The Buried Hatchet

October 24, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Jason Guriel

begins to biodegrade and—in the style of drums of waste in shallow if not porous graves— poisons the soil beside the river, turning to bilge all of the water you …

October 2012 / Poetry

Impasse

October 13, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Robyn Sarah

As illness makes us live hour by hour, revising our day as we go. As winter plants a great snowy foot in our path. As glass baffles the fly. How …

Comics / October 2012

No Guts, No Glory

October 1, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the October 2012 issue.

Books / October 2012

Good Books

October 1, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Sarah Treleaven

A Palestinian bookseller in Jerusalem wins his public relations campaign

October 2012 / Poetry

Water Conscious

October 1, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Helen Guri

Cry in the shower. Save yourself a rainstorm: listen to the basketballs falling tropically on the neighbour’s court. Drop-kick a potted cactus for its dram of ooze. Lick your wounds …

October 2012 / Society

Civil Warrior

October 1, 2012January 3, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Vancouver lawyer Joseph Arvay is the best interpreter of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. No one, perhaps, has had more influence on contemporary Canadian life and values

October 2012 / World

A Humble Architect

September 24, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Witold Rybczynski

Moshe Safdie has designed buildings around the world for almost fifty years but doesn’t have an identifiable style. His latest work, an Arkansas art museum funded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton, illustrates why it doesn’t matter