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July/August 2006

"Those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."
- W.G. Sebald


A Very Dark Place

July/August 2006

A Very Dark Place

by Tom Fennell
In the panic after 9/11, Canada enacted anti-terrorism legislation that curtailed civil liberties in favour of national security. Faced with American pressure, is the Harper government poised to go even further?…[more]
Portraits by Jaret Belliveau

Plants with Soul

Anthropology

Plants with Soul

How a mind-bending plant-based drug made its way from the Amazon jungle to the US Supreme Court…[more]

The Long Walk of the Kuchi

International Affairs

The Long Walk of the Kuchi

A nomadic tribe confronts the latest chapter in Afghanistan’s tumultuous history…[more]

More Stories in this issue

Its a Smallwood, After All

Imaginings

Its a Smallwood, After All

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


The Changeling

Memoir

The Changeling

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]


The Ends of the Earth

Literature

The Ends of the Earth

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


A Song for the Yak

Poetry

A Song for the Yak

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]


Where Beauty Has No Ebb

Travel

Where Beauty Has No Ebb

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


from A Little Useless Geometry & Other Matters

Poetry

from A Little Useless Geometry & Other Matters

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


How I Became Exquisite

Poetry

How I Became Exquisite

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]


July 2006

Letters

July 2006

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


Swimming with Mao

Memoir

Swimming with Mao

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


My Doomed Voyage

Field Notes

My Doomed Voyage

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


Driving Lessons

Field Notes

Driving Lessons

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


Untitled

Poetry

Untitled

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]


My Life with Tolstoy

Memoir

My Life with Tolstoy

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]


July/August 2006 Bibliographies

Further Reading

July/August 2006 Bibliographies

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


Secret Adventure

Art

Secret Adventure

A series of illustrations on the theme of “secret adventure.”. » View Photo Gallery «


Eclipsed

Detail

Eclipsed

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


Life After the Death of Jazz

Music

Life After the Death of Jazz

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


High School Confidential

Field Notes

High School Confidential

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


Reawakening the Brief, and Other Unmentionables

Style

Reawakening the Brief, and Other Unmentionables

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


A Family Affair

Sightings

A Family Affair

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


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