Field Notes

Articles in Field Notes


November 2009

Virtual Emigration

Faced with hard times, Icelandic architects are finding work in Canada


October 2009

Gaga For Gags

Behind the scenes of Canada's hidden-camera hit, Just for Laughs Gags


June 2009

Chop Chop Square

Inside Saudi Arabia’s brutal justice system

The Peace Plus One Social Club

Inside the budding Chinese environmental movement


May 2009

Chop Chop Square

Inside Saudi Arabia’s brutal justice system

Walk to the Black Rock

Montreal’s Irish community remembers its dead


April 2009

Love and Rockets

An India-Pakistan wedding, briefly interrupted by fighter jets.


December 2008

Word is Born

A new tongue emerges from Kenya’s cabdrivers

Twilight in Tacheles

A legendary East Berlin art collective, fifteen years on

Tiger Balm

Nirvana amid the jungle cats of Bangkok

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For Everyone A Garden
For Everyone A Garden
by Adele Weder | FEBRUARY 2008
The failed dream of Montreal’s Habitat ‘67.

The Prodigal Preacher
The Prodigal Preacher
by Brett Grainger | JUNE 2009
A grandson contemplates a patriarch who favoured the company of strangers