Thinking Inside the Big Box
It is an old story, often told: Wal-Mart, with its predatory pricing, strategic positioning, and, despite recent losses, ongoing marriage to the growth model, is a wrecker of local virtues. …
Read MoreDecember 2007
Linda McQuaig examines the Iraq war’s benefits to Big Oil; Noah Richler reports on a controversial mega-quarry in Digby Neck, NS; Timothy Taylor describes a book collector’s obsession; a Fabrica photo essay contrasts life in the West to that in Darfur; Rick Salutin rethinks the Holocaust in the wake of 9/11; fiction by Steven Heighton…
Making Red
A mystery in colour
Read More Keeping the Beat
Music and mourning in Ghana
Read More How to Get a Head
The birth of a dough boy
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A Laurentian twist on a French delicacy
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Rock Bottom
With the seas nearly barren, should Digby Neck, Nova Scotia, settle for selling the earth?
Read MoreThe Walrus Reads
Four new titles of note
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Lost and Found
posted on mysoul.com: 20/08/07 Dear Unborn Child, The other day, my yoga teacher was talking about reincarnation, and suddenly it occurred to me that you might be wondering why you …
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Two Sonnets
i mind is a night wing in the blind atmosphere that sprinkles the ground with its own dust. you are your own muscular witness in a wide station of wandering …
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One Hundred Years at Forty
Gabriel García Márquez’s sumptuous and tragic vision of the modern world
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