First Person | The Walrus

First Person / March 2009

House of Snow

March 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Michael Winter

A memoir of whiteout in Newfoundland

December 2008 / First Person

A Liar’s Life

December 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Bruce McCall

Everything I’m about to tell you is a pack of lies.

First Person / July/August 2008

No Escape, Not Even to Kyoto

July 12, 2008May 25, 2020 - by Pico Iyer

There’s no escaping anything in life. Fly all the way to Tahiti or the Himalayas, and what you’ll find—as the Hollywood clichés often remind us—is that person who’s always longing …

First Person / July/August 2008

Summertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging

July 12, 2008June 1, 2021 - by Guy Gavriel Kay

There’s something intriguing about the currently received notion of summer as a season for escape. Once upon a very different time, if you were escaping in summer it was very …

First Person / July/August 2008

Young Leaders, Algonquin Park, 1978

July 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Paul Watson

My group would hump our stuff along the trail, while the other would tie ropes to the canoes and tow them up the creek

First Person / July/August 2008

800 Clicks to Broadway

July 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Jane Urquhart

For at least a year after the Little Long Lac gold mine closed and our family left the country north of Superior for the city of Toronto, I could bring …

First Person / November 2007