Where Beauty Has No Ebb
Dublin is overrun with Eurotrash. To get to know the real Ireland, seek solitude and solace along the country’s many beaches
Read MoreJuly/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…
A Very Dark Place
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?
Read MoreThe Ends of the Earth
The literature of two island outposts, Newfoundland and Tasmania, has captured the international imagination
Read MoreThe Long Walk of the Kuchi
A nomadic tribe confronts the latest chapter in Afghanistan’s tumultuous history
Read MoreReawakening the Brief, and Other Unmentionables
A good set of underwear can reveal who we want to be
Read MoreLife After the Death of Jazz
The sound you hear over the bellyaching of purists is jazz’s fresh new blend
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Plants with Soul
How a mind-bending plant-based drug made its way from the Amazon jungle to the US Supreme Court
Read MoreThe Changeling
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 …
Read MoreSwimming with Mao
Photograph courtesy of Xujun Eberlein By the time I left China, I had either thrown away or lost my childhood collection of memorabilia from the Cultural Revolution—Chairman Mao buttons in …
Read MoreMy Life with Tolstoy
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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