Land Mines and Looters
A library at Beng Melea, part of a crumbling twelfth-century temple complex in Cambodia that is a looter’s dream / Photograph by Jim Christy phnom penh—I was climbing across the …
Read MoreSeptember 2004
Andrew Mitrovica tells the story of a CSIS spy who infiltrated Canada’s neo-Nazi movement; Tariq Ali looks at the madness of the Iraq War; Jill Greenberg takes startling photos of non-human primates; Gail Singer goes to Scotland for her first stag hunt; poetry by Nicole Brossard, Derek Beaulieu, and Robert Kroetsch…
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 …
Read MoreA Democrat Abroad
Ford is an American Novelist.
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 …
Read MoreGrocery-Store Wars
The Sobeys in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, is only one of the area’s grocery superstores. / Photograph by Anna Fraser new glasgow—Pictou County is in the part of Nova Scotia …
Read MoreCon Artist
ALice Liddell, After Lewis Carroll (2004) / Vik Muniz Cloud Cloud, Manhattan (2001) / Vik Muniz “I make recognizable images using unexpected materials. This portrait of Alice Liddell (the girl …
Read MorePrimate Portraits
Weeper (capuchin) Portrait photographer Jill Greenberg has a successful career shooting celebrities such as Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood for the likes of Entertainment Weekly, Maxim, Vanity Fair, and Time. …
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