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December 2008
"It was at this point that a routine prisoner transfer started looking like a barroom collaboration between Agatha Christie and Louis L'Amour." -- John Vaillant, in "The Lynching of Louie Sam."
December 2008
The Lynching of Louie Sam
by John Vaillant
In 1884, an American mob brought frontier justice to the Canadian border. …[more]
Health
Selective Testing
by Alexander Gelfand
Does Big Pharma stand to gain the most from new genetic tests for drug therapy? …[more]
More Stories in this issue
Book Review
Review: The Steve Machine
by Stuart Woods
A novel that toys with our notion of reality.…[more]
Poetry
Regret
by Troy Jollimore
“Grabbing you on the steps of the New York Public Library...”…[more]
International Affairs
The Archipelago of Fear
by Charles Montgomery
Are fortification and foreign aid making Kabul more dangerous?…[more]
Book Review
Review: Distantly Related To Freud
by Marianne Ackerman
“Sex was power, as long as you kept your head.”…[more]
Literature
The Last of the Wild Jews
by Charles Foran
Is it the end of an era for Jewish-American writing?…[more]
Letters
Letters: December 2008
by The Walrus Readers
Our Olympics swimming coverage makes one reader “sad.”…[more]
From the Blogs
Q&A;: Joseph Boyden
by Jared Bland
An interview with the winner of the 2008 Giller Prize…[more]
Book Review
Review: Entitlement
by Charles Foran
Brideshead Revisited and the Flyte to Canada…[more]
Walrus Cookbook
Mincemeat Pie
by Jared Bland, Danielle Groen & Brian Morgan
Your mother’s Christmas pudding recipe is all wrong. …[more]
Dance
Bare-Naked Soul
by Alexandra Redgrave
Montreal choreographer Dave St-Pierre pushes his dancers to their limits …[more]
Field Notes
Twilight in Tacheles
by Chris Turner
A legendary East Berlin art collective, fifteen years on…[more]
Book Review
Review: The Muskwa Assemblage
by Jared Bland
Don McKay’s alternative to cow placenta sculpture…[more]
Online Exclusive
Love Letters Contest
by The Walrus
Write a love letter for The Walrus and win $1,000!…[more]
Field Notes
The Birdman of Hastings Track
by Peter Valing
Pigeon pursuit in the Lower Mainlands of BC…[more]
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