The Walrus Magazine - Field Notes

When Guns Are Silenced by Shyam Selvadurai

2008-03-18T12:55+00:00

A mourning mother’s peace mission

kandy—The drive to Aniwatte, a suburb of Sri Lanka’s hill capital, takes me by way of a tunnel blasted through a rock. I leave behind the noise and chaos of downtown and emerge among...

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A Proper Schooling by Larry Krotz

2008-03-18T12:52+00:00

Canada’s shame through a foreign lens

portage la prairie—“They’re comfortable in front of the camera,” says Wanda Daniels. In short order, the administrator of the embryonic Indian Residential School Museum of...

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All In The Famiglia by Bruce Livesey

2008-03-18T12:37+00:00

Cracking omertÃ in Calabria

san luca—Rocco Romeo carries his silver-plated pistol in a leather holster, stowed in a glove compartment within arm’s reach of the driver’s seat. It’s a wise precaution,...

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Free Delivery by Jon Evans

2008-03-18T12:36+00:00

Birth in the Americas’ poorest country

port-au-prince—There are babies everywhere, babies like tribbles, babies galore. Nine exhausted mothers and their wrinkled newborns lie sprawled across the eight cots of the recovery room. In...

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Kultur, Jammed by Graeme Wood

2008-02-22T11:20+00:00

Paraguay’s holdout German colony

nueva germania—In a grubby plastic chair in front of his family’s shack, a shirtless Wilhelm Fischer swats blackflies from his face between sips of yerba matÃ© tea. He’s boasting in...

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Itfar at Damascus Gate by Marcello Di Cintio

2008-02-22T11:11+00:00

Digging in for a Ramadan feast

jerusalem—The setting September sun chases the devout from the streets of the Muslim Quarter and into their kitchens. It is Ramadan, and the sunset call to prayer means today’s fast is...

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The Greens Forest by Murray Whyte

2008-02-22T11:09+00:00

Vancouver Island’s slow food rebirth

Read our online exclusive recipes by three Vancouver Island chefs. * * * cowichan valley—Black clouds tumble past the bald...

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Close to the Noise by Mara Hvistendahl

2008-02-22T11:01+00:00

Motorcycle nostalgists in China

Shanghai—Liu Zhidong steps on the gas, and his Changjiang 750 motorcycle ascends the ramp onto the elevated highway. With the sidecar, where I sit squinting against the dusty air, it takes up...

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Separation Anxiety by Tyler Stiem

2008-02-08T13:19+00:00

Caring for civil war survivors in Somaliland’s only mental hospital

hargeisa — Abdillahi Abdi has stripped naked and set his clothes and bedding alight. His shouts ring out across the courtyard of Hargeisa Hospital’s mental health unit, where patients...

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Flyby Justice by Sara Minogue

2008-01-15T72:70+00:00

A day in Nunavut’s circuit court

kimmirut—Kitty Barrieau walks up the gravel road from the home she shares with her husband and five children to the modern school-cum-community centre. The distance is less than thirty paces,...

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