Con Artist
Sometimes I choose the materials, but sometimes they choose me
Read MoreMonth: September 2004
Grocery-Store Wars
new glasgow—Pictou County is in the part of Nova Scotia bordered to the north by the Northumberland Strait. Here, my ancestors, among others, spent centuries trying to farm the same …
Read MoreLoss Leaders
A safer-sex billboard near the airport in Lusaka: many young Zambian males believe sorcery may be to blame for HIV/AIDS / Photograph by Patrick Kayukwa lusaka—In 2002, Zambia State Insurance …
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Land Mines and Looters
phnom penh—I was climbing across the crumbling remains of Beng Melea, a one-kilometre-square temple complex built early in the twelfth century in northwestern Cambodia, and said to be the model …
Read MoreA Democrat Abroad
Ford is an American Novelist.
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First Dibs on the 21st Century
THE FIRST Canadian federal-election campaign of the 21st century hung Parliament, focused on the near past, and was devoid of big ideas. There was no grand design on offer: free …
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I’m Going to Read Three Poems
Before I read this first poem I should tell you that my paternal grandfather had a gold pocket watch with a lid over the watch’s face. In his later years …
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Spin Alert
Is an increasingly powerful public relations industry controlling the news?
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Killing Dinner
Adventures of a reluctant huntress
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Tortured Civilizations: Islam and the West
In the brutal aftermath of the war on Iraq, a genuine clash of civilizations has emerged. Could it have been avoided?
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