June 2008

Politics as Spectacle

Can Brangelina and Bono really change the public sphere, or just make it glitzier?

When Women Rule

The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, Canada’s first and only female prime minister, reviews a psychological study of three 20th-century female political giants.

“Joga Bonito”

A Vancouver soccer addict bares his soul

Possessing Anarchist Tendencies

The Mac-Paps, it seems, were not your ideal communists.

Do Genetics Really Tell The Tale?

Boys who underachieve do well. Girls who do well underachieve. Why?

Sharia and Its Discontents

Can we find more nuanced ways of examining the Other?

Métis Imposter

A white Ontarian assumed Métis identity and convinced many, including himself

Counting Backwards

A poem

As a Merchant Breaks in a Fine Horse, Master Yourself

Space Is a Temporal Concept

Catherine’s Eyes

Ravines and Reality

A bumbling narrator searches for the dark and telling moment in his past

A Canadian at the Cabaret

Exploring gay desire in pre-war Berlin.

Uganda's Endless War

Zealotry, child soldiers and the deeper roots of Joseph Kony’s 21-year rebellion.

Mystery and Ambiguity

A writer excavates an unsolved crime in Saskatchewan.

Borderline Differences

How Canada and the United States treat their sexually diverse citizens.

Where Books and Business Meet

Global publishers flock each year to a seven-centuries-old institution in Germany.

The Rebel Sibling

A Canadian tycoon’s brother grows up a communist and an artist.

What Does an Indian Look Like?

A massive study chronicles Native representations on Canadian television.

WHO Is Brock Chisholm?

Sometimes being there is just not good enough

Olympic Dreams and Fairy Tales

How will Canada’s Olympians acquit themselves in Beijing?