Shifting Sands
Canada has plenty of oil, while China and the US are thirsty and desperate
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…
Wall-to-wall Politics
Graffiti in Buenos Aires is a political act and, for some, a profession. Artist Sergio “Nene” Majon stands beside one of his wall tags. / Photo by David Sax Buenos …
Read MoreThe Real Easy
Bourbon Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter is full of pubs and Mardi Gras shops, but authenticity in this tourist district is elusive. / Photo by Richard Cummins / LPI …
Read MoreThe Lion in Winter
Zimbabwe’s greatest living musician in a minor key
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Apocolypse
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 MoreAnother 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
Read MoreSuperior Fox
Salon Lilac from the series Fables (Carnavalet), 2004 (122 × 152 cm). / Courtesy of the artist Ihave been using animals in my photographs since 1979. It started with a …
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Danger Signs
Was the sea trying to warn them a killer wave was on the way?
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