Graphic Truths
Once pure fantasy, the comic book has become
a powerful way of portraying reality
June 2006
Roy Romanow argues that Canada must return to its nation-building roots; Alan Broadbent asks if the government will intervene in the fates of Canadian cities; Mark Kingwell analyzes what’s become of the American dream; Nicola Ross examines a mental illness appearing among Nicaragua’s Miskitu Indians; fiction by Michael Winter…
Nicaragua’s Crazy Sickness
An indigenous community grapples with a mysterious ailment
Read MoreThe Possibility of a Pornographic Moralist
Caustic, excessive, self-loathing French author Michel Houellebecq skewers Western civilization
Read MoreA Storm Blowing from Paradise
Anselm Kiefer’s Heaven and Earth
Read MoreThe Truth about Lying
Everybody does it, and perhaps they should
Read MoreOld Hands on Deck
Could the United States’ Arabists provide an exit strategy from Iraq?
Read MoreBrighter Lights, Bigger Cities
Cities are the bloated elephants in Stephen Harper’s Cabinet room. Will he have the courage to look them in the eye?
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The American Gigantic
Has the dream of freedom and opportunity declined into a hopeless pathology?
Read MoreWhat He Saw
Photograph by Amanda Tetrault Be that way then, she said. And wished she hadn’t. She touched the straps of her bikini and walked down to the sea. She preferred diving …
Read MoreBloodFest ‘06: The May 24th Blackfly Rally
Illustration by Henrik Drescher The scene is a large field with a stage and tents near Kearney, Ontario, close to dusk. Billions and billions of blackflies have gathered for BloodFest …
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