential

by Douglas Coupland

Vancouver, 2006/1970s —This past spring I worked with four friends from my 1984 art-school grad class ripping…[more]

Style

Reawakening the Brief, and Other Unmentionables

by Julia Dault

A good set of underwear can reveal who we want to be…[more]

Sightings

A Family Affair

by Ken Alexander

For columnist Andrew Coyne, a telltale line in last spring’s budget was the promise to improve the tax treatment…[more]