The Literary Review of Canada

Inside the July/August 2010 Issue

• Getting Past “Yes” or “No”

  A review of Multicultiphobia, by Phil Ryan

  Jeffrey G. Reitz

• Here, Now

  Canadian writers, living on the edge of the world, have the best view.

  Stephen Marche

• Where Have All The Stories Gone?

  A review of A Reader on Reading, by Alberto Manguel

  Dana Hansen

• Hitting the Road

  A literary car-trip across Canada

  Ken McGoogan, Elizabeth Hay, John Ralston Saul, Lisa Moore, Linden MacIntyre, Steven Mayoff, Philip Lee, Madeleine Thien, Denise Chong, Joan Thomas, Sharon Butala, Thomas Trofimuk and Lee Henderson

• Bridging the Divide

  A review of Donna Kennedy-Glans' Unveiling the Breath: One Woman’s Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender Equality

  Sheema Khan

• The Book Lover's Tale

  A review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi

  Margaret Atwood

• Editor's Note

Also in this Issue:

• Fearful Acrimony

  The seductive danger of scapegoating Quebec.

  André Pratte

• The Truth Hurts

  A review of Harvey Cashore’s The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-Year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth about Mulroney, Schreiber and the Airbus Scandal

  Cecil Rosner

• Art for Whose Sake?

  A review of Simon Brault’s No Culture, No Future, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

  Sarah Jennings

• drydock

  A poem

  John Baglow

• Ripple

  A poem

  Philippa Dowding

• The Wind

  A poem

  Stephen Zeifman

• Wholeness

  A poem

  A.F. Moritz

• Urban Solace

  A review of Michael Helm’s Cities of Refuge

  Mary Jo Leddy

• Servant of the Servants of Distraction

  A review of Jack Hodgins’ The Master of Happy Endings

  Richard Cumyn

• Playing to His Base

  A review of Marci McDonald’s The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, and Tom Warner’s Losing Control: Canada’s Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights

  Jonathan Malloy

• The Lonely Planet Guide to Microcredit

  A review of Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos’ Saris on Scooters: How Microcredit Is Changing Village India

  Rohinton Medhora

• COVER ART AND PICTURES THROUGHOUT THE ISSUE BY WES TYRELL.

  Wes Tyrell is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. Prior to his life as a freelancer, Wes ran a hotel in Cuba and is currently writing about these bizarre experiences in a graphic novel, Fidel & I. Wes has drawn for Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, Dogs in Canada and the BBC. Contact Wes at www.westyrell.com.