Among a Lot of Poems
Among a lot of poems There was one I could never quite bring to mind Except that I had composed it A while back Going down this street This street …
Read MoreJune 2005
Allan Gregg heralds a return to the politics of ideas; Ray Conlogue asks whether Canada will change radical Islam; Nelson Handel travels the frontiers of flavour; Don Gillmor makes a case for Kidlit; Li Robbins unpacks world music; fiction by Sara O’Leary…
The Peace Wager
As the killing in Darfur continues, the question arises once more: why can no one stop it?
Read MoreTotally Genius
The smartest scientists in the world still haven’t solved a basic question: are minds like Shakespeare, Mozart, and Einstein born or made?
Read MoreFrontiers Of Flavour
A team of explorers follows in the footsteps of Marco Polo—only this time the quest is for the world’s most elusive sensations of taste
Read MoreTrauma Mama
Angry, eloquent, fragile, native artist Rebecca Belmore takes her new work to the Venice Biennale
Read MoreIf Things Happen for a Reason
Untitled (2001), from the series Bedded. / Image courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poller This will be something to tell our children. That’s the first thing she remembers him …
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Desperately Seeking Ideas
Politics has been reduced to a guessing game about what voters want. Here’s a thought: how about an election fought on real issues
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Missing Mordecai
The Pope. Prince Rainier. Terri Schiavo. Numerous murders in Toronto the Good. More Iraqis. Satire. Context. Vocabulary. Death, not rebirth, seemed to haunt the news this spring, and it was …
Read MoreUnder the Sheltering Crescent Moon
Can our nation’s multiculturalism embrace Islamic radicals and reformers?
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