Eye-catching

Best cover I’ve seen this week in Canada goes to the June issue of French magazine Philosophie, which has a girl with beetles for eyes! Looking at the back issues, it does a good line in surreal covers.

A better Daily Grind

This posting again comes from Halifax in canada, where I’ve just come in from The Daily Grind. In this case, that’s a big news agent with a coffee shop at the back, a book shop next door and a pub above.

Among my reading is Macleans - a Canadian news weekly from Rogers, the country’s biggest magazine publisher - and The Walrus, which looks just like The New Yorker.

The cover story on Macleans  is about trying to forecast the end of the Harry Potter series (Will Harry Die?). The story that caught my eye was that of a soldier, Chris Karigiannis,  who had written in to praise a wistful-looking girl on a recent cover of the magazine but had been killed in Afghanistan.