Apocalypse
If it walks like apocalypse. If it squawks like armageddon. If it stalks the earth like anaphylactic parturition. If the halo jams like septicemic laurels, if species recuse recuse if …
Read MoreApril 2005
Don Gillmor considers the implications of Alberta’s considerable oil reserves in a climate of increasing scarcity; Rita Leistner visits and photographs Baghdad’s largest psychiatric hospital; Larry Frolick tells the story of a disastrous tidal wave reaching a small Thai village; fiction by Lynn Coady…
Another Hypnotic Prairie Night
Alberta-based hypnotist Wayne Morris makes his living going from small town to small town across Canada, feeding what he calls his “need for attention.” WAKAW—It has been a dull, dark …
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Cities in a Raw Young Century
Bombay, Tehran, and Prague, in all their madness and excess, refuse to conform to Western notions of the modern city
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Superior Fox
Ihave been using animals in my photographs since 1979. It started with a photograph that included two dogs that looked stuffed but were alive. In the early eighties I did …
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Danger Signs
Was the sea trying to warn them a killer wave was on the way?
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‘Til Decree Do Us Part
The Catholic Church holds traditional marriage sacred, but it’s handing out annulments by the thousands
Read MoreMedical Mystery
Kenyan sex worker Hawa Chelangat: still alive, still negative
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Marathon Man
At age 74, Ed Whitlock is one of the fastest men on earth
Read MorePeace and Order vs. Glorious and Free
As we moved from T-shirts to down parkas and back to T-shirts again during this winter of climate change—one day semi-tropical; the next, polar and full of revenge—political speeches served …
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