December 2010 | The Walrus

December 2010 / Poetry

The Trick

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Julie Bruck

Blinking in the half-light, almost bright after the school’s dim corridors, we’d pass the line of poplars, tall black sentries at the outer limits of the play field. Street lights …

Comics / December 2010

Sleep Tight

December 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the December 2010 issue.

December 2010 / Feature

Last Stand in Kandahar

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Matthieu Aikins

Can the military’s massive counterinsurgency gamble salvage the Afghan war?

December 2010 / Memoir

Approximate Directions to a Burial

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Dave Cameron

A son retraces his father’s death

December 2010 / Fiction

Hard Currency

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Deborah Willis

The last time Alexei paid for sex, he was eighteen years old. How’s that for a beginning, a secret, the truth? It had been his eighteenth birthday, only weeks before …

December 2010 / Feature

Auditing the Auditor General

December 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by John Gray

After almost ten years on the job, Sheila Fraser is preparing to step down. Her tenure was not without its controversy, but no one in Ottawa any longer questions her toughness

December 2010 / Feature

The Question Remains

December 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Pasha Malla

Lost amid the violence and sensationalism of this year’s G20 summit in Toronto was an issue few wanted to confront: what if the black bloc protesters had a point?