The Walrus Magazine - Field Notes

Virtual Emigration by Eliza Reid

2009-09-30T80:82+00:00

Faced with hard times, Icelandic architects are finding work in Canada

“To hell with the authorities of this horrible land!” — Loftur, in Híbýli vindanna (Where the Winds Dwell), by Bödvar Gudmundsson While the fictional emigrant Loftur was...

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Chop Chop Square by Adam St. Patrick

2009-05-18T93:42+00:00

Inside Saudi Arabia’s brutal justice system

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The Peace Plus One Social Club by Mitch Moxley

2009-04-23T12:28+00:00

Inside the budding Chinese environmental movement

There’s a palpable awkwardness at College Days Coffee in Beijing’s Central Business District, where a Valentine’s Day mixer is about to begin. The chit-chat (in English, Chinese,...

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Walk to the Black Rock by Shelagh Plunkett

2009-03-26T13:50+00:00

Montreal’s Irish community remembers its dead

Above: Laying the monumental stone near Victoria Bridge, 1860 (Image: McCord Museum) I lower my head and pretend to pray....

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Chop Chop Square by Adam St. Patrick

2009-03-26T13:16+00:00

Inside Saudi Arabia’s brutal justice system

A slender sword — four feet of shining steel, curved at the end — hovers high above a kneeling figure shrouded in white. Only the kneeler’s neck is exposed. Sixty or so men watch...

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Love and Rockets by Mohammed Hanif

2009-02-23T13:56+00:00

An India-Pakistan wedding, briefly interrupted by fighter jets.

Most weddings are attended by a few sulky guests. And every wedding produces some very stressed-out hosts. But the celebrants at a wedding I was at recently in Bangalore weren’t worried about...

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The Birdman of Hastings Track by Peter Valing

2008-11-11T75:00+00:00

Pigeon pursuit in the Lower Mainlands of BC

burnaby — Maurice Doyle sips tea at Starbucks, waiting for his trap to fill. “Pigeon catching came just at the right time,” he muses. “Just as I was beginning to feel like my...

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Tiger Balm by Larry Frolick

2008-11-11T72:70+00:00

Nirvana amid the jungle cats of Bangkok

catskanchanaburi — Outside of Bangkok, I am following a tight motorcade that clings to narrow blacktop roads lined with ratchaphruek trees, all bursting with seasonal, hot yellow blossoms. It...

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Twilight in Tacheles by Chris Turner

2008-11-10T20:20+00:00

A legendary East Berlin art collective, fifteen years on

BERLIN — I can’t remember exactly how I discovered Tacheles. I know it was the winter of 1993, just before Christmas, and I was staying with my family in a hotel near Alexanderplatz. The...

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Word is Born by Arno Kopecky

2008-11-10T18:58+00:00

A new tongue emerges from Kenya’s cabdrivers

NAIROBI — We’re two drinks into slam poetry night when Njeri Wangari takes the stage. Her dreadlocks, tied up with a purple scarf, lend her an imperious air as she surveys the dimly lit...

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