Recently added articles from Literary Review of Canada:
Does Independence Matter?
Jul 01, 2008; ... Essay From Elections Canada to the nuclear watchdog, the Harper government seems to disagree. The old saw is that if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. For Canada's federal government, the hammer is partisanship and, of late, the unlucky nails ...
Are We Being Helpful?
Jul 01, 2008; ... Are We Being Helpful? Western interventions are called to account in this study of the aftermath of war. ERNA PARIS No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes against Humanity Patricia Marchak McGill-Queens University Press 375 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780773533684 At the ...
Gridlock at the Border
Jul 01, 2008; ... Gridlock at the Border How U.S. security concerns are weakening Canadian competitiveness. TOM KIERANS The Impacts of 9/n on Canada-U.S. Trade Steven Globerman and Paul Storer University of Toronto Press 176 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780802097866 In the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy, the ...
Unlearned Lessons
Jul 01, 2008; ... Unlearned Lessons The destruction of Africville still Halifax. STEPHEN KIMBER Razing Africville: A Geography of Racism Jennifer J. Nelson University of Toronto Press 189 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780802092526 In the 40 years since Halifax city fathers wiped it off the face of the earth, ...
O Captain, My Captain
Jul 01, 2008; ... O Captain, My Captain Under the shadows of Cook and Napoleon, Vancouver was a victim of bad timing. DANIEL FRANCIS Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver Stephen Bown Douglas and Mclntyre 254 pages, hardcover ISBN 9781553653394 In 1992 my wife and I ...
Involuntary Immigrants
Jul 01, 2008; ... Involuntary Immigrants Recent books reveal new angles to the Home Children story. SUANNE KELMAN Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 Roy Parker University of British Columbia Press 384 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780774815406 Searching for Billie Freda Jackson ...
Outside The Hut
Jul 01, 2008; ... Cloud moves over the sun; cradled head wiggles for light On a beach the sand becomes dense and we insert all toes in the packed cool grip of it. Into heat of a core stew dunked in the earth, truculent flame-bomb which even if artistic you cannot ...
Yellow Bathing Suit
Jul 01, 2008; ... A Parisian memory - the seventeenth arrondissement, Jean-Guy eating chèvre, walnuts, sweet pear with lemon and salt in our bed. Today's heat-wave jog, this tentative body, wanting to dive into nostalgia, a sickness like hate. Yet that bathing suit, his wiry weave ...
Hotels
Jul 01, 2008; ... Let's sing them an anthem, hum them a hymn. Glory be each numbered door, every last white towel, even the frayed. Every day is laundry day, you always come up clean. Hotel bibles know their place (drawers), they pass no judgement, nor does the pool, an ...
The Street Names of Toronto
Jul 01, 2008; ... I. A great benefactor, you planted more fruit trees in the aftermath of your tragic death than during your expansive life. You discovered gold and had music piped in. And then your name lost an "e" in a fencing accident. In 1927 you opened the ...
The Holocaust in Hungary
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Holocaust in Hungary A family saga highlights altruism alongside deliberate cruelty. ANNA PORTER Gratitude Joseph Kertes Viking Canada 609 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780670066698 This story has haunted me my whole life and I am writing a novel inspired by a family anecdote. The events in ...
Demons and Deities
Jul 01, 2008; ... Demons and Deities A mythic novel explores the extremes we go to when a child dies. CAROL BRUNEAU Falling Anne Simpson McClelland and Stewart 318 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780771080906 Tragedy falls from the blue of a Nova Scotian beach day when 17-year-old Lisa MacKenzie rolls her ...
Closed Off from the World
Jul 01, 2008; ... Closed Off from the World A new book catalogues the injustices of breakaway Mormon communities. MARTHA BAILEY The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect Daphne Bramham Random House 432 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780307355881 Joseph Smith's revelation ...
Is Canada Anti-American?
Jul 01, 2008; ... Is Canada Anti-American? This book says yes; our reviewer says only partly. MICHAEL ADAMS American Myths: What Canadians Think They Know about the United States Rudyard Griffiths, editor Key Porter 213 pages, hardcover ISBN 9781552639832 Anyone interested in Canada and the United States ...
Reimagining English
Jul 01, 2008; ... Reimagining English From globalization to the Internet, the strains on our language are enormous. WARREN CLEMENTS The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English Mark Abley Random House 272 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780679311027 The strength of the English language has long been ...
Two Russians in Canada
Jul 01, 2008; ... Two Russians in Canada One a reformer, the other a spy: their stories are only partly told. WESLEY WARK The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika Christopher Shulgan McClelland and Stewart 359 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780771079962 Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of ...
The Hi-Tech Sub-Sahara
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Hi-Tech Sub-Sahara India's economic energy contrasts dramatically with its immense social concerns. KASI V.P. RAO India Express: The Future of a New Superpower Daniel Lak Viking 295 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780670064847 It is easy these days to walk into a bookstore and pick up any ...
Letters & Responses
Jul 01, 2008; ... To the Editor: Mark Frieds review of my recent book, Celebrity Diplomacy, provides a considerable measure of encouragement mixed with a dose of disappointment ("Politics as Spectacle," June 2008). From the first lines of his review, Fried drills down to the core of the book's argument: ...
Politics as Spectacle
Jun 01, 2008; ... Politics as Spectacle Celebrity Diplomacy Andrew F. Cooper Paradigm Publishers 149 pages, softcover ISBN 9781594514791 Can Brangelina and Bono really change the public sphere, or just make it glitzier? In the spring of 2004, I had the chance a million 30-somethings would give ...
Possessing Anarchist Tendencies
Jun 01, 2008; ... Possessing Anarchist Tendencies Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War Michael Petrou University of British Columbia Press 282 pages, softcover ISBN 9780774814188 The Mac-Paps, it seems, were not your ideal communists. About 1,700 Canadian volunteers fought on the ...