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July/August 2006

Memoirs by David Gilmour, Gail Gallant, and Xujun Eberlein; poetry by Gary Barwin, Michael Turner, Stuart Ross, and Rosemarie Waldrop; Tom Fennell sounds alarm bells over the limiting of civil liberties; Adnan Khan visits with the nomadic Kuchi tribe of Afghanistan; Michael Posner charts the importing of a hallucinogenic plant…

Photography by Jaret Belliveau
Feature / July/August 2006

A Very Dark Place

July 12, 2006April 14, 2020 - by Tom Fennell

In the panic after 9/11, Canada enacted anti-terrorism legislation that curtailed civil liberties in favour of national security. Faced with American pressure, is the Harper government poised to go even further?

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July/August 2006 / World

The Ends of the Earth

July 12, 2006May 1, 2017 - by Lisa Moore

The literature of two island outposts, Newfoundland and Tasmania, has captured the international imagination

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July/August 2006 / World

Where Beauty Has No Ebb

July 12, 2006October 16, 2019 - by Mark Anthony Jarman

Dublin is overrun with Eurotrash. To get to know the real Ireland, seek solitude and solace along the country’s many beaches

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image of a large tent of a plain and image of a girl walking on a plain
Feature / July/August 2006

The Long Walk of the Kuchi

July 12, 2006June 2, 2020 - by Adnan Khan

A nomadic tribe confronts the latest chapter in Afghanistan’s tumultuous history

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July/August 2006 / Society

Reawakening the Brief, and Other Unmentionables

July 12, 2006July 24, 2020 - by Julia Dault

A good set of underwear can reveal who we want to be

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July/August 2006 / Music

Life After the Death of Jazz

July 12, 2006March 8, 2020 - by Alexander Gelfand

The sound you hear over the bellyaching of purists is jazz’s fresh new blend

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July/August 2006 / Memoir

The Changeling

July 12, 2006October 16, 2019 - by Gail Gallant

Illustration by Amber Albrecht On top of the TV there was a picture, colourized and framed, of baby Gail sitting on my father’s knee, with her name printed in the …

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Feature / July/August 2006

Plants with Soul

July 12, 2006January 2, 2020 - by Michael Posner

How a mind-bending plant-based drug made its way from the Amazon jungle to the US Supreme Court

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First Person / July/August 2006

Driving Lessons

July 12, 2006October 16, 2019 - by Joseph Boyden

Photo by Peter Bryenton New Orleans, 2004—The heat of the day has given way to an inky, balmy Louisiana night, our car windows rolled down as we speed, tires humming …

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July/August 2006 / Memoir

My Life with Tolstoy

July 12, 2006April 14, 2020 - by David Gilmour

Photograph by Natalie Matutschovsky It was an ill-advised journey. You don’t go to Jamaica in August unless you grew up there. Too hot. And those roosters. I wanted to go …

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