Swimming with Mao
Survival and family
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…
My Doomed Voyage
The lecture ended with a sloppy rendition of the Stan Rogers song about Franklin
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A Song for the Yak
I feel pain a yak says when I stick a backgammon set in my eye or Celine Dion I should clarify the yak says grammar is a rich ape that …
Read More from A Little Useless Geometry & Other Matters
WATER Hopelessly conformist to any vessel, wavers beneath the smallest breath, takes on the colours of childhood. If you try to reason it throws back your image and withdraws to …
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A Family Affair
For columnist Andrew Coyne, a telltale line in last spring’s budget was the promise to improve the tax treatment of capital gains for fishers; for Jeffrey Simpson it was the …
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How I Became Exquisite
There in my favourite bar, Legends, whose walls were plastered with photos of Theodor Herzl and that girl who sang “You Light Up My Life,” plus also an unshaven Fred …
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Its a Smallwood, After All
One of the advantages of being immortal is that you eventually make—and make up for—every possible mistake
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