The Black Hole of Guantanamo Bay
Omar Khadr has been held incommunicado by the United States for almost two years. He could be a terrorist, but without due process we may never know
Read MoreJuly/August 2004
Fiction by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Banana Yoshimoto, and Damon Galgut; poetry by Billy Collins, M. NourbeSe Philip, Di Brandt, and Marilyn Hacker; Bill Cameron argues that the unclarified legal status of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is only hurting the cause of justice; Thaddeus Holownia photographs Walden Pond…
What Lies Beneath
“DORIDE is a character who is viewing herself in her own imaginary world. The underwater world is like the world where dreams or art live. It’s not clear whether the …
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Live Large
Billy Constable hadn’t been sleeping soundly and at four o’clock one June morning he found himself prowling his living room with a cup of coffee clutched in an unsteady hand. …
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Iran’s Great Game
In 1980, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran because he believed Iranian fundamentalists were plotting against him. Today, with increasing chaos on the ground, is Iraq still threatened by Iranian subversion?
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The Fixers
On the ground with the Canadian Forces who maintain the air force’s fleet of aged Sea King maritime helicopters
Read MoreDubbing, Italian-Style
On the artistic consequence of Mussolini’s distaste for foreign languages
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China Beach, Then and Now
danang—“Charlie don’t surf – but you can,” promises the Internet brochure for the U.K.-based Wild Frontiers “Apocalypse Now 2004” tour of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The line is a paraphrase …
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A Moveable Feast
The Mediterranean Diet, an essentially American myth, is at last coming to the Mediterranean region itself
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Only Too Happy to Oblige
Sucking up: a brief history
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Lake Shore
“The cliché is your enemy.” –from a handbook on writing It is not easy to admit this on paper, but the surface of the lake is sparkling very much like …
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