TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. EDITORIAL - NOAM CHOMSKY DISSECTS BIN LADEN
The 'apocalypse now' ingredients are now on the table as America and its allies prepare to turn up the heat on terrorism.2. BEFORE NIGHT FALLS - Interview of Director Julian Schnabel - Cynthia Fuchs
Who explains how he helped heterosexual Javier Bardem play the role of the Cuban homosexual, Arenas. "The key to great acting is to bring everyone into the present."3. HOMOPHOBIA IN LOWER EGYPT - Hossam Bahgat
Scapegoating and beguile along the banks of the Nile: a community caught in the cross-fire of ourtrageous political ambition.4. MY STOMACH IS A FOREST - John Lavery
Can there be anything worse than cold-blooded murder? A short story that leaves you short of breath.5. A LITERARY CONSIDERATION OF THE CYCLOP - Robert J. Lewis
[Of] The difference between a dead literary critic [their] and dead [own] snake on the [making] road. There are skid marks in front of the snake.6. THE CHESS CLOCK FOR ION: A poem - David Solway
The pieces are black and white, and there are those who would have life conform to that simplicity.7. MADY: MY ART IS MY CONFESSION TO THE WORLD
If style comes about when the artist is able to recreate the world according his/her values, Mady must rank among the very best of Canada's young painters.8. Death of the (Canadian) Novel - Michael Bryson
"If reality is unknowable, why bother writing," polemicizes the literary critic. Will the novel succumb to predictions of its demise or strike back?9. The Evolution of man - Maya Khankhoje
A supernova of a poem that pits the theory of Stephen Hawking against The Creator -- in the Act of Creation.10. THE CALL: A Short Story - Rawi Hage
From Voltaire's Candide, to Beirut, Nairobi and now Manhattan: there is no escaping the contingency factor.