October, 2010 | The Walrus

October 2010 / Society

Editor’s Note

October 15, 2010April 14, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

Summer slips away, winter approaches, and in the interval the other fall harvest is upon us: new television shows, films, books, music, and video games, most of them trash. I …

October 2010

The Last Great Water Fight

October 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Chris Wood

The battle for the northern headwaters of the Mackenzie River

October 2010

Quieter Revolutions

October 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Jocelyn Létourneau

A Québécois historian examines the undercurrents of La Révolution Tranquille, fifty years after it began

October 2010

Faded Hero

October 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Charlotte Gray

How Canada forgot—and then rediscovered—Sir Sam Steele

Fiction / October 2010

Minnows

October 12, 2010June 8, 2020 - by Eden Robinson

Ella’s face appears in my window and I think she is a ghost. She’s dead, she’s finally died, I almost keen but her face is a mask of my daughter …

October 2010

The Indie Rock Swindle

October 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Alexandra Molotkow

The Polaris Prize rewards Canada’s not-so-independent indie musicians

Books / October 2010

Self Condemned

October 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Adam Hammond

Wyndham Lewis hated his native Canada, but his ideas helped shape the nation

October 2010 / Poetry

Dying in Winnipeg

October 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Jon Paul Fiorentino

Don’t read me wrong— I plan on dying in Winnipeg In a strange way I posit Winnipeg is where everything always dies: Grandfathers, clock radios, Chevrolets faith, journalists, fine-tip pens …