October, 2007 | The Walrus

October 2007

56*

October 12, 2007June 1, 2021 - by David Robbeson

Was Joe DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak the greatest feat in all of sports or merely a product of its time?

October 2007

No Refuge

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Andrew Mitrovica

For challenging a policy that discriminated against certain refugees, a federal employee’s career was ruined. Despite being cleared, he still awaits justice

October 2007

The Chinese Dust Bowl

October 12, 2007April 15, 2020 - by Patrick Alleyn

In response to the rapid desertification of its once-fertile steppes and oases, China is undertaking the most ambitious environmental restoration in history

October 2007 / Poetry

Oh Canada (as sung on Vancouver Island)

October 12, 2007July 7, 2017 - by Karen Connelly

Another spring cracks open on the rocks as the seagull drops living mussels on stone shore, alights to tear the flesh. I know the fierce gull. I know the creature …

October 2007

Twelve Angry Maids

October 12, 2007April 15, 2020 - by Craig Taylor

Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad brings forgotten corners of myth to light on stage

October 2007

Wire Transfer

October 12, 2007October 23, 2019 - by John Turner

David Simon’s The Wire is at the vanguard of a storytelling revolution that is changing the way we watch TV

October 2007

The Adaptation of Mordecai Richler

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Charles Foran

More than thirty years after publication, St. Urbain’s Horseman finally hits the screen

October 2007 / Poetry

The Eyes Have It

October 12, 2007July 7, 2017 - by John Bemrose

Just off the trail among the quills of the birches the porcupine had settled, comfortably into its final business. It looked like a fur hat abandoned in the snow melt …

October 2007