Here we go: Ja, No, Man will launch in South Africa on October 11th, 2007, at the Sandton City Mall, which I used to haunt as a dissafected teen in breakdance pants. Make sure to RSVP with the publishing Powers-That-Be if you’re interested in being there. Click on the invite below for details.

Here’s a piece I covered for CBC during the Toronto International Film Festival, on an unheralded yet superb Algerian filmmaker. Without men like him, vast tracts of history would simply be wiped from our collective memory.

For all those wealthy Walrus subscribers (I know - that 30 bucks seriously damages my annual Skittles budget), here’s a piece I wrote for their October issue, on a hushed up suicide bombing that took place in the small Gulf fiefdom of Qatar. The incident will be more fully explicated in The Sheikh’s Batmobile, but this provides a small taste.