how | The Walrus - Part 341

Environment / June 2013

Cache-22

May 29, 2013July 17, 2019 - by Conor Mihell

A hard-luck town competes for Canada’s nuclear waste

Fiction / June 2013

Firebugs

May 28, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Craig Davidson

There are shapes that only live in fire. Hunger. Fire’s basic drive. The purest, most incarnate hunger you can imagine. Nothing mankind has ever assembled is impervious. I’ve seen fire …

Rendering courtesy of Bing Thom Architects

June 2013

The Zen Master

May 27, 2013August 22, 2017 - by Witold Rybczynski

Vancouver’s Bing Thom takes his place among the world’s A-list architects

World

Return to Fukushima

May 24, 2013March 4, 2022 - by Justin Robertson

More than two years after fleeing from Japan’s radioactive disaster, a Canadian professor contemplates going back to the scene of the quake

June 2013

Tudor Revival

May 23, 2013July 11, 2020 - by Alec Scott

Our never-ending obsession with the feuding queens

June 2013 / Technology

Call of the Wild

May 22, 2013December 19, 2019 - by Alex Hutchinson

You can now use a cellphone in the remotest places on earth—if you really want to

June 2013 / Sports

Pitch Perfect

May 13, 2013August 17, 2017 - by Jay Ingram

Why the knuckleball confounds even scientists

June 2013 / Society

Editor’s Note

May 13, 2013April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

Watching the memorial service for Stompin’ Tom Connors reminded me of the public outpouring of grief that followed the Princess of Wales’s death in 1997. Diana once personified the romantic …

May 2013