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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
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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Watercolour by Alexis Rockman
July/August 2006 / World

The Ends of the Earth

July 12, 2006July 4, 2021 - 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, 2006July 4, 2021 - 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
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

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, 2006July 4, 2021 - by Gail Gallant

What if she gave birth to a boy? My mother assured them she was having a girl

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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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Photo by Peter Bryenton
July/August 2006

Driving Lessons

July 12, 2006July 4, 2021 - by Joseph Boyden

The little thing is long and skinny. Its blue in the harsh morning light

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Illustration by Takashi Okamoto; photograph by Natalie Matutschovsky
July/August 2006 / Memoir

My Life with Tolstoy

July 12, 2006July 4, 2021 - by David Gilmour

Like the acting of Christopher Walken or the movies of Eric Rohmer, Tolstoy’s magnum opus is a magnet for foolish opinions

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