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Photo: Niagara Falls, 1840

July/Aug 2009

Photo: Niagara Falls, 1840

by The Walrus
How academics found the first photograph to be taken in Canada

The Crow Procedure

Science Fiction

The Crow Procedure

The surgery to give Mr Dapple the wings of a crow was scheduled to take twelve minutes

The Case for Europe

International Affairs

The Case for Europe

As Europe swings to the right, BBC journalist Nick Fraser asks: is the EU worth saving?

More Stories in this issue

Unrepentant

Film

Unrepentant

A profile of screenwriter Budd Schulberg (1914-2009), from the June 2004 issue of The Walrus


Louis Slotin You Will Not Turn Forty (after Ted Hughes)

Poetry

Louis Slotin You Will Not Turn Forty (after Ted Hughes)

A new poem by Michael Lista


Grand Slam Chief

Profile

Grand Slam Chief

Does Phil Fontaine have what it takes to lead the First Nations’ next generation?


At The Gastown Riot

Profile

At The Gastown Riot

Vancouver artist Stan Douglas reimagines a neighbourhood’s troubled past


Q&A: Camille Paglia

Online Exclusive

Q&A: Camille Paglia

“We’re in a period of what Northrop Frye would have called the winter phase of irony and satire.”


Sibling Rivalry Redux

Memoir

Sibling Rivalry Redux

As parents grow old, the children who care for them don’t always grow up


Three Tales of Terror

Fiction

Three Tales of Terror

Three new horror stories by Rivka Galchen, Lee Henderson, and Stephen Marche


An Arboreal History

Online Exclusive

An Arboreal History

According to the Guild of St. Luke: an illustration series. » View Photo Gallery «


Head and Heart

Theatre

Head and Heart

Director Robert Carsen brings a Canadian temperament to the world’s great opera houses


The Walrus Presents...

Comics

The Walrus Presents...

Karlheinz Schreiber lubricates Canada


Decomposting Bodies

Environment

Decomposting Bodies

What’s the greenest way to dispose of human remains?


Letters: July/Aug 2009

Letters

Letters: July/Aug 2009

Letters in response to the June 2009 issue of The Walrus.


The True Sorrows of Calamity Jane

Western

The True Sorrows of Calamity Jane

“There shall be no drinking and no cussing at the funeral of any man,” he whined


Canada’s Merchant Banker

Economics

Canada’s Merchant Banker

Is the recession really over? Read a profile of the Bank of Canada’s Governor, Mark Carney.


On Hugh MacLennan’s Watch

Books

On Hugh MacLennan’s Watch

Hugh MacLennan’s bestseller The Watch That Ends the Night turns fifty


Real Estate

Ghost Story

Real Estate

A week or so later, I had a repeat of the phantom string cheese episode


Spiritual Citizenship

Religion

Spiritual Citizenship

The life and times of Richard John Neuhaus


The Nerve

Romance

The Nerve

Theo Sophistron was in the sky. He didn’t like it.


Enter The Holy Now

Religion

Enter The Holy Now

How African Pentacostalism is commercializing global Christianity


MARCH 2010
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