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  • Elizabeth Abbott

    Elizabeth Abbott, senior research associate and former dean of women at Trinity College in the University of Toronto, is the author of several books, including A History of Marriage (Penguin, 2009), shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction.

    • Love and Marriage Canadian-Style

      A review of Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930, by Dan Azoulay

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Mark Abley

    Mark Abley grew up mostly in Lethbridge and Saskatoon, but has lived in the Montreal area for more than 25 years. His non-fiction book Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages was translated into French, Spanish and Japanese.

    • From Manners to Manhood

      A review of Toby: A Man, by Todd Babiak

      Published in the September 2010 Issue.

  • Michael Adams

    Michael Adams is the president of the Environics group of companies and the author of Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism.

  • Donald Akenson

    Donald Akenson’s latest intercalation of fact and fiction is his homage to the Babylonian Talmud, entitled An Irish History of Civilization, two volumes (Granta, 2005–06, published in Canada by McGill-Queen’s University Press).

    • A Classic Victorian Yarn

      A review of The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels, by Janet Soskice.

  • Kamal Al-Solaylee

    Kamal Al-Solaylee is a professor at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism and a former theatre critic for The Globe and Mail. He holds a PhD in Victorian literature from Nottingham University, and has been published in Eye Weekly, the National Post, Report on Business magazine and Canadian Notes & Queries.

    • Fictional Fetish

      A review of Anosh Irani's Dahanu Road

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue.

  • Salem Alaton

    Salem Alaton teaches journalism at Humber College and the University of Guelph-Humber.

    • Success in the Slums?

      A review of Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World, by Jeb Brugmann

      Published in the December 2009 Issue.

    • Darwinists and Divinity

      A review of Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science, by Michael Ruse

  • Jody Aliesan

    Jody Aliesan’s poem comes from a manuscript in progress with the working title of “Taking Possession,” which she hopes someday to join her eleven published books and chapbooks. She lives in Vancouver.

    • Nothing lasts, nothing’s finished…

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

  • Dimitry Anastakis

    Dimitry Anastakis teaches history at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He recently co-edited a special issue of Canadian Public Policy on the automobile and its industry.

    • An Exaggerated Demise

      Boosted by still-thriving industry, Ontario is headed for an economic renaissance.

  • Marianne Apostolides

    Marianne Apostolides is a writer and critic based in Toronto. Her novel Swim explores the eroticism of language and family. It was published by BookThug earlier this year.

    • Voices Unheard

      A review of Priscila Uppal's To Whom It May Concern.

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

  • David Arnason

    David Arnason is a Winnipeg writer who teaches at the University of Manitoba. His novel Baldur’s Song: A Saga will be published by Turnstone Press in the summer of 2010.

    • A Gem Worth Waiting For

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

  • Joanne Arnott

    Joanne Arnott’s first book of poetry, Wiles of Girlhood, was published in 1991, winning the Gerald Lambert Award for the best first book of poetry. “Manitoba Pastoral” is taken from Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology, edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer (Broadview Press, 2001).

  • Amir Attaran

    Amir Attaran is a lawyer and scientist and Canada Research Chair in Law, Population Health and Global Development Policy in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at the University of Ottawa.

    • The Ugly Canadian

      Forget middle power. Forget model citizen. We're becoming one of the bad kids on the block.

    • Sex Slaves in Canada

      A review of Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking, by Benjamin Perrin.

  • Margaret Atwood

    Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 35 books. Her most recent books are Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (Anchor Canada, 2003), and the novel Oryx and Crake (McClelland and Stewart, 2003).

  • Stephen Azzi

    Stephen Azzi is associate professor of history at Laurentian University and author of Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999). He was born and raised in British Columbia and, like Alastair Gillespie, considers himself a British Columbian despite living most of his life in Ontario.

    • The Patriotic Executive

      A review of Made in Canada: A Businessman’s Adventures in Politics, by Alastair W. Gillespie, with Irene Sage

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

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  • Ken Babstock

    Ken Babstock’s books of poems include Mean, Days into Flatspin and Airstream Land Yacht (all published by Anansi in 1999, 2001 and 2006). A finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Winterset Prize and the Griffin Prize, and winner of the Trillium Award for Poetry, he is, unwisely given the presence of a baby in the house, trying to read A Secular Age by Charles Taylor as well as Opening Gambits: Essays on Art and Philosophy by Mark Kingwell and The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon.

    • Lee Atwater in Blowing Snow

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

  • John Baglow

    John Baglow is a writer, researcher, and social and policy consultant in Ottawa. He blogs at drdawgsblawg.blogspot.com.

  • Martha Bailey

    Martha Bailey is a professor of law at Queen's University.

    • Closed Off from the World

      A review of Daphne Bramham’s The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect

  • James C. Baillie

    James C. Baillie is a business lawyer, a director of Canada’s National History Society and a member of the Senate of the 48th Highlanders of Canada.

    • A Battle for Reputation

      A review of The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie, by Tim Cook.

      Published in the December 2010 Issue.

  • John W. Barger

    John Wall Barger has poems forthcoming in Rattle and Prairie Fire, and a second book, Hummingbird, with Palimpsest Press.

  • John Barton

    John Barton’s ninth book of poetry is Hymn (Brick Books, 2009). Winner of three Archibald Lampman Awards, an Ottawa Book Award, a CBC Literary Award and a National Magazine Award, he edits The Malahat Review in Victoria and is writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton during the 2010–2011 academic year.

  • Sylvia Bashevkin

    Sylvia Bashevkin is principal of University College and a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She wishes to thank Csaba Nikolenyi, Greg Anderson, Amanda Bittner, Alain Noël and colleagues in the audience for insightful questions and comments on this subject at the Canadian Political Science Association meetings in Montreal in June 2010.

  • Michel Basilières

    Michel Basilières is the author of Black Bird (Knopf Canada, 2003), which has garnered several honours and is available in four languages. He teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto and Humber College, while slowly carving out another novel.

  • Dean Bavington

    Dean Bavington holds a Canada Research Chair in Environmental History at Nipissing University. His latest book, Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse, was published by the University of British Columbia Press in 2010.

    • Ocean Battleground

      A review of Still Fishin’: The B.C. Fishing Industry Revisited, by Alan Haig-Brown, and The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy and Contested Science, by Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • John Beckwith

    John Beckwith, composer and professor emeritus of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, is co-editor of A Weinzweig Collection, essays about the life and work of the late composer John Weinzweig, forthcoming from Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

  • Gerard Beirne

    Gerard Beirne is an Irish writer who has lived in Canada for more than ten years. He has recently been appointed writer‐in‐residence at the University of New Brunswick for 2008/09. His collection of poems Digging My Own Grave (Dedalus Press, 1997) won second prize in the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His novel The Eskimo in the Net (Marion Boyars Publishers, 2003) was short listed for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. His story Sightings of Bono was adapted into a short film featuring Bono.

  • John Bell

    John Bell is the director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace, a peacebuilding centre in Madrid. He is a former United Nations and Canadian diplomat who specializes in Middle East affairs.

    • Up in the Air

      A review of Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb, edited by Janice Gross Stein

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Michael Bell

    Michael Bell is the Paul Martin Senior Scholar in International Diplomacy at the University of Windsor and co-chair of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative. A career foreign service officer, he served as Canada’s ambassador to Jordan, Egypt and Israel.

    • Cloak and Dagger Politics

      A review of Castles Made of Sand: A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and Intervention in the Middle East, by André Gerolymatos

    • Brotherhood of the Dispossessed

      A review of Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone, by Michelle Shephard

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • John Bemrose

    John Bemrose’s most recent novel is The Last Woman (McClelland and Stewart, 2009). He lives in Toronto.

    • Levitating over the Abyss

      A review of Waiting for Joe, by Sandra Birdsell

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • Nachman Ben-Yehuda

    Nachman Ben-Yehuda is a sociologist at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he is the director of the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies. He has written books on political assassinations in Israel, the Masada myth, betrayal and treason. His most recent book, Theocratic Democracy: The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism (Oxford University Press, 2010), focuses on the secular-religious conflict in Israel.

    • Memoir as Utopia

      A review of The Moral Lives of Israelis: Reinventing the Dream State, by David Berlin

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Paul W. Bennett

    Paul W. Bennett is director of Schoolhouse Consulting in Halifax and author of The Grammar School: Striving for Excellence for 50 Years in a Public School World (Formac, 2009).

    • In the Citadel’s Shadow

      A review of Thomas H. Raddall's Halifax: Warden of the North, Updated edition with new chapters by Stephen Kimber

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue.

  • David J. Bercuson

    David J. Bercuson is a professor of history and the director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. He is also a senior research fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

    • Plus ça change…

      A review of Solving the People Puzzle: Cultural Intelligence and Special Operations Forces, by Emily Spencer

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • Aaron Berhane

    Aaron Berhane was born in Asmara, Eritrea, in 1969. Co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Eritrea’s now banned largest independent newspaper, Setit, he escaped arrest in 2001 by fleeing to Sudan and subsequently settling in Toronto. He started Meftih, a monthly newspaper serving Toronto’s 20,000-strong Eritrean community. He is also a member of the Writers in Exile Committee of PEN Canada.

  • Joe Berridge

    Joe Berridge is a partner at Urban Strategies Inc. and the Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in the Program in Planning at the University of Toronto.

    • The Ever-Expanding City

      A review of Andrew Sancton's The Limits of Boundaries: Why City-Regions Cannot Be Self-Governing and The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto's Sprawl by John Sewell.

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

    • Toronto Hard and Soft

      A review of Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront, edited by Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley, and Imagining Toronto, by Amy Lavender Harris

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

  • Julie Berry

    Julie Berry was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, and she still lives and works in this small, southwestern Ontario city. Her poems have appeared in grain, Room of One’s Own, Quarry, Canadian Forum and Carousel and in numerous anthologies. Her first book of poetry, worn thresholds, was published in 1995 by Brick and reprinted in 2006. Two of her prose poems won in the 2005 short grain contest. Julie recently completed a second collection of poems entitled little strip room in heaven.

  • Christopher Berzins

    Christopher Berzins is head of public diplomacy and research at Canada's embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The opinions expressed in this essay are his own.

    • Let's Hear It for Being Average

      An essay.

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

  • Conrad Black

    Conrad Black is the author of biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and has been publisher of several newspapers.

    • What Do We Owe?

      A review of Margaret Atwood’s Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

    • Suckered by America

      A review of Doing the Continental: A New Canadian-American Relationship, by David Dyment

  • Charles Blattberg

    Charles Blattberg is a professor of political philosophy at the Université de Montréal. His most recent book is Patriotic Elaborations: Essays in Practical Philosophy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).

    • Bad Faith?

      A review of David Novak's In Defense of Religious Liberty.

    • The Real Tariq Ramadan

      A review of The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective, by Gregory Baum

    • The Problem with Neutrality

      A review of Suffer the Children unto Me: An Open Enquiry into the Clerical Abuse Scandal, by Michael W. Higgins and Peter Kavanagh

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • W. A. Bogart

    W.A. Bogart is a professor of law at the University of Windsor.

    • "This Dreadful Vice"

      A review of James F. Cosgrave and Thomas R. Klassen's Casino State: Legalized Gambling in Canada.

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

  • Marian Botsford Fraser

    Marian Botsford Fraser is a Toronto-based freelance writer and broadcaster.

    • History Etched in Stone

      A review of Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory, by Jane Irwin, photographs by John de Visser

      Published in the November 2008 Issue.

    • Violence and Beauty

      A review of Patrick Lane’s Red Dog, Red Dog

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

    • Our Problem with Women

      A review of Sylvia Bashevkin's Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada's Unfinished Democracy.

      Published in the July/August 2009 Issue.

    • In Search of Altruism

      A review of Benevolence, by Cynthia Holz

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Tim Bousquet

    Tim Bousquet has worked as a municipal reporter across North America and is currently the news editor at The Coast, a weekly newspaper in Halifax.

    • The Crack Cocaine of Gambling

      A review of Terminal Damage: The Politics of VLTs in Atlantic Canada, by Peter McKenna

      Published in the October 2008 Issue.

  • Tim Bowling

    Tim Bowling is a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer living in Edmonton who has published twelve books, including a book of poems, The Book Collector (Nightwood Editions, 2008), the non-fiction The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture (Nightwood Editions 2007) and a novel, The Bone Sharps (Gaspereau Press, 2007).

    • The Book Collector

      Published in the April 2009 Issue.

  • Sue Bowness

    Sue Bowness is a Toronto-based writer and Web designer, whose work is online at www.codeword.ca. Her literary journal, Another Toronto Quarterly, is also online at www.anothertorontoquarterly.com.

  • Ehor Boyanowsky

    Ehor Boyanowsky teaches criminal psychology at Simon Fraser University. He lives with his wife, Cristina Martini, and his English setter, Thompson S. Hunter, at Hole in the Wall near Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia. He divides his time between wandering the rainforest coast and the more remote desert landscape of the Thompson River Valley.

    • Hunt for Meaning

      A review of A Hunter’s Confession, by David Carpenter

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

  • Regan Boychuk

    Regan Boychuk lives in Calgary, where he researches Canadian foreign policy.

  • Leah Bradshaw

    Leah Bradshaw is a professor of political science at Brock University. Her recent publications have compared ancient and modern political thinkers on tyranny, empire and oligarchy.

    • The Ties that Bind

      A review of Rebecca Kingston's Public Passion: Rethinking the Grounds for Political Justice

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Dionne Brand

    Dionne Brand Dionne Brand is the poet laureate of the City of Toronto. Her volume Ossuaries (McClelland and Stewart, 2010) won the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize.

  • Patrick Brethour

    Patrick Brethour is the British Columbia editor for The Globe and Mail; previously he reported on the Alberta oil sector.

    • A Slippery Debate

      A review of Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands, by Ezra Levant

  • Douglas Brown

    Douglas Brown is an associate professor of sport history at the University of Calgary.

  • Jeb Brugmann

    Jeb Brugmann has worked on urban issues in 28 countries and is the author of Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World (Penguin Canada, 2009).

    • The Mystery of Cities

      A review of The Wealth and Poverty of Regions: Why Cities Matter, by Mario Polèse.

  • Carol Bruneau

    Carol Bruneau is the Halifax-based author of two collections of short stories and three novels, the most recent of which is Glass Voices. She teaches writing at NSCAD University.

  • Rorke Bryan

    Rorke Bryan is a professor emeritus of geography and environmental science and is the former dean of forestry at the University of Toronto. He has specialized in soil erosion and dryland management with extensive field research experience in Alberta, Kenya, Tanzania, Mexico and several Mediterranean countries.

    • Nature's Cathedral

      A review of The Global Forest, by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

      Published in the September 2010 Issue.

  • Frances Bula

    Frances Bula is a Vancouver journalist who writes about city politics and urban issues for Vancouver magazine, The Globe and Mail and her blog, “State of Vancouver.”

    • Searching for the Ideal City

      A review of Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder, by Ken Greenberg

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Ian Burgham

    Ian Burgham has published four collections of poetry, including The Grammar of Distance (Tightrope Books, 2010), A Confession of Birds (MacLean Dubois, 2003) and The Stone Skippers (Tightrope Books, 2007). A Weight of Bees (Tightrope Books) will be launched in the United Kingdom and in Canada in 2012. His work has been published in literary journals in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He is currently collaborating on two art/poetry projects with Uno Hoffmann.

  • John Burns

    John Burns is executive editor of Vancouver magazine, a communications instructor and a freelance book editor.

    • An Editor’s Delicate Art

      A review of Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others, by Douglas Gibson

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • Jeff Bursey

    Jeff Bursey’s literary criticism has appeared in American Book Review,the Review of Contemporary Fiction and the Literary Review, among other publications. His first book, Verbatim: A Novel (Enfield and Wizenty, 2010), is a satire, set in a parliament, told only in lists of members, letters between bureaucrats and political debates.

    • Shop Girl Blues

      A review of Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail, by Caitlin Kelly

      Published in the September 2011 Issue.

  • Sharon Butala

    Sharon Butala is the author of The Girl in Saskatoon: A Meditation on Friendship, Memory and Murder, published in 2008.

    • A True Canadian Hero

      A review of Maggie Siggins’s Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Story of Louis Riel’s Grandmother

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

    • Mothers with Alzheimer's

      A review of Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer's, A Daughter in Search of the Past, by Caterina Edwards, and Circling My Mother: A Memoir, by Mary Gordon

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

    • Hitting the Road

      A literary car-trip across Canada

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  • Sean T. Cadigan

    Sean T. Cadigan is a professor who specializes in social history and is the head of the Department of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

    • Childbirth, Cash and Culture

      A review of Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration, 1815–1914, by Donald Harman Akenson

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • Peter Calamai

    Peter Calamai has been a foreign correspondent, national reporter and editorial page editor for Southam newspapers and, most recently, science reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star. He is now freelancing to avoid the catastrophe of retirement.

  • Gary Caldwell

    Gary Caldwell is an author and the editor of numberous collections, including Juifs et réalités juives au Quebec (Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture) (with Pierre Anctil). His book La Question du Québec Anglais was published by the Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture in 1994. He lives in Ste-Edwige, Quebec.

    • The Sins of the Abbé Groulx

      A review of Esther Delsile's The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-semitism and the delirium of extremist right-wing nationalism in French Canada from 1929 to 1939 and Mordecai Richler's Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country

  • Christina Cameron

    Christina Cameron holds the Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage at the Université de Montréal. During a 35-year career at Parks Canada, she served as director general of national historic sites.

    • Selling Tradition

      A review of In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia, by Ian McKay and Robin Bates.

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

  • Kat Cameron

    Kat Cameron’s fiction and poetry have appeared in CV2, Descant, Prairie Fire, PRISM international and South Dakota Review. With an MA in creative writing from the University of New Brunswick, she teaches English at Concordia University College.

  • Jason Camlot

    Jason Camlot's books include Language Acts: Anglo-Quebec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (co-edited with Todd Swift, Vehicule, 2007) and The Debaucher[poems] (Insomniac, 2008). He is chair of the English Department at Concordia University.

    • Recapturing Past Glory

      A review of Linda Leith's Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis.

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

  • Kim Campbell

    The Right Honourable Kim Campbell was Canada’s first and only female prime minister. She is currently active internationally in promoting the advancement of women and from 2001 to 2003 she taught a course called “Gender and Power” at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

    • When Women Rule

      A review of Blema S. Steinberg's Women in Power: The Personality and Leadership Style of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher

  • Leslie Campbell

    Leslie Campbell is senior associate and director of Middle East programs at the Washington-based National Democratic Institute. Before joining NDI he was chief of staff to New Democratic Party leader Audrey McLaughlin and an assistant to Manitoba NDP leader Gary Doer.

    • Audacious Undertaking

      A review of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

    • Split Personality

      A review of Bob Rae's Exporting Democracy: The Risks and Rewards of Pursuing a Good Idea

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue.

  • Michael Capstick

    Colonel (Retired) Michael Capstick has worked in Afghanistan since 2005 as a soldier, as an advisor to the Afghan government and as the country director of a non-governmental organization based in Kabul.

    • The Afghan Decade

      A review of The Long Way Back: Afghanistan's Quest for Peace, by Chris Alexander, and Come from the Shadows: The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan, by Terry Glavin

  • Warren Cariou

    Warren Cariou teaches aboriginal literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba.

  • Donald Carveth

    Donald Carveth is a professor of sociology and social and political thought at York University’s Glendon College. A training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis, he is past editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychoanalyse. Many of his publications, including his recent essays on guilt and its evasion, are available on his website.

    • Conscience Aside

      An online review of John W. Dean's Conservatives Without Conscience and Robert Altemeyer's The Authoritarians

  • Stephanie Cavanaugh

    Stephanie Cavanaugh is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. She studies inter-cultural contact and religious conversion in the early modern Atlantic world. Her hometown is Fredericton, New Brunswick.

  • Kate Cayley

    Kate Cayley’s poetry has appeared most recently in The Antigonish Review, CV2 and The Fiddlehead. Her play, After Akhmatova, will be produced in spring 2011 as part of Tarragon Theatre’s 40th anniversary season. Her first book, a young adult novel called Marrying the Hangman, will be published next year by Annick Press. She is working very slowly on a first collection of poems, tentatively titled Signs and Wonders.

    • blind twins facing away from each other, photograph 1880

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

    • Zola, bravest of Leonardo’s apprentices, leaps from the tower of San Francesco, wearing his master’s wings

      Published in the December 2010 Issue.

  • J. E. Chamberlin

    J. Edward Chamberlin has retired from the University of Toronto, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. His books include If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories and Hore: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations, both published by Vintage in 2004 and 2007 respectively.

    • Eat, Worship, Fear, Coddle

      A review of Erika Ritter's The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships.

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

  • Adam Chapnick

    Adam Chapnick is the deputy director of education at the Canadian Forces College and an associate professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada.

    • Cold War, Bright Stars

      A review of Defence and Discovery: Canada’s Military Space Program, 1945–74, by Andrew B. Godefroy

      Published in the September 2011 Issue.

  • Steven P. Chatfield

    Steven P. Chatfield researches regeneration in a variety of agricultural and agro-forestry crops at the University of Toronto. He has also worked in plant agriculture at the University of Guelph and at the International Agricultural Research Centre in the United Kingdom.

    • Down on the Farm

      A review of Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, by Brian Brett, and The War in the Country: How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future, by Thomas F. Pawlick

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

  • Timothy Cheek

    Timothy Cheek is a professor and the Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. His most recent book is Living with Reform: China Since 1989 (Zed Books, 2006) and he is editor of The Cambridge Critical Introduction to Mao (forthcoming, 2009).

    • The Karaoke Classics

      A review of Daniel A. Bell's China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

  • Sam Cheuk

    Sam Cheuk has a master of fine arts in creative writing from New York University. He has published with Prism International, Fiddlehead and Dalhousie Review.

  • Denise Chong

    Denise Chong’s latest book, Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship, was published in 2009.

  • Margaret Christakos

    Margaret Christakos is the author of Sooner (Coach House Books, 2005) and five other poetry collections, as well as of a novel, Charisma (Pedlar Press, 2001).

  • Andrew Clark

    Andrew Clark writes the weekly “Road Sage” humour column for The Globe and Mail. He is the director of the Comedy: Writing and Performance program at Humber College.

    • Grief Observed

      A review of Steven Hayward's Don't Be Afraid.

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

  • Ian D. Clark

    Ian D. Clark is a professor in the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. He is co-author of Academic Transformation: The Forces Reshaping Higher Education in Ontario (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009) with Greg Moran, Michael Skolnik and David Trick. He is former president of the Council of Ontario Universities.

  • Stephen Clarkson

    Stephen Clarkson co-authored the two-volume Trudeau and Our Times in the 1990s (McClelland and Stewart, 1992, 1997) and wrote The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics (University of British Columbia Press, 2005). The third volume of his trilogy on North America since 9/11—Dependent America? How Canada and Mexico Construct U.S. Power—was published this fall by the University of Toronto Press.

    • An American de Tocqueville in Canada

      A review of Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care: Democratic Pluralism at Risk, by Charles Doran

      Published in the September 2002 Issue.

    • Has the Centre Vanished?

      The past and future of the middle ground in Canadian politics.

  • Warren Clements

    Warren Clements writes a weekly column on words for The Globe and Mail and is co-author of The Globe and Mail Style Book.

  • David Clink

    David Clink is the artistic director of the Rowers Pub Reading Series. He is the webmaster of poetrymachine.com, a resource for poets. His first book of poetry, Eating Fruit Out of Season, was published by Tightrope Books in 2008.

    • Darkness Then a Blown Kiss

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

  • Susan Cody

    Susan Cody’s poems have appeared in Van Gogh’s Ear, Barrow Street and watchwordpress. She teaches in the Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University.

    • Small Things and an Irony

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

    • Porridge and Ice

      Published in the December 2009 Issue.

  • Elizabeth S. Cohen

    Elizabeth S. Cohen is a professor at York University who writes about gender in early modern Italy.

    • Women at Risk

      A review of Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence, by Nicholas Terpstra

      Published in the October 2010 Issue.

  • John R. Colombo

    John Robert Colombo is known for his compilations of Canadiana. In 2010, he published two volumes of poetry, End of Greatness and Poems of Space and Time. He compiled and introduced The Sumuru Omnibus (five mystery novels written by Sax Rohmer) and co-edited and introduced Tesseracts 14 (the annual anthology of Canadian fantastic literature).

    • The Court Jester

      A review of Peter C. Newman's Heroes: Canadian Champions, Dark Horses and Icons and Mavericks: Canadian Rebels, Renegades and Anti-Heroes

  • Anne Compton

    Anne Compton is the author of Processional (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2005), which won the Governor General’s Award for poetry and the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. Opening the Island (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2002) won the Atlantic Poetry Prize and was short- listed for the John and Margaret Savage Award. In 2008, she won the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts and a National Magazine Award. She is the author of numerous scholarly works including A.J.M. Smith: Canadian Metaphysical (ECW Press, 1994) and Meetings with Maritime Poets: Interviews (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2006).

  • Duff Conacher

    Duff Conacher is the coordinator of Democracy Watch, a Canadian democratic reform organization.

    • One and a Half Cheers

      A review of Peter Russell’s Two Cheers for Minority Government: The Evolution of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy

      Published in the September 2008 Issue.

  • Ray Conlogue

    Ray Conlogue is a former arts writer for The Globe and Mail and author of a book about the role of the Enlightenment in creating Canada’s French/English divide, as well as being a translator, teacher and author of a young adult novel.

    • Delicious Canadian Ham

      A review of Up Till Now: The Autobiography, by William Shatner with David Fisher and In Spite of Myself: A Memoir, by Christopher Plummer

    • Revisiting a Powerful Myth

      A review of The Children’s Crusade: Medieval History, Modern Mythistory by Gary Dickson and Children's Crusade by Murray Schafer

    • Culture Clash

      A review of The Authenticity Hoax: How We Got Lost Finding Ourselves, by Andrew Potter, and More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College Is Crap and Idiots Think They’re Right, by Laura Penny

  • Jan Conn

    Jan Conn’s most recent book of poetry is Botero’s Beautiful Horses (Brick Books, 2009). Her poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including the Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2009. She won the inaugural (2006) Malahat Review PK Page Founders’ Award Poetry Prize and a CBC Literary Award for poetry (2003). She lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and is a research scientist who works on the ecology and evolution of insects. Please visit www.janconn.com.

    • Unquantifiable

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • Margaret Conrad

    Margaret Conrad is Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick.

  • Ramsay Cook

    Ramsay Cook is a retired historian and former editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

    • George Grant and the Jews

      A review of Exiles from Nowhere: The Jews and the Canadian Elite, by Alan Mendelson

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

    • Homegrown Fascism

      A review of The Canadian Führer: The Life of Adrien Arcand, by Jean-François Nadeau. Translated by Bob Chodos, Eric Hamovitch and Susan Joanis

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Terry Cook

    Terry Cook is a professor in the archival studies graduate program at the University of Manitoba and an international archival consultant and speaker, as well as a historian. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

    • Blissful History

      A review of Writing History: A Professor’s Life, by Michael Bliss

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Tim Cook

    Tim Cook is the author of several books of Canadian military history, including The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie (Allan Lane, 2010).

    • Invading the Motherland

      A review of Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain and Two World Wars, by Jonathan Vance

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Jim Coutts

    Jim Coutts is chair of the Lester B. Pearson College Foundation and a past chair of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. He was private secretary to Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and principal secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

    • Three Provinces, Three Cultures

      A review of Code Politics: Campaigns and Cultures on the Canadian Prairies, by Jared J. Wesley

      Published in the July/August 2011 Issue.

  • Daniel Cowper

    Daniel Cowper is from Bowen Island, British Columbia, but is currently enduring a prolonged period of exile in Toronto.

  • Andrew Coyne

    Andrew Coyne is national editor of Maclean's magazine.

  • David Crane

    David Crane is a journalist with a strong interest in political economy and globalization.

    • Canada's Global Choices

      Do we embrace the new world order or stick with Washington?

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

    • Balancing Act

      The state, the markets, the future.

      Published in the September 2010 Issue.

  • Susan Crean

    Susan Crean is a Toronto writer whose book The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr (HarperCollins, 2001) was nominated for a Governor General’s Award for Literature in 2001.

    • Rediscovering Emily Carr

      An excerpt from The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr

      Published in the September 2002 Issue.

    • National Archives Blues

      Is a precious Canadian asset being digitized to death?

  • Richard Cumyn

    Richard Cumyn is the author of seven books, the most recent, Constance, Across, being a novella (Quattro Books, 2011).

    • Myth and Misadventure

      A review of Blackstrap Hawco, by Kenneth J. Harvey

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

    • Servant of the Servants of Distraction

      A review of Jack Hodgins' The Master of Happy Endings

      Published in the July/August 2010 Issue.

    • Dilemmas of the Diaspora

      A review of The Meagre Tarmac: Stories, by Clark Blaise

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

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  • Heather Davidson

    Heather Davidson graduated with a bachelor of arts in creative writing from Concordia University in 2011, where she won the 2011 Irving Layton Award for Fiction. Her poetry and fiction have been published in The Antigonish Review, Descant, carte blanche, The Puritan and The New Quarterly.

  • Lauren B. Davis

    Lauren B. Davis, whose most recent novel, The Radiant City (HarperCollins, 2005), is set in contemporary Paris, lived in France for ten years.

    • Dreyfus Domesticated

      A review of Kate Taylor's A Man in Uniform

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue.

  • Natalie Zemon Davis

    Natalie Zemon Davis, winner in 2010 of the Holberg International Memorial prize, is a historian and author of such books as Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds (Hill and Wang, 2006). She is associated with the History Department at the University of Toronto.

    • Imaginary Getaways

      Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

  • Brendan de Caires

    Brendan de Caires was born and grew up in Guyana. He was educated in England and has lived in Port of Spain, Bridgetown, Mexico City and New York. He now lives in Toronto.

  • Emily v. de Jeude

    Emily van Lidth de Jeude is a multimedia visual and literary artist. Emily is greatly influenced by expressionism and the natural sciences, as well as by mythology. She finds inspiration and joy in growing medicinal plants as well as in the rural lifestyle she and her family lead. She is a mother, a healer, an unschooler of two young children and an avid singer of traditional ballads.

  • Sadiqa de Meijer

    Sadiqa de Meijer’s poetry has appeared in various literary journals as well as in The Best Canadian Poetry 2008. Her work was shortlisted in the CBC Literary Awards in 2009 and previously won This Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt. Poems are forthcoming in the anthologies A Crystal Through Which Love Passes: Glosas for P.K. Page and The Book of Villanelles.

  • Tony Dean

    Tony Dean is a professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. He is the former head of the Ontario Public Service and continues to advise governments in Canada and abroad on public policy and public service reform.

  • Michael Decter

    Michael B. Decter has served as founding chair of the Health Council of Canada, chair of the Canadian Institute for Health Information and deputy minister of health for Ontario. He is the author of three books on Canadian health care, most recently Navigating Canada’s Health Care, co‐authored with Francesca Grosso and published by Penguin in 2006.

    • Eliminating the Caboose

      A review of Who Killed the Queen? The Story of a Community Hospital and How to Fix Public Health Care, by Holly Dressel, and Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services, by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong and Krista Scott-Dixon

      Published in the November 2008 Issue.

  • Rachael Dempsey

    Rachael Dempsey grew up in Kapuskasing, Ontario. She studied English at McGill University and international relations at the University of Toronto. She has worked and studied in Colombia, Japan, Egypt, Israel and Spain. Her work has been published in Montage: A Literary Journal.

  • Barry Dempster

    Barry Dempster is the author of nine collections of poetry, the most recent of which, The Burning Alphabet, won the Canadian Authors Association’s Chalmers Award for Poetry. He has new work forthcoming in Event, The New Quarterly, Queen’s Quarterly and Prairie Fire.

  • Claude Denis

    Claude Denis is a professor at the School of Political Studies and the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of We Are Not You: First Nations and Canadian Modernity (Broadview Press, 1997), and of many articles on the relationship between indigenous peoples and Canada.

    • The Summer of 1990

      A review of Oka: A Political Crisis and Its Legacy, by Harry Swain

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • Nathalie Des Rosiers

    Nathalie Des Rosiers is general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

    • The Calibration of Rights

      A review of The Freedom of Security: Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism, by Colleen Bell

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

  • Peter Desbarats

    Peter Desbarats spent 30 years as a print and TV journalist before being appointed dean of journalism at the University of Western Ontario. Now retired, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada last year. He can be reached by email at pdesbarats AT sympatico.ca.

    • Moguls of Winnipeg

      A review of Izzy: The Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada’s Media Mogul, by Peter C. Newman, and Asper Nation: Canada’s Most Dangerous Media Company, by Marc Edge

  • Joel Deshaye

    Joel Deshaye teaches courses in literature at McGill University, where he received a PhD in Canadian literature with a focus on poetry since 1945.

    • Casting a Light on Whiteness

      A review of Mark Anthony Jarman’s My White Planet

      Published in the October 2008 Issue.

    • The Young, the Old, the Now and the Gone

      A review of This Cake Is for the Party, by Sarah Selecky, and The Young in Their Country: And Other Stories, by Richard Cumyn

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • Lewis DeSoto

    Lewis DeSoto is the author of the novel A Blade of Grass (HarperCollins, 2003) and of a brief biography of Emily Carr.

    • Canada's Boer War

      A review of The Great Karoo, by Fred Stenson

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

    • Into the Phantom Zone

      A review of The Amazing Absorbing Boy, by Rabindranath Maharaj

      Published in the October 2010 Issue.

  • Kenneth Dewar

    Kenneth Dewar is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax.

  • Florin Diacu

    Florin Diacu, a mathematics professor at the University of Victoria, is the author of the award-winning Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe, published by Princeton University Press in 2009.

    • The Big One

      A review of Cascadia’s Fault: The Deadly Earthquake That Will Devastate North America, by Jerry Thompson

      Published in the July/August 2011 Issue.

  • Peter Dinsdale

    Peter Dinsdale is an Anishinabe and member of the Curve Lake First Nation in Ontario. He is currently the executive director of the National Association of Friendship Centres.

    • After the Apology

      A review of Where the Pavement Ends: Canada’s Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation, by Marie Wadden

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

  • Christopher Doda

    Christopher Doda is a poet, editor and critic living in Toronto. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Among Ruins (2001) and Aesthetics Lesson (2007), both published by Mansfield Press. He is an editor with Exile Editions and Exile: The Literary Quarterly, as well as being the book review editor for Studio, an online poetry journal.

    • A Sad Effect of Tenure

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

  • Don Domanski

    Don Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island and now lives in Halifax. He has published eight books of poetry, including All Our Wonder Unavenged (Brick Books, 2007), which won the Governor General’s Award for poetry and in 2008 won the Atlantic Poetry Prize. His work has been translated into Czech, Portuguese, French, Arabic and Spanish. In 1999 he won the Canadian Literary Award for Poetry.

  • Christopher Dornan

    Christopher Dornan is the director of the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs at Carleton University.

    • Our Violent National Game

      The great hockey debate continues.

    • Quebec's Eternal Hero

      A review of Maurice Richard, by Charles Foran

      Published in the September 2011 Issue.

    • Funny, Sad and True

      A review of The Antagonist, by Lynn Coady

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Shiraz Dossa

    Shiraz Dossa teaches political theory and comparative politics (Iran, Lebanon, Israel, India) at St. Francis Xavier University. In his book The Public Realm and the Public Self: The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1989) and in his articles, his focus has been the Holocaust and its legacy, Auschwitz and Christian conscience, Zionism and Palestinians, and Islam and the West.

    • The Explanation We Never Heard

      Six months after attending a controversial Tehran conference, a Canadian professor charges the media and his own university with ignorance and intolerance.

  • Bruce Dowbiggin

    Bruce Dowbiggin is an award-winning sports journalist based in Calgary and the author of five books, the latest being The Meaning of Puck: How Hockey Explains Modern Canada (Red Deer Press, 2008).

    • Svengali on Ice

      A review of The Lost Dream: The Story of Mike Danton, David Frost and a Broken Canadian Family, by Steve Simmons

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Philippa Dowding

    Philippa Dowding is a copywriter, poet and author living in Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in MotherVerse Magazine, Adirondack Review, Blue Skies Poetry and other journals. She has published two children’s books, The Gargoyle in My Yard (2009) and The Gargoyle Overhead (2010), with Napoleon Publishing.

  • Susan Downe

    Susan Downe is based in London, Ontario, and has published two collections of poetry, Between This .. And This (Spanish Onion Press, 1998) and Little Horse (Brick Books, 2004).

  • John Doyle

    John Doyle is the television critic for The Globe and Mail and has covered two World Cup tournaments and one European championship for the paper. His book Beautiful Game: Travels in Search of Soccer’s Small Wars and Big Peace will be published by Doubleday Canada in 2010.

    • "Joga Bonito"

      A review of Alan Twigg’s Full-Time: A Soccer Story

    • Science Fights Back

      A review of Media Mediocrity-Waging War Against Science: How the Television Makes Us Stoopid! by Richard Zurawski

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

  • Simon Doyle

    Simon Doyle is the editor of The Wire Report in Ottawa, covering Canada’s telecom, broadcasting and media sectors. He can be reached at sdoyle@thewirereport.ca.

    • High Noon at the CRTC

      New in town, players like Netflix pose a fundamental challenge to Canadian content regulations.

  • Bronwyn Drainie

    Bronwyn Drainie is Editor of the Literary Review of Canada.

    • Imaginary Getaways

      Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

  • Madelaine Drohan

    Madelaine Drohan is the author of Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business (Random House, 2003). She is the Ottawa correspondent for The Economist and a member of the board of directors at the North-South Institute and Partnership Africa Canada.

    • Letting Us Off the Hook

      A review of The Poverty of Corrupt Nations, by Roy Cullen

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

    • Canada As Colonial Power

      A review of Todd Gordon’s Imperialist Canada

  • Kelly N. Drukker

    Kelly Norah Drukker’s set of long poems, Still Lives, won second place in the 2006 CBC Literary Awards. Her work has been published in The Malahat Review, enRoute Magazine, Room Magazine, Poetry New Zealand and carte blanche.

  • Frank Duerden

    Frank Duerden is a professor in the School of Applied Geography at Ryerson University. He has worked extensively on land and resource issues with First Nations.

    • The Battle for Resources

      A review of The Marshal Decision and Native Rights, by Ken Coates, and Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in the Maritimes: The Marshal Decision and Beyond, by Thomas Isaac

      Published in the September 2002 Issue.

  • Jacalyn Duffin

    Jacalyn Duffin holds the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at Queen’s University. Her most recent book is Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints and Healing in the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2009).

    • The Past As It Ought to Be

      A review of The Heart Specialist, by Claire Holden Rothman

      Published in the November 2009 Issue.

  • Dennis Duffy

    Dennis Duffy is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who has lectured and published in the field of Canadian literature.

    • Lincoln’s Prophet

      A review of George Fetherling's Walt Whitman’s Secret: A Novel

    • Proving Its Worth

      A review of The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, edited by Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

  • Christopher Dummitt

    Christopher Dummitt is a historian of 20th-­century Canada. He is a professor at Trent University, and this past summer was a visiting professor of Canadian studies at the JFK Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin.

    • Yorkville State of Mind

      A review of Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, by Stuart Henderson

      Published in the September 2011 Issue.

  • Mark D. Dunn

    Mark D. Dunn is a musician, writer and teacher living in Sault Ste. Marie. His reviews, articles and poems have been in The Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire, Rain Taxi, Books in Canada, The Dalhousie Review, Queen's Quarterly, High Times, Education Today and many other publications. Currently, he is teaching writing and communications at Sault College. Samples of his music can be heard at www.mddunn.com.

  • David Dunne

    David Dunne is a professor of marketing at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He loves his brands and TiVos the ads, not the shows.

    • The Honest Adman

      A review of The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture, by Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant

      Published in the November 2009 Issue.

  • Patrice Dutil

    Patrice Dutil is the founder of the LRC. His new book (with John Langford, Cosmo Howard and Jeffrey Roy) is The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise (University of Ottawa Press, 2010).

    • Paquet's Labyrinth

      A review of Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures: A Plea for Experimentalism, by Gilles Paquet, and Gilles Paquet: Homo hereticus, edited by Caroline Andrew, Ruth Hubbard

      Published in the September 2009 Issue.

    • The Private Option

      A review of Public Service, Private Profits: The Political Economy of Public-Private Partnerships in Canada, by John Loxley, with Salim Loxley

      Published in the September 2010 Issue.

  • Don Dutton

    Don Dutton is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

    • An Ongoing Battle

      A review of Violence Against Women: Myths, Facts, Controversies, by Walter S. DeKeseredy

      Published in the July/August 2011 Issue.

  • Jeffrey Dvorkin

    Jeffrey Dvorkin has headed two news organizations: CBC Radio and NPR News. He is the executive director of the Organization of News Ombudsmen and the Rogers Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at Ryerson University. He blogs at nowthedetails.blogspot.com.

    • A Dying Breed

      A review of Scott Taylor's Unembedded: Two Decades of Maverick War Reporting and Terry Gould's Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Places

  • David Dyzenhaus

    David Dyzenhaus is a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto. His books include Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order (Hart Publishing, 1998).

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  • Colin Eatock

    Colin Eatock is a Toronto-based composer and writer who frequently contributes to The Globe and Mail. His book, Mendelssohn and Victorian England, was published by Ashgate Publishing in 2009.

    • Musical Brilliance

      A review of Lois Marshall: A Biography, by James Neufeld

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • David Eaves

    David Eaves is a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen’s University.

    • Progressivism's End

      In Obama, both Americans and Canadians can see the promise of something new.

  • James Eayrs

    James Eayrs, former professor at the University of Toronto and professor emeritus at Dalhousie University, is currently writing A Man’s Reach: C.S. Eby in Canada and Meiji Japan.

  • Esi Edugyan

    Esi Edugyan is the author of The Second Life of Samuel Tyne (Vintage, 2005) and Diese Fremden (Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2007). Her second novel, Half Blood Blues, will be published this year.

    • Tale of a Tortoise

      A review of Come, Thou Tortoise, Jessica Grant

      Published in the September 2009 Issue.

    • The Anguish of Aftermath

      A review of The Fallen, by Stephen Finucan

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

    • A Life Worth Living

      A review of How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • Susan Eng

    Susan Eng was chair of the Toronto Police Services Board from 1991 to 1995.

  • John English

    John English is General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography at the University of Toronto. He has written biographies of Pierre Trudeau, Lester Pearson and Robert Borden.

    • An Unsentimental Portrait

      A review of Richard Gwyn’s Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times. Volume Two: 1867–1891

  • Robert Evans

    Robert Evans is the author of Fueling Our Future: An Introduction to Sustainable Energy, published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 and short-listed for the 2008 Donner Prize. He is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of British Columbia.

  • Guy Ewing

    Guy Ewing’s recent poems have appeared in Literacies, The Antigonish Review, Jones Av., and Our Times, and in two anthologies: Prose Karen: For Pleasure, against Kapital, towards Grace (Imago Press, 2007) and Crossing Lines (Seraphim Editions, 2008).

    • Hearing, and Answering with Music

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

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  • Louise Fabiani

    Louise Fabiani is a Montreal critic and freelance science writer whose poems, essays and reviews have appeared in The New Quarterly, The Globe and Mail, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Prism International, Event and Agenda, among others. Her first book of poetry, The Green Alembic, was published by Signal Editions in 1999.

    • Loving the Pyromaniac

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2010 Issue.

  • Tarek Fatah

    Tarek Fatah is founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress and has written for The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the National Post. Born in Pakistan, he is author of Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State, in which he challenges the premise of Islamists that an Islamic state is a prerequisite to a state of Islam. The book will be available from John Wiley and Sons across Canada in April 2008.

    • Dystopic Utopia?

      A review of Michael Adams' Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism

  • Terry Fenge

    Terry Fenge is an Ottawa-based consultant on northern, environmental and aboriginal issues.

    • The Race for the Arctic

      A review of Who Owns the Arctic? Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North, by Michael Byers

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

  • Mark J. Fenske

    Mark Fenske, a neuroscientist and former faculty member at Harvard Medical School, is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Guelph. He is the co-author of the best-selling The Winner’s Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success (Da Capo, 2010).

    • Brainchild Bio

      A review of The Evolution of Inanimate Objects: The Life and Collected Works of Thomas Darwin (1857–1879), by Harry Karlinsky

      Published in the July/August 2011 Issue.

  • Jesse Patrick Ferguson

    Jesse Patrick Ferguson is a poet who currently resides in Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where he teaches English and plays the guitar, mandolin, bodhran and fiddle with varying success. Freehand Books published his first full-length book, Harmonics, in 2009.

    • Bee on Thistle

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

    • Three Points on a Crest of Time

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

    • Monday Morning

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Martha Hall Findlay

    Martha Hall Findlay is the former Liberal member of Parliament for Willowdale and was a candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party in 2006.

    • All Over the Map

      A review of Grassroots Liberals: Organizing for Local and National Politics, by Royce Koop

  • Joe Fiorito

    Joe Fiorito is a city columnist with the Toronto Star.

    • A Stoppage of the Light

      A review of In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger’s Memoir, by Charles Wilkins

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

  • Tom Flanagan

    Tom Flanagan is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary and a former Conservative campaign manager. He recently published Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007).

  • Brian Flemming

    Brian Flemming is an international lawyer, policy advisor and writer in Halifax. He was assistant principal secretary and policy advisor to Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau from 1976 to 1979. He was twice a candidate for Parliament.

    • Control-Freak Kingdom

      A review of Donald J. Savoie's Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom

    • Flying Naked Next

      Can we replace fear-driven theatrics with resilience in our quest for air travel security?

  • Judy Fong Bates

    Judy Fong Bates’s most recent book is The Year of Finding Memory (Random House, 2010), a memoir of returning to China and uncovering her parents’ past. Her novel Midnight at the Dragon Café (McClelland and Stewart, 2005) is the 2011 One Book for Keep Toronto Reading.

  • Charles Foran

    Among Charles Foran’s previous eight books are four Canadian novels. His biography of Mordecai Richler, Mordecai: The Life and Times, was published in October by Knopf.

    • Prismatic Fiction

      A review of Waiting for Columbus, by Thomas Trofimuk

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

    • Miscellany with a Mission

      A review of Hooked on Canadian Books: The Good, the Better and the Best Canadian Novels since 1984, by T.F. Rigelhof.

  • Robert Fothergill

    Robert Forthergill is professor emeritus in the Department of Theatre at York University in Toronto, and an award-winning playwright

    • Bard Versus Bard

      A review of How Shakespeare Changed Everything, by Stephen Marche

      Published in the September 2011 Issue.

  • Robert R. Fowler

    Robert R. Fowler was foreign policy advisor to prime ministers Pierre Trudeau, John Turner and Brian Mulroney, served as deputy minister of National Defence, was Canada’s longest-serving ambassador to the United Nations and was ambassador to Italy and United Nations food agencies, the prime minister’s personal representative for the Kananaskis G8 Summit and the personal representative for Africa of prime ministers Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper. He retired in 2006 after 38 years in public service and is now a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

    • Alice in Afghanistan

      A review of Janice Gross Stein's and Eugene Lang's The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar

  • Daniel Francis

    Daniel Francis, a contributing editor to Geist magazine, is an historical writer living in North Vancouver.

  • Mélanie Frappier

    Mélanie Frappier is a professor in the History of Science and Technology Programme at the University of King’s College, Halifax.

    • Tabloid Science

      A review of The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science, by Sheilla Jones

      Published in the November 2008 Issue.

    • Extreme Physics

      A review of Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics, by John W. Moffat

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • John Fraser

    John Fraser is the master of Massey College at the University of Toronto and author of The Chinese: Portrait of a People (Summit Books, 1980) and Stolen China (McClelland and Stewart, 1996). From 1977 to 1980, he was the Peking correspondent for The Globe and Mail.

    • Why Did He Do It?

      A review of Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship, by Denise Chong

      Published in the December 2009 Issue.

  • Roderick Fraser

    Roderick Fraser, OC, was president of the University of Alberta from 1995 to 2005, after 30 years at Queen’s University. As president emeritus, he now serves on several boards of directors and is a recipient of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Neck Ribbon with Gold Rays.

  • Mark J. Freiman

    Mark J. Freiman practises law at Lerners LLP in Toronto. He was lead commission counsel for the Air India inquiry. From 2000 to 2004 he was deputy attorney general for Ontario.

    • Trial by Anecdote

      A review of Ezra Levant's Shakedown:How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights

    • “I Didn’t Do It”

      A review of Justice Miscarried: Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada, by Hélèna Katz

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • Mark Fried

    Mark Fried is head of public policy at Oxfam Canada and a literary translator with ten books in print. He is the editor of the forthcoming Oxfam book From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World by Duncan Green.

  • Bernie M. Frolic

    Bernie Michael Frolic is professor emeritus at York University and a senior researcher at the Munk Centre for International Studies in the University of Toronto.

    • An Informed Citizenry?

      An online review of Communication in China: Political Economy, Power and Conflict, by Yuezhi Zhao

  • Mark Frutkin

    Mark Frutkin’s novel, Fabrizio’s Return (Knopf, 2006), won the 2006 Trillium Award and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Award (Canada/Caribbean Region). His most recent book is Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister’s Life in the Canadian Bush. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but his mother was from Toronto.

    • Through a Windshield Darkly

      A review of Breakfast at the Exit Café, by Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds.

      Published in the December 2010 Issue.

  • Anthony Furey

    Anthony Furey has reviewed for many publications including The Times Literary Supplement, Publisher’s Weekly and National Post. He was the founding artistic producer of Paprika Festival, held annually at Tarragon Theatre.

    • Haunted Legacy

      A review of Wajdi Mouawad’s Tideline, translated by Shelley Tepperman, and Scorched, translated by Linda Gaboriau

      Published in the December 2009 Issue.

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  • Brian Gable

    Brian Gable has worked as an editorial cartoonist for The Globe and Mail since 1987 and lives in Toronto. He will appear in conversation with David Levine at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto on September 25, 2008.

    • A Steady Eye

      David Levine has captured the artistic and political greats of his era with nothing but a pencil.

  • George Galt

    George Galt is the author of the novel Scribes and Scoundrels (ECW Press, 1997). Some reviewers insisted that one of its characters closely resembled Conrad Black.

  • Connie Gault

    Connie Gault writes fiction and plays. Her most recent book is the novel Euphoria (Coteau Books, 2009).

    • Inventive Evasion

      A review of The Breakwater House, by Pascale Quiviger, translated by Lazer Lederhendler

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

  • John Geiger

    John Geiger is the author of The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible (Weinstein Books, 2009) and Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (with Owen Beattie; Western Producer Prairie Books, 1987). He is president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and editorial board editor for The Globe and Mail.

    • When Britannia Ruled the Slopes

      A review of Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Asher Ghaffar

    Asher Ghaffar published his first collection, Wasps in a Golden Dream Hum a Strange Music (ECW Press, 2008), in which this poem appears.

  • Andrew Gibson

    Andrew Gibson has just completed a doctoral dissertation on the Canadian social criticism of philosopher Charles Taylor. He is a councillor for the Quebec section of the New Democratic Party of Canada.

  • Susan Gillis

    Susan Gillis divides her time between Montreal and rural Ontario. Her third book, The Rapids, is forthcoming from Brick in 2012.

    • Between the Acts

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Philip Girard

    Philip Girard’s biography Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2005) was reviewed in the LRC in November 2005.

    • Cape Breton Ghost

      A review of A.J.B. Johnston’s Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory and the Despair of Louisbourg’s Last Decade

      Published in the October 2008 Issue.

    • Quiet Resilience

      A review of Searching for Justice: An Autobiography, by Fred Kaufman

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

    • Messy, Experimental and Stimulating

      A review of Allan C. Hutchinson's Is Eating People Wrong? Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World.

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

  • Joan Givner

    Joan Givner has written two major biographies, an autobiography, two novels and several collections of short stories. She is the author of the Ellen Fremedon series of children’s books. Her young adult novel, A Girl Called Tennyson, is forthcoming from Thistledown Press.

    • A Woman Who Prevails

      A review of Euphoria, by Connie Gault

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2010 Issue.

  • Nora Gold

    Nora Gold is a former social worker and social work professor who worked for many years with the families of children with developmental disabilities and has conducted research in this field. She is currently at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), and is the founding editor of the new literary journal, Jewish Fiction .net.

  • Kim Goldberg

    Kim Goldberg’s latest book is Red Zone (Pig Squash Press, 2009), a photo-illustrated poem diary of the homeless population in Nanaimo, British Columbia, where she lives. It has been taught as a literature course text at Vancouver Island University. Her first collection, Ride Backwards on Dragon (Leaf Press, 2007), was a Lampert Award finalist. Her poetry has appeared in Geist, West Coast Line, The Capilano Review, Matrix, Rampike, Prairie Fire and numerous other magazines and anthologies in Canada and abroad. More information is available at www.pigsquashpress.com.

  • Noreen Golfman

    Noreen Golfman is a professor of English and the dean of graduate studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

    • An Outsider's Eye

      Newfoundland culture as defined from without and within.

    • Bleak Island

      A review of The Blythes Are Quoted, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre

      Published in the November 2009 Issue.

    • Fairy Tales for Men

      A review of Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin, edited by David Church, and Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin, by William Beard

  • Daniel Goodwin

    Daniel Goodwin works in corporate communications in Saint John, New Brunswick. His journalism and book reviews have appeared in several newspapers. His poetry has appeared most recently in the Dalhousie Review and the Antigonish Review and is forthcoming in CV2.

  • Sue Goyette

    Sue Goyette lives in Halifax and teaches Creative Writing at Dalhousie University. She has published two books of poetry and a novel.

    • Introducing the Tree: A Lather of Green

      Published in the October 2008 Issue.

  • Wayne Grady

    Wayne Grady's most recent books are Breakfast at the Exit Cafe: Travels Through America (Greystone, 2010), co-authored with Merilyn Simonds, and Technology (Groundwork, 2010). He is an adjunct professor of creative non-fiction at the University of British Columbia.

    • Age Brings Knowledge

      A review of The Social Behavior of Older Animals, by Anne Innis Dagg

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

    • Desolate Lives

      A review of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery, by Andrew Westoll

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

  • Catherine Graham

    Catherine Graham is the author of three poetry collections: The Watch (Abbey Press, 1998), Pupa (Insomniac Press, 2003) and The Red Element (Insomniac Press, 2008). Vice-president of Project Bookmark Canada and marketing coordinator for the Rowers Pub Reading Series, she teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto. As part of Scotiabank’s Nuit Blanche in 2009, her work will feature in the poetry-based animation project Words Travel Fast. More information is available from .

  • Hugh Graham

    Hugh Graham’s short fiction has appeared in Exile, the Antigonish Review, Fiddlehead and New Quarterly. A screenwriter and journalist, he grew up in Toronto, lived in France for two years and did some journalism in Central America.

  • Ron Graham

    Ron Graham’s latest book, The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau, the Gang of Eight and the Fight for Canada, will be published by Allen Lane Canada in April 2011.

    • Intellectual Sleight of Hand

      A review of True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada, by Michael Ignatieff

    • A Party Divided

      A review of Divided Loyalties: The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984–2008, by Brooke Jeffrey

  • J.L. Granatstein

    J.L. Granatstein is a historian, author of Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (University of Toronto Press, 2002) and senior research fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

    • A Persistent Myth

      A review of Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956–67, by Michael Carroll, and Canada, the Congo Crisis and UN Peacekeeping, 1960–64, by Kevin A. Spooner

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

  • Jessica Grant

    Jessica Grant’s debut novel Come, Thou Tortoise (Knopf, 2009) won the Winterset Award and Books in Canada First Novel Award. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

    • Imaginary Getaways

      Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

  • Charlotte Gray

    Charlotte Gray is the author of seven best-selling books of history and biography, and the winner of the Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history. She is an adjunct research professor in history at Carleton University.

  • John Gray

    John Gray has written for a number of newspapers, most recently The Globe and Mail, for which he was Ottawa bureau chief, national editor, foreign editor, foreign correspondent and national correspondent. He is the author of Paul Martin: The Power of Ambition (Key Porter, 2003).

    • Angry Mr. Nice Guy

      A review of Hell or High Water: My Life In and Out of Politics, by Paul Martin

      Published in the November 2008 Issue.

  • Lyndsay Green

    Lyndsay Green is the author of You Could Live a Long Time: Are You Ready? (Thomas Allen, 2010).

    • Life in the Afternoon

      A review of Stayin’ Alive: How Canadian Baby Boomers Will Work, Play and Find Meaning in the Second Half of Their Adult Lives, by Michael Adams

    • Here They Come

      A review of Gerald Hodge's The Geography of Aging: Preparing Communities for the Surge in Seniors

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

  • Roger Greenwald

    Roger Greenwald, an American poet and translator, teaches at Innis College at the University of Toronto.

  • Allan R. Gregg

    Allan R. Gregg is chair of Harris-Decima. From 1975 to 1993 he worked for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada as their pollster. Currently he provides political commentary on CBC’s The National and hosts his own talk show on TVO.

  • Janet Guildford

    Janet Guildford teaches history at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. Her research focuses on the history of women in Atlantic Canada.

    • Women on the High Seas

      A review of Silk Sails: Women of Newfoundland and Their Ships, by Calvin Evans

      Published in the November 2008 Issue.

  • Janet Guildsford

    Janet Guildford teaches history at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. Her research focuses on the history of women in Atlantic Canada.

  • Jason Guriel

    Jason Guriel is the recipient of the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry magazine. His next book of poems will be published by Véhicule Press in 2009.

  • Ray Guy

    Ray Guy is an award-winning journalist and dramatist based in St. John’s.

    • Enforcing Terrible Secrets

      A review of The Bishop's Man, by Linden MacIntyre

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2010 Issue.

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  • Ian Hacking

    Ian Hacking is a Canadian philosopher with wide interests. He discusses autobiographies written by people with autism in an essay soon to appear in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

    • Private Thoughts in Public Language

      A review of JPod by Douglas Coupland, The Language of Others by Clare Morrall, Daniel Isn’t Talking by Marti Leimbach, Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern, and So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in “Pride and Prejudice” by Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer

  • Ben Hackman

    Ben Hackman is the founding editor of The Molotov Rag, Toronto’s anarchist quarterly. His work has appeared in Jones Avenue and is forthcoming in Canadian Literature.

    • Lament for a Sweater

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Peter Hadekel

    Peter Hadekel is a business columnist for The Gazette in Montreal.

    • Taking On the World

      A review of BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research In Motion, by Rod McQueen

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

  • Roger Hall

    Roger Hall is the general editor of the Champlain Society, a member of the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario and a senior fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto.

    • A Storyteller's Story

      A review of Pierre Berton: A Biography, by A.B. McKillop

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

  • Fen Osler Hampson

    Fen Osler Hampson is the Chancellor’s Professor and director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.

    • Unsung Hero

      A review of Canada’s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes, by Adam Chapnick

      Published in the September 2009 Issue.

  • John Hancock

    John Hancock works at the World Trade Organization, where he has served as policy advisor to the director general, head of investment issues and representative to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The opinions expressed are his own, not those of the WTO or its members.

    • The Capitalist Revolution

      Together with rapid growth, dazzling technologies and widening circles of development, global capitalism is delivering a turbulent, unequal, out-of-control world. Just as we demanded.

  • Jack Hannan

    Jack Hannan lives in Montreal. “A Poem in the Kitchen” is included in Some Frames, which will be published by Cormorant Books in April 2011—Hannan’s first book in 25 years.

    • A Poem in the Kitchen

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue.

  • Dana Hansen

    Dana Hansen is a writer, blogger and reviewer, and teaches literature and composition at the Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto.

  • James Harbeck

    James Harbeck is an editor and linguist and the author of the blog Sesquiotica . Watch that space for details on his book of salacious verse on English usage, Songs of Love and Grammar, and the eventual Adventures in Word Tasting.

    • Rich and Strange

      A review of Strange Bedfellows: The Private Lives of Words, by Howard Richler

      Published in the September 2010 Issue.

  • Gillian Harding-Russell

    Gillian Harding-Russell has published three poetry collections, most recently I Forgot to Tell You (Thistledown, 2007). She has a chapbook, Poems for the Summer Solstice (Leaf Press), and Stories of Snow (Alfred Gustav) appearing later this year. Her work has been pub- lished in The Windsor Review and is forthcoming in Carousel and The Antigonish Review. A poem was shortlisted for the Winston Collins/Descant Prize in 2011. She lives in Regina.

  • Graham Harley

    Graham Harley taught English literature in Scottish, American and Canadian universities before founding the Phoenix Theatre in Toronto. He is an actor and theatre director.

  • Bill Harnum

    Bill Harnum is director of publications for the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto.

    • Thinking in Groups

      A review of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, by Michèle Lamont

      Published in the October 2009 Issue.

  • Lea Harper

    Lea Harper is the author of two collections of poetry published by Black Moss Press, All That Saves Us (1998) and Shadow Crossing (2000), and the chapbook, Unclaimed Baggage (littlefishcart Press, 2005).

  • Michael Hart

    Michael Hart is a professor and the Simon Reisman Chair in Trade Policy at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. His latest book, From Pride to Influence: Towards a New Canadian Foreign Policy, was published by the University of British Columbia Press in 2008.

    • A Large But Poor Economy

      A review of The Destiny of Canada: Macdonald, Laurier and the Election of 1891, by Christopher Pennington, and Canada 1911: The Decisive Election That Shaped the Country, by Patrice Dutil and David MacKenzie

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • Carla Hartsfield

    Carla Hartsfield is a classically trained pianist, composer, writer and visual artist. Her first book, The Invisible Moon (Signal Editions, 1988), was short-listed for the LCP Gerald Lampert prize. Your Last Day on Earth (Brick Books) was on the long list of the British Columbia ReLit Awards. Her first long sequenced poem, The River (Rubicon Press), was published in 2010.

    • Forbidden Fruit

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • Nader Hashemi

    Nader Hashemi is a professor of Middle East and Islamic politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

  • Elizabeth Hay

    Elizabeth Hay is the author of Late Nights on Air, winner of the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

  • Steven Hayward

    Steven Hayward teaches in the English Department of Colorado College. His most recent book is the best-selling novel and Globe 100 selection Don’t Be Afraid (Random House, 2011).

    • Battles Foreign and Familial

      A review of The Honey Locust, by Jeffrey Round

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

    • Dispatch from Colorado Springs

      A Canadian resident learns what happens when the town council calls the bluff of the lower-taxes movement.

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue.

    • Dubai Glitz to Hardware Retail

      A review of David Penhale's Passing Through

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Toby Heaps

    Toby Heaps is the president, editor and co-founder of Corporate Knights, an independent Canadian-based media company focused on prompting and reinforcing sustainable development in Canada and abroad. He is currently chairing E3 Canadian Roundtables, a series of discussions across Canada to isolate the catalytic policies required for Canada to become a clean energy superpower in the 21st century.

    • Green Tycoons

      A review of The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy for the Future, by Andrew Heintzman

  • Joseph Heath

    Joseph Heath is the director of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. His current research is funded by the Canadian Environmental Issues strategic grant program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

    • Did the Banks Go Crazy?

      Whatever economists might think, rationality and efficiency don't always go together.

    • It’s Not Easy Being Green

      A review of The Legacy: An Elder’s Vision for Our Sustainable Future, by David Suzuki, and Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change, by William Marsden

  • Jeet Heer

    Jeet Heer, a Regina-based cultural journalist, frequently writes about comics. He is co-editor, with Kent Worcester, of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (University of Mississippi Press, 2004). With Chris Ware and Chris Oliveros, he is editing a series of volumes reprinting Frank King’s Gasoline Alley, three volumes of which have been published by Drawn and Quarterly under the umbrella title Walt and Skeezix.

  • Andrew Heintzman

    Andrew Heintzman is president of Investeco Capital Corp., an investment firm focused on environmental companies. He is the co-editor of Food and Fuel: Solutions for the Future, published by Anansi in 2009.

    • Bitumen: Boon or Blight?

      A review of Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, by Andrew Nikiforuk, and Tar Sands Showdown: Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change, by Tony Clarke

      Published in the April 2009 Issue.

  • Eric Helleiner

    Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair of International Political Economy and a professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. He is co-editor of The Future of the Dollar (Cornell University Press, 2009) and Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change (Routledge, 2010).

    • Progressive Fortune Telling

      A review of Beyond the Bubble: Imagining a New Canadian Economy, by James Laxer

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

  • Lee Henderson

    Lee Henderson’s latest novel, The Man Game, was published in 2008.

  • T. Stephen Henderson

    T. Stephen Henderson is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at Acadia University, and the author of Angus L. Macdonald: A Provincial Liberal (University of Toronto Press, 2007).

    • A Heavily Qualified Greatness

      A review of King: William Lyon Mackenzie King, A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny, by Allan Levine

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Stephen Henighan

    Stephen Henighan is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Streets of Winter (Thistledown, 2004), Stephen Henighan is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Streets of Winter (Thistledown, 2004), A Grave in the Air (Thistledown, 2007) and A Report on the Afterlife of Culture (Biblioasis, 2008). He is a professor and the head of Hispanic studies at the University of Guelph and general editor of the Biblioasis International Translation Series.

    • Guerillas or Folklorists?

      A review of Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature, by Herb Wyile

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

  • Shira Herzog

    Shira Herzog is a regular contributor on Israeli affairs to The Globe and Mail. Her father, Yaacov Herzog, was Israel’s ambassador to Canada from 1960 to 1963. She returned to Canada in 1974.

    • Discovering a Homeland Abroad

      A review of The Defining Decade: Identity, Politics and the Canadian Jewish Community in the 1960s, by Harold Troper.

  • Steve Hewitt

    Steve Hewitt is senior lecturer in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of a number of books related to the history of security and intel¬ligence, including Snitch! A History of the Modern Intelligence Informer (Continuum, 2010) and Spying 101: The RCMP’s Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917–1997 (University of Toronto Press, 2002).

    • The Spectre of Bolshevism

      A review of Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918–1919, Canada’s First War on Terror, by Daniel Francis

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Michael W. Higgins

    Michael W. Higgins is president and vice-chancellor of St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Vatican Affairs specialist for The Globe and Mail and CTV, and the author of many books, including Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton (Stoddard, 1998) and Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint Making (House of Anansi, 2007).

    • Swiftian Wit and Zen Insight

      A review of Thomas Merton: Hermit at the Heart of Things, by J.S. Porter

      Published in the November 2008 Issue.

    • Humanist Conspiracy

      A review of A Sudden Terror: The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome, by Anthony F. D’Elia

      Published in the December 2009 Issue.

  • Anita Ho

    Anita Ho is a professor specializing in bioethics at the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia. She is also the director of ethics services at Providence Health Care in Vancouver.

    • Denial and Dignity

      A review of Tim Falconer’s That Good Night: Ethicists, Euthanasia and End-of-Life Care

      Published in the October 2009 Issue.

  • Thomas Hodd

    Thomas Hodd writes on education and book culture, and is co-founder of the Early Canadian Literature Society.

    • The Canadian Supernatural

      In fiction from Charles G.D. Roberts to Gabrielle Roy and Joseph Boyden, nature takes on spiritual power.

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

    • A Compelling Voice

      A review of Tony Tremblay's David Adams Richards of the Miramichi: A Biographical Introduction

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

  • Alexander Hollenberg

    Alexander Hollenberg teaches in the Department of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and works as a freelance writer. He holds a PhD in American literature and has been published in Toronto Life, Studies in American Indian Literatures, The Hemingway Review and Narrative.

    • Endearing Assassins

      A review of Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Jonathan Holslag

    Jonathan Holslag is the head of research at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies and the author of China and India: Prospects for Peace, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

    • The Myth of Chindia

      A review of Wendy Dobson's Gravity Shift: How Asia’s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the Twenty-First Century

  • Michiel Horn

    Michiel Horn, FRSC, is professor emeritus of history at York University. His books include The Dirty Thirties: Canadians in the Great Depression (Copp Clark, 1972), Academic Freedom in Canada: A History (University of Toronto Press, 1999) and, most recently, York University: The Way Must Be Tried (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008).

    • An Unpopular PM Revisited

      A review of Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation, by John Boyko

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

  • Margaret Horsfield

    Margaret Horsfield turned to writing after many years with the BBC as a radio reporter. She is the author of four books, including Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework (Fourth Estate, 1997). She lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia.

    • Out, Damned Spot!

      A review of The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, by Katherine Ashenburg

  • Les Horswill

    Les Horswill is currently working on a book that explores the state of Canadian nationalism and the promise of North America. Formerly, as an assistant deputy minister, he advised various Ontario governments on a range of issues including national unity, energy and trade.

    • Halfway There

      A review of Open and Shut: Why America Has Barack Obama and Canada Has Stephen Harper, by John Ibbitson

      Published in the September 2009 Issue.

  • Andrew Horvat

    Andrew Horvat is the director of Stanford University’s overseas studies program in Kyoto. From 1980 to 1985 he was the Tokyo-based Asia bureau chief of Southam News, in which capacity he covered the commissioning of the first CANDU reactor in Korea. Horvat has also worked in Asia for the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and Public Radio International’s Marketplace program.

    • No CANDU

      Would a Canadian reactor have staved off the Fukushima nuclear disaster?

  • Alison Howell

    Alison Howell is a research fellow at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Madness in International Relations: Psychology, Security and the Global Governance of Mental Health, recently published by Routledge.

    • Afghanistan’s Price

      By downplaying PTSD, our government makes soldiers and their families bear the costs of war.

  • Bill Howell

    Bill Howell has five poetry collections, including Porcupine Archery (Insomniac Press, 2009) and Ghost Test Flights (Rubicon Press, 2008). He has recent work in ARC, Antigonish Review, Echolocation, Fiddlehead, Grain, Nashwaak Review, New York Quarterly, nthposition, Toronto Quarterly and The White Collar Book (Black Moss Press, in press).

    • Character Based on an Old Letter with the Same Surname

      Published in the September 2009 Issue.

    • Exactly

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • Douglas Hunter

    Douglas Hunter is a past winner of the National Business Book Award and a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award.

    • A Tangled Tale

      A review of A Fleeting Empire: Early Stuart Britain and the Merchant Adventurers to Canada, by Andrew D. Nicholls.

      Published in the December 2010 Issue.

  • Crystal Hurdle

    Crystal Hurdle is the author of After Ted & Sylvia: Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2003). She teaches English and creative writing at Capilano University in Vancouver. In October 2007, she was guest poet at the International Sylvia Plath Symposium at the University of Oxford. She was fiction editor of The Capilano Review in the late 1980s and currently sits on its board of directors. The poem included in this issue is from her manuscript “Toward.”

  • Linda Hutcheon

    Linda Hutcheon teaches literature at the University of Toronto and is the author of twelve books on contemporary culture. Her most recent work involves the ethics, economics and politics of reviewing across all the arts: she recently gave the 2009 Alexander Lectures on the topic at University College at the University of Toronto.

  • Maureen Hynes

    Maureen Hynes is a past winner of the League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Prize for her first book of poetry, Harm's Way (Brick Books, 2001), and a recent winner of Britain's Petra Kenney Prize. Her third poetry book, Uncovered, is forthcoming from Pedlar Press.

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  • John Ibbitson

    John Ibbitson, Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail, is a veteran political columnist and award-winning author.

  • John Ivison

    John Ivison is a political columnist for the National Post and a native of Dumfries, Scotland, final home and resting place of the poet Robert Burns. He tweets as @Loreburn, a reference to the Dumfries crest.

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  • Mark Jaccard

    Mark Jaccard is a professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. He is convening lead author for sustainable energy policy with the Global Energy Assessment and co-author, with Jeffrey Simpson and Nic Rivers, of Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge (McClelland and Stewart, 2007).

    • The Climate Change Olympics

      Perhaps some healthy provincial competition can get Canada moving.

    • Full Steam Ahead?

      A review of The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy, by Chris Turner

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Michael Jackson

    Michael Jackson, QC, teaches in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia and is author of Prisoners of Isolation: Solitary Confinement in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1983) and Justice Behind the Walls: Human Rights in Canadian Prisons (Douglas and McIntyre, 2002).

    • Fear-Driven Policy

      Ottawa’s harsh new penal proposals won’t make us safer, just poorer—and less humane.

  • Mark Anthony Jarman

    Mark Anthony Jarman plays harmonica for a blues band in Fredericton where he teaches at the University of New Brunswick. His most recent book is My While Planet (Thomas Allen, 2008).

    • Crammed with Crime

      A review of The Glass Harmonica, by Russell Wangersky

      Published in the September 2010 Issue.

  • Sarah Jennings

    Sarah Jennings is a national arts journalist and the author of Art and Politics—The History of the National Arts Centre (Dundurn, 2009).

    • Art for Whose Sake?

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

      Published in the July/August 2010 Issue.

    • Artistic Autocrat

      A review of The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca, by Carol Bishop-Gwyn

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Dean Jobb

    Dean Jobb, a professor of journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax, is the author of Calculated Risk: Greed, Politics and the Westray Tragedy (Nimbus Publishing, 1994) and The Acadians: A People’s Story of Exile and Triumph (John Wiley and Sons, 2005).

    • Slow-Motion Disaster

      A review of The Dirt: Industrial Disease and Conflict at St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, by Rick Rennie

      Published in the October 2008 Issue.

  • Elena E. Johnson

    Elena E. Johnson was a finalist for the 2010 CBC Literary Awards and the 2011 Alfred G. Bailey Prize for poetry. Her poems have appeared in literary journals in Canada and the United Kingdom, and she is at work on her first collection. She lives in Vancouver.

  • Jim Johnstone

    Jim Johnstone is the author of The Velocity of Escape (Guernica Editions, 2008). He is a two-time winner of the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry and was shortlisted for the 2007 CBC Poetry Award.

  • Sheilla Jones

    Sheilla Jones is a former CBC news editor with an advanced degree in theoretical physics. She is the author of The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science (Oxford University Press, 2008), and is currently working on a book about the strange science of water. Her website is www.sheillajones.com.

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  • Ivan Kalmar

    Ivan Davidson Kalmar teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His latest book, Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power, will be published by Routledge in 2011.

    • Is Islam Anti-Semitic?

      A review of The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism, by Tarek Fatah

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • Jonathan Kay

    Jonathan Kay is managing editor for Comment at the National Post.

  • W. J. Keith

    W.J. Keith is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Toronto. His publications include Canadian Literature in English (1985, 2006) and Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood’s “The New Age/Le nouveau siècle” (2002).

  • Paul Kelley

    Paul Kelley lives in Kingston and teaches in the English Department at Queen’s University.

  • Suanne Kelman

    Suanne Kelman is Associate Chair of the School of Journalism at Ryerson University.

    • The Trial Coverage on Trial

      Between the fawners and the tricoteuses, journalism is found guilty.

    • Love-Making through Word-Making

      A review of Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, edited by Victoria Glendinning

      Published in the November 2008 Issue.

    • Rescue or Kidnapping?

      A review of Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas, by Karen Dubinsky

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

    • Shooting the Messenger

      An essay.

  • Joseph Kertes

    Joseph Kertes is the author of Gratitude (Penguin, 2008), winner of a Canadian National Jewish Book Award and the U.S. National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. He is dean of creative and performing arts at Humber College in Toronto.

    • Coming to Gold Mountain

      A review of The Year of Finding Memory, by Judy Fong Bates, The Geography of Arrival, by George Sipos, and Alice Street, by Richard Valeriote

      Published in the October 2010 Issue.

    • Middle Men

      A review of Midway, by David Homel, and The Joyful Child, by Norman Ravvin

      Published in the July/August 2011 Issue.

  • Sheema Khan

    Sheema Khan is the author of Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman (TSAR Books, 2009), and is an op-ed columnist for The Globe and Mail.

    • Integration Is a Two-Way Street

      A review of Diaspora by Design: Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond, by Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, Mark J. Goodman

      Published in the October 2009 Issue.

    • Bridging the Divide

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

  • Tasha Kheiriddin

    Tasha Kheiriddin is the co-host of CTV News Channel’s National Affairs and a columnist with the National Post. She has an interest in aboriginal economic development issues and is the author of “Contraband Tobacco: Inaction Is Not an Option,” published in Policy Options in December 2010.

    • Enough Talk

      A review of First Nations Gaming in Canada, edited by Yale D. Belanger

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

  • Tom Kierans

    Tom Kierans is chair of the council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a senior fellow at Massey College, and is involved with the boards of a number of not-for-profit institutes.

    • Gridlock at the Border

      A review of The Impacts of 9/11 on Canada-U.S. Trade, by Steven Globerman and Paul Storer

  • Stephen Kimber

    Stephen Kimber is a Halifax-based professor, journalist and the author of seven books, including Reparations (HarperCollins, 2006), a novel that deals, in part, with the Africville relocation and racism in Nova Scotia. He is also a co-author of The Spirit of Africville (Maritext 1992). His latest book is Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783–1792 (Random House 2008).

  • Mark Kingwell

    Mark Kingwell is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. His most recent book, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City, has just been published by Viking.

  • Warren Kinsella

    Warren Kinsella blogs at www.warrenkinsella.com and is the National Post’s media columnist.

  • John Kissick

    John Kissick is a painter and writer, and Director of the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph.

    • Wild Painters

      A review of Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art by Iris Nowell

  • Joyce Kline

    Joyce Kline is an artist and writer who teaches at the Victoria College of Art. This August her new musical Smash a Plate! was read as part of Intrepid Theatre’s YOU SHOW series.

    • Black Market Culture

      A review of Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art, by Joshua Knelman

  • Barbara Klunder

    Barbara Klunder has written and illustrated her own set of modern classics with Groundwood Books: Other Goose: Recycled Rhymes for Our Fragile Times (2007), and also a Toronto Island illustrated alphabet book. She is now working on a book of limericks. In 2009, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art Directors’ Club of Canada.

    • Go Ask Alice

      A review of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Oleg Lipchenko, and A Is for Alice, by George A. Walker

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

  • W. Andy Knight

    W. Andy Knight is chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta and director of the Children Affected by War project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

    • Children As “Weapon Systems”

      A review of They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers, by Roméo Dallaire, with Jessica Dee Humphreys

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • Paul Knox

    Paul Knox is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Ryerson University, where he was chair from 2005 to 2010. He spent more than 30 years in active journalism as a reporter, foreign correspondent, columnist, editor and broadcaster, most of it with The Globe and Mail.

    • Haiti's Fallible Hero

      A review of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment, by Peter Hallward

    • News for the World?

      A review of Global Journalism Ethics, by Stephen J.A. Ward.

  • Joy Kogawa

    Joy Kogawa is working on a novel or memoir entitled Gently to Nagasaki. She lives in Toronto.

  • Myrna Kostash

    Myrna Kostash writes full time from her home in Edmonton. Her most recent book is The Frog Lake Reader (NeWest Press, 2009). She is grateful for the support of the Edmonton Arts Council in the writing of this essay.

  • Larry Krotz

    Larry Krotz’s most recent book is The Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa (University of Manitoba Press, 2008).

    • Science and Romance

      A review of David Manicom's Anna's Shadow and Robert Carr's Continuums

      Published in the July/August 2009 Issue.

    • The Scoop on Peacekeeping

      A review of Pale Blue Hope: Death and Life in Asian Peacekeeping, by Ronald Poulton

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

    • “Pursued by Devils or Tories”

      A review of The Lunatic and the Lords, by Richard D. Schneider

      Published in the September 2010 Issue.

  • Lesley Krueger

    Lesley Krueger is a Toronto-based novelist and filmmaker. She has recently completed her fourth novel.

    • Imaginary Getaways

      Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

  • Anton Kuerti

    Anton Kuerti is one of Canada's leading pianists.

    • Glenn Gould's Manipulations

      A review of Glenn Gould's performance of Beethoven's Sonata in F# Major (Op.78),Sonata (Op.106) Hammerklavier, John P.L. Roberts and Ghyslaine Guertin's Glenn Gould: Selected Letters, David Young's Glenn, Glenn Gould's The Solitude Trilogy and Andrew Kazdin's Glenn Gould at Work: Creative Lying.

  • Diana Kuprel

    Diana Kuprel is the online editor of the LRC. Raised in a northern sawmill town in British Columbia and in Vancouver, she is now based in Toronto. She is the translator of Zofia Nalkowska's short story collection, Medallions and Ryszard Kapuscinski's selected poetry, I Wrote Stone.

    • Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun

      A review of Touch, by Alexi Zentner

      Published in the September 2011 Issue.

  • Rahat Kurd

    Rahat Kurd is writing a memoir about how pop culture feeds Muslim culture in North America. An excerpt called “Bakvaas (nonsense)” was shortlisted for a 2007 CBC Literary Award. Her work has been published by Granta, Geist and The Globe and Mail.

    • American Dreams?

      A review of The Sheikh’s Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World, by Richard Poplak

      Published in the September 2009 Issue.

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  • Martin Laflamme

    Martin Laflamme is a foreign service officer who has served in Japan and Afghanistan. He is currently preparing for an upcoming assignment in China. The views presented in the LRC are his own.

    • Thought in Action

      A review of Norman Bethune, by Adrienne Clarkson and “Norman Bethune: trail of Solidarity — La huella solidaria” at the McCord Museum of Canadian History

    • Like Father, Like Daughter

      A review of The Ghost Brush, by Katherine Govier.

      Published in the December 2010 Issue.

  • Blake Lambert

    Blake Lambert, a former foreign correspondent who covered East and West Africa, teaches globalization at Humber College.

    • Torrents of Vitriol

      A review of Joan Baxter’s Dust from Our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa.

      Published in the April 2009 Issue.

    • No One’s Best Friend

      A review of Blood on the Stone: Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade, by Ian Smillie

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • Andy Lamey

    Andy Lamey's Frontier Justice: Human Rights in the Age of Asylum is forthcoming from Doubleday Canada.

  • JonArno Lawson

    JonArno Lawson’s most recent book is Think Again (illustrated by Julie Morstad), which was published this spring by Kids Can Press.

    • The Last Round

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

  • Jack Layton

    Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party, died on August 22. This passage is excerpted from his foreword to Canadian Idealism and the Philosophy of Freedom: C.B. Macpherson, George Grant and Charles Taylor, by Robert Meynell (McGill‐Queen’s University Press, 2011). Reproduced with permission.

  • Mary Jo Leddy

    Mary Jo Leddy has lived and worked with refugees for 20 years. She is the author of several books and teaches theology at the University of Toronto. She is a senior fellow of Massey College.

    • Urban Solace

      A review of Michael Helm's Cities of Refuge

      Published in the July/August 2010 Issue.

  • Nanci Lee

    Nanci Lee is a poet, adult educator and microfinance consultant from Halifax who works with savings groups in Africa and Asia. Her poems have been published in Canadian literary journals including The Antigonish Review, Fiddlehead and Contemporary Verse 2. She won the Halifax CBC poetry face-off and the Wallace Stegner Award/Residency in 2009.

  • Philip Lee

    Philip Lee is the author of Bittersweet: Confessions of a Twice-Married Man, published in 2008 by Goose Lane Editions.

  • Rita Leistner

    Rita Leistner is a politically and socially engaged lens-based artist whose concerned photography uses conceptual approaches to create photographs with a special relationship to current events and the human condition. Her work has been exhibited widely and published in many magazines. She is co-author of several books, including Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq; and The Edward Curtis Project, co-created with Métis/Dene playwright Marie Clements. Rita has an MA in comparative literature from The University of Toronto, where she currently teaches a course on photojournalism and documentary photography.

  • Ezra Levant

    Ezra Levant is publisher of the Western Standard magazine.

  • A.J. Levin

    A.J. Levin is the author of Monks’ Fruit (Nightwood, 2004), and was the LRC’s poetry editor from 2000 to 2001. He lives in Winnipeg.

  • Timothy Lewis

    Timothy Lewis is the author of In the Long Run We’re All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint (University of British Columbia Press, 2003).

  • Evert Lindquist

    Evert Lindquist is a professor and the director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. His recent publications include “Think Tanks, Foundations and Policy Discourse: Ebbs and Flows, Investments and Responsibilities” (2006) and “There’s More to Policy Than Alignment” (2009) for Canadian Policy Research Networks.

    • Right-Wing Cabals?

      A review of Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy, by Donald Gutstein

      Published in the November 2009 Issue.

  • Richard G. Lipsey

    Richard G. Lipsey is emeritus professor of economics at Simon Fraser University. His recent book Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long-Term Economic Growth (Oxford University Press, 2005) won the Joseph Schumpeter prize for the best writing on evolutionary economics over the two years prior to its publication.


    • The End of the World As We Know It?

      A review of Peter A. Victor's Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster, and Jeff Rubin's Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

  • Bruce Little

    Bruce Little is a former economics reporter and columnist for The Globe and Mail. Since leaving the Globe in 2004, he spent a year at the Bank of Canada as a special advisor to the governor and wrote a book, Fixing the Future: How Canada's Usually Fractious Governments Worked Together to Rescue the Canada Pension Plan (University of Toronto Press, 2008)

    • Tough Times

      A review of Joseph Heath's Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism and Jim Stanford's Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism.

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

    • Iceland As Icarus

      A review of Daniel Chartter's The End of Iceland’s Innocence: The Image of Iceland in the Foreign Media during the Financial Crisis.

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

  • Katharine Lochnan

    Katharine Lochnan is senior curator and the R. Fraser Elliott Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

    • A Canadian Visionary

      Published in the April 2009 Issue.

    • The Secret Life of Flowers

      A review of The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delaney [begins her life’s work] at 72, by Molly Peacock

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • John Lorinc

    John Lorinc writes about urban affairs for Spacing and The Globe and Mail. He is the author of The New City: How the Crisis in Canada’s Urban Centres Is Reshaping the Nation (Penguin, 2006) and Cities: A Groundwork Guide (Groundwood, 2008), and has contributed to Coach House Press’s uTOpia series.

    • No Place Like Home

      A review of A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future, by Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd and Lori Culbert

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

  • Mark Lovewell

    Mark Lovewell was the founding director of Arts and Contemporary Studies at Ryerson University. He is co-publisher of the LRC.

    • The Advantages of Union

      A review of How the Scots Invented the Modern World, by Arthur Herman

      Published in the September 2002 Issue.

    • Past as Prologue

      An online review of John W. Dean's The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers - John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Goodman, Jane Jacobs, Eric W. Kierans, Martin Luther King, Jr.

    • Frozen Moments

      A review of Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers, by Dorothy Harley Eber, and Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane, by Ken McGoogan.

      Published in the April 2009 Issue.

    • Another City

      A review of Young Hunting: A Memoir, by Martin Hunter and The Great Adventure: 100 Years at the Arts and Letters Club, by Margaret McBurney

      Published in the September 2009 Issue.

    • Dangerous Liaisons

      A review of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, by Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

    • From Wedding Cake to Music Garden

      A review of Creating Memory: A Guide to Outdoor Public Sculpture in Toronto, by John Warkentin

      Published in the October 2010 Issue.

    • Made in Canada?

      A review of Jean Monnet and Canada: Early Travels and the Idea of European Unity, by Trygve Ugland

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • John Lownsbrough

    John Lownsbrough, a contributor to Toronto Life, is writing a history of Expo 67 for Penguin Canada.

    • Assisted Living or Assisted Suicide?

      A review of Joan Barfoot’s Exit Lines

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

  • Jeanette Lynes

    Jeanette Lynes is the author of three books of poetry. Two more poetry collections are forthcoming in 2008: The New Blue Distance (Wolsak and Wynn) and It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems (Freehand Books), from which this poem is taken. Her first novel is also forthcoming in 2009 from Coteau Books.

  • Michael Lynk

    Michael Lynk is the associate dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. He is also a labour arbitrator. Before donning his academic robes, he worked for a decade as a labour lawyer in private practice and on the staff of several national unions in Ottawa and Toronto.

    • Solidarity Revisted

      A review of Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles, edited by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

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  • Jack MacAndrew

    Jack MacAndrew is a former CBC producer, director and programming executive living in Prince Edward Island.

    • The Year of Anne

      A review of Budge Wilson’s Before Green Gables, Deidre Kessler’s Anne of Green Gables: Stories for Young Readers, Don Harron’s Anne of Green Gables, The Musical: 101 Things You Didn’t Know, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, Irene Gammel’s Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic and Elizabeth Waterston’s Magic Island: The Fictions of L.M. Montgomery

    • The Snowbird's Story

      A review of All of Me, by Anne Murray, with Michael Posner

      Published in the December 2009 Issue.

  • David MacGregor

    David MacGregor teaches in the Department of Sociology at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. He has written books and articles on Hegel and Marx, automobility, aging, and the sociology of evil. His current research topics include Hegelian perspectives on the Canadian state, and the secret history of the FLQ.

  • Linden MacIntyre

    Linden MacIntyre is the author of The Bishop’s Man, winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

  • Mark MacKinnon

    Mark MacKinnon is a foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail based in Beijing. Previous postings include Russia and the Middle East. He is the author of The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union, published in 2007 by Random House.

    • A Blitzkrieg of Soccer

      A review of Dave Bidini's Home and Away: In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup of Soccer

  • Kyo Maclear

    Kyo Maclear is a novelist, arts writer, and children’s author. Her second novel, A Thousand Tiny Hammers, will be published by HarperCollins Canada in 2012.

    • Imaginary Getaways

      Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

  • Alexander Macleod

    Alexander MacLeod lives in Dartmouth, NS, and teaches at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. His debut work of fiction, Light Lifting (Biblioasis, 2010), was short-listed for the Giller and Commonwealth prizes as well as the Frank O’Connor award.

    • Imaginary Getaways

      Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

  • John A. MacNaughton

    John A. MacNaughton served from 1999 to 2005 as the founding president and CEO of the CPP Investment Board. he is currently the chair of the Business Development Bank of Canada and a director of Canadian publich and private corporations and not-for-profit organizations.

    • Living in the Promised Land

      A review of Fixing the Future: How Canada's Usually Fractious Governments Worked Together to Rescue the Canada Pension Plan, by Bruce Little

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

  • Robert MacNeil

    Robert MacNeil, raised in Nova Scotia, spent 40 years in journalism, lastly with the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS. Among other books, he has written three novels and three memoirs, the most recent being Looking for My Country, Finding Myself in America (Harcourt, 2003). He lives in New York and has a summer home near Shelburne.

    • An Impossible Dream

      A review of Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783–1792, by Stephen Kimber

      Published in the October 2008 Issue.

  • Joseph E. Magnet

    Joseph Eliot Magnet, FRSC, is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. He is the author or editor of 18 books on constitutional law, most recently The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms after Twenty-Five Years (Butterworths, 2009). He is counsel to governments, corporations, First Nations and minority groups.

    • A New Vision

      A review of Une certaine idée du Québec. Parcours d’un fédéraliste. De la réflexion à l’action, by Benoît Pelletier

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Julie Mahfood

    Julie Mahfood is a writer and editor, born in Kingston, Jamaica, now living near Montreal where she hosts WIRE, a quarterly reading series for Montreal’s West Island writers. Her work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Room, carte blanche and Telling Stories: New English Stories from Quebec, and on the CD DuBref Session 1: Spoken Word Anthology.

  • Alice Major

    Alice Major's poetry collection, The Office Tower Tales, was published in 2008 by the University of Alberta Press. She has won poetry competitions, including the Malahat Review's long poem contest. Her books have been short-listed for the Pat Lowther Award, the City of Edmonton Book Prize (twice) and the Writers Guild of Alberta's Stephan G. Stephanson Award (three times). She is a past president of the League of Canadian Poets, past chair of the Edmonton Arts Council and served as the City of Edmonton's first Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2007.

  • Dan Malleck

    Dan Malleck teaches the history of medicine at Brock University and researches drug and alcohol regulation in Canada. He is the editor-in-chief of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

    • When Good Drugs Go Bad

      A review of Andrea Tone's The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers and Erika Dyck's Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus.

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

  • Jonathan Malloy

    Jonathan Malloy is a professor of political science at Carleton University and writes on religion and politics.

    • 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

      Published in the July/August 2010 Issue.

    • The Fighting Faithful

      A review of Religion in the Ranks: Belief and Religious Experience in the Canadian Forces, by Joanne Benham Rennick

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • David M. Malone

    David Malone, president of Canada’s International Development Research Centre, was Canada’s high commissioner to India and non-resident ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal, 2006–2008. His monograph Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy will be published by Oxford University Press in April 2011. The views reflected in his essays are his alone, not those of his employer.

    • Our Man in Bhutan

      How a Canadian Jesuit founded a secular education system in a remote mountain nation.

    • A Modern Latin American Hero

      A review of Edgar J. Dosman's Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901 - 1986.

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

    • In Praise of Short Books

      A review of The Forgotten Peace: Mediation at Niagara Falls, 1914, by Michael Small, and Fiscal Federalism: A Comparative Introduction, by George Anderson

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

    • Two Other Solitudes

      The India-Canada relationship has taken a long time to develop.

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • Andrea Mandel-Campbell

    Andrea Mandel-Campbell is an anchor of CTV’s Business News Network and author of Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson (Douglas and McIntyre, 2007).

    • Spies Among Us

      A review of Nest of Spies: The Startling Truth about Foreign Agents at Work within Canada’s Borders, by Fabrice de Pierrebourg and Michel Juneau-Katsuya, translated by Ray Conlogue

      Published in the December 2009 Issue.

  • Stephen Marche

    Stephen Marche is the author of Shining at the Bottom of the Sea (Penguin, 2007) and Raymond and Hannah (Harcourt, 2005). He writes columns for Esquire and the National Post. This essay has been adapted from a talk given to students in the “Literature for Our Time” lecture series organized by Nick Mount at the University of Toronto.

    • Here, Now

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

  • Gregory P. Marchildon

    Gregory P. Marchildon is the former executive director of the Romanow Commission, the Canada Research Chair at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at University of Regina and a member of the Health Evidence Network of Canada.

    • Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief

      A review of Jacques Poitras' Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy and David Adams Richards' Lord Beaverbrook

    • What’s Race Got to Do with It?

      A review of Gerard W. Boychuk's National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory and the Roots of Difference

    • Self-destructiveness and the State

      A review of W.A. Bogart's Permit But Discourage: Regulating Excessive Consumption and XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame, by Neil Seeman and Patrick Luciani.

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

    • The Real Dope

      A review of Health Care in Canada: A Citizen’s Guide to Policy and Politics, Katherine Fierlbeck

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • David Margoshes

    Dave Margoshes of Regina recently published his fourth poetry collection, The Horse Knows the Way, which was shortlisted for the Poetry Award and the Regina Book Award in the 2009 Saskatchewan Book Awards.

    • Where Jesus went (for Art Slade)

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

  • Camille Martin

    Camille Martin, a Toronto poet and collage artist, is the author of Codes of Public Sleep (BookThug, 2007). Recently she received a grant from the Ontario Arts Council to complete a book of sonnets. She teaches writing and literature at Ryerson University. Her website is www.camillemartin.ca.

  • Robert Matas

    Robert Matas has been a Vancouver-based national correspondent at The Globe and Mail since 1988. He has written extensively about the Downtown Eastside over the years and covered Robert Pickton’s trial.

    • The Questions Remain

      A review of On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women, by Stevie Cameron

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

  • Dale Matthews

    Dale Matthews is originally from North Carolina and has been living in Montreal since 2005. In February 2010 New Orleans Poetry Journal Press published a book of her poems, Wait for the Green Fire.

  • Micheline Maylor

    Micheline Maylor teaches creative writing at Mount Royal University in Calgary and is the editor of FreeFall Magazine. Her book Full Depth: The Raymond Knister Poems was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2007.

    • What I Would Give to You

      Published in the October 2010 Issue.

  • Seymour Mayne

    Seymour Mayne is the author, editor or translator of more than 50 books and monographs. His writings have been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Russian and Spanish. He is a professor of Canadian literature, Canadian studies and creative writing at the University of Ottawa.

  • Steven Mayoff

    Steven Mayoff’s fiction and poetry have appeared in literary journals across Canada, the USA, Ireland, Algeria and France. His first fiction collection, Fatted Calf Blues, is currently on the long list for the 2010 ReLit Award.

  • Steven McCabe

    Steven McCabe is a poet and multidisciplinary artist originally from the American midwest now living in Toronto. He is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Hierarchy of Loss (Ekstasis Editions, 2007). He has exhibited works on canvas, paintings on paper, collaborative artworks, mixed media sculpture and video. In 2006 he illustrated a chapbook, Orpheus and Eurydice: Before the Descent (LyricalMyrical Books), which he co-authored with Tanaz Nanavati.

  • Julia McCarthy

    Julia McCarthy, originally from Toronto, spent ten years living in the United States, Norway and South Africa before returning to Canada to settle in rural Nova Scotia. She has published one book of poetry, Stormthrower (Wolsak and Wynn, 2002). This poem is from a new manuscript.

  • Kathleen McDonnell

    Kathleen McDonnell has been writing for and about young people for more than two decades. She is the author of more than a dozen plays and five novels, including the well-regarded fantasy trilogy The Notherland Journeys. Her newest book is Emily Included, a true story about a disabled girl who fought for the right to be educated in a regular classroom.

    • Toxic Legacy

      A review of Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children, by Joel Bakan

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

  • Barbara McDougall

    Barbara McDougall is an advisor to Aird & Berlis LLP. She served as secretary of state for external affairs in the government of Brian Mulroney.

    • A Spy Story Well Told

      A review of Our Man in Tehran: Ken Taylor, the CIA and the Iran Hostage Crisis, by Robert Wright

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

  • Wendy McElroy

    Wendy McElroy is the author of nine books, a weekly commentator for FOX News and a freelance writer for a wide range of publications from Penthouse to The Globe and Mail. She lives with her husband on a farm in rural Ontario.

    • Misreading Prostitution

      A review of Gangs and Girls: Understanding Juvenile Prostitution by Michel Dorais and Patrice Corriveau, and Victor Malarek's The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It

      Published in the July/August 2009 Issue.

    • Pills in the Bedroom

      A review of Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction, by Ray Moynihan and Barbara Mintzes

  • Robert McGhee

    Robert McGhee is an archaeologist who has worked across Arctic Canada and occasionally in other circumpolar regions. His most recent book is The Thousand-Year Path: The Canada Hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2008).

    • A Different North

      A review of Settlers on the Edge: Identity and Modernization on Russia’s Arctic Frontier, by Niobe Thompson

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

    • Blowing the Whistle

      A review of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation, by Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

    • Demythologizing the Fur Trade

      A review of Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade, by Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis

      Published in the December 2010 Issue.

  • Robert McGill

    Robert McGill is the author of a novel, The Mysteries (McClelland and Stewart, 2005). He teaches Canadian literature and creative writing in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

    • From the Somme to Guernica

      A review of Underground, by June Hutton

      Published in the November 2009 Issue.

  • Ken McGoogan

    Ken McGoogan’s latest book, How the Scots Invented Canada, will be published by HarperCollins in October 2010.

  • Paul F. McKenna

    Paul F. McKenna is the president of Public Safety Innovation, Inc. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary program at Dalhousie University.

  • Neil McLaughlin

    Neil McLaughlin teaches sociological theory at McMaster University. He is currently working on studies of public intellectuals as well as op-ed writing in Canada.

    • Moral Vision, Empirical Rigour

      A review of Measuring the Mosaic: An Intellectual Biography of John Porter, by Rick Helmes-Hayes

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2010 Issue.

  • Trina McQueen

    Trina McQueen, a broadcaster and journalist, sits on the boards of the Canadian Opera Company, McClelland and Stewart and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She has served on numerous other cultural boards, including Canadian Stage, the CBC and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.

    • Witty and Wise

      A review of My Life as a Dame: The Personal and the Political in the Writings of Christina McCall, by Christina McCall, edited by Stephen Clarkson

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

    • Cinderella City

      How Hogtown transformed itself into one of the world’s great cultural capitals.

  • Rohinton Medhora

    Rohinton Medhora is vice-president of programs at the International Development Research Centre.

    • Fine-Tuning Trade

      A review of the Warwick Commission’s The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward?

      Published in the September 2008 Issue.

    • The Lonely Planet Guide to Microcredit

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

  • George Melnyk

    George Melnyk teaches Canadian studies and film studies at the University of Calgary.

  • Matthew Mendelsohn

    Matthew Mendelsohn is the founding director of the Mowat Centre in the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. He has served as a deputy minister in the Ontario government, including in Cabinet Office and Intergovernmental Affairs, taught at Queen’s University and worked for the federal government in the Privy Council Office.

  • Alanna Mitchell

    Alanna Mitchell is a journalist and author who writes about science and the environment. Her most recent book, Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis (McClelland and Stewart, 2010), is an international bestseller and won the Grantham Prize in 2010.

    • Green Menace

      A review of The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World’s Freshwaters and Estuaries, by David W. Schindler and Jack R. Vallentyne

      Published in the September 2008 Issue.

    • Joy in Battle

      A review of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, by Tzeporah Berman with Mark Leiren-Young

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Jack Mitchell

    Jack Mitchell is a professor of Roman history at Dalhousie University and the author of two historical novels for young adults, The Roman Conspiracy and The Ancient Ocean Blues. A third novel, Chariots of Gaul, will appear in 2012. All three are published by Tundra Books.

    • Dying in Hell

      A review of Passchendaele, a film by Paul Gross; of Norman Leach's Passchendaele: Canada’s Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders; and of Paul Gross's novel Passchendaele

    • A Loaded Anniversary

      A review of D. Peter MacLeod's Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham; of Jacques Lacoursière's and Hélène Quimper's Québec ville assiégée; of Joy Carroll's Wolfe and Montcalm: Their Lives, Their Times, and the Fate of a Continent; of Gérard Saint-Martin's Les plaines d'Abraham: L'adieu à la Nouvelle-France?; and of Stephen Manning's Quebec: The Story of Three Sieges.

    • Quebec's Anti-Hero

      A review of René Lévesque, by Daniel Poliquin

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

    • Doing as the Romans Do

      A review of Imperial Republics: Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French Revolution, by Edward G. Andrew

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Victoria Mohr-Blakeney

    Victoria Mohr-Blakeney is a choreographer, visual artist and creator. She is a graduate of the Banff Centre’s Writing with Style program (2008). Her poem “Sleep Jars” is an excerpt from a full-length narrative poem titled The Night I Slept in Your Throat. She lives, writes and works in Toronto.

    • The Night I Slept in Your Throat (an excerpt)

      Published in the July/August 2011 Issue.

  • Jacques Monet

    Jacques Monet, S.J., the director of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies, recently published the chapter on “The Jesuits in New France” in The Cambridge Companion to Jesuits (Cambridge University Press, 2008), edited by Thomas Worcester.

    • The Innu and the Jesuit

      A review of The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert, by Emma Anderson

      Published in the September 2008 Issue.

  • Tim Mook Sang

    Tim Mook Sang is an Ottawa-based poet whose work has been published in Bywords Quarterly Journal, New Fairy Tales, Canadian Literature and Crow Toes Quarterly. He has recently taken part in Arc Magazine’s Poet-in-Residence program.

  • Christopher Moore

    Christopher Moore is a Toronto writer and historian and recently the author of From Then to Now: A Short History of the World (Tundra Books, 2011).

  • Lisa Moore

    Lisa Moore’s most recent book February was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

  • Pamela Mordecai

    Pamela Mordecai writes poems, stories, plays and textbooks, among them Journey Poem (Sandberry, 1989), de man: a performance poem (Sister Vision, 1995), Certifiable (Goose Lane, 2001), The True Blue of Islands (Sandberry, 2005), Pink Icing: Stories (Insomniac, 2006) and, with Martin Mordecai, Culture and Customs of Jamaica (Greenwood Press, 2000).

  • Cara-Lyn Morgan

    Cara-Lyn Morgan lives and works in Mississauga, Ontario. She has just completed her first book-length collection of poems, which explores planes of grief ranging from the specific loss of an individual to the wider, cultural grieving associated with the loss of family stories and cultural identity.

  • A.F Moritz

    A.F. Moritz ’s The Sentinel (House of Anansi, 2008) received the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize and was chosen by The Globe and Mail for its “100 Best Books of 2009” and its “39 Books of the Decade.” He is editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009.

  • Blaise Moritz

    Blaise Moritz lives in Toronto. He is the author of Crown and Ribs (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2007).

    • Old Polonius

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Desmond Morton

    Desmond Morton, author of 40 books on Canadian military, political and labour history, was the founding director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.

    • Navigating Imperial Rivers

      A review of Mohawks on the Nile: Natives among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884–1885, by Carl Benn

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2010 Issue.

    • Dashed Hopes

      A review of The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe's Troubled Past and Uncertain Future, by Anna Porter

  • Daniel D. Moses

    Daniel David Moses is a poet, playwright and essayist. His dramas have been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award (Coyote City, 1991) and won the James Buller Memorial Award (The Indian Medicine Shows, 1996). His poetry includes three collections: Delicate Bodies (Nightwood Editions, 1992), The White Line (Fifth House, 1990) and Sixteen Jesuses (Exile Editions, 2000). He recently co-edited The Exile Book of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama (Exile Editions, forthcoming) with Barry Callaghan.

  • Tomasz Mrozewski

    Tomasz Mrozewski, a writer and editor, currently divides his time between Toronto and London, where he is pursuing a master’s in library and information science at the University of Western Ontario.

    • Train of Thought

      A review of Automatic World, by Struan Sinclair

      Published in the October 2009 Issue.

  • Ian Mulgrew

    Ian Mulgrew is a legal affairs columnist with The Vancouver Sun and author or co-author of several non-fiction books including Bud Inc.: Inside Canada's Marijuana Industry (Random House, 2005). He can be reached at imulgrew[at]vancouversun.com.

    • The New Bogeymen

      A review of Gangland: The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels From El Paso to Vancouver, by Jerry Langton

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • George Murray

    George Murray is the author of six books of poetry, including the forthcoming Whiteout (ECW Press, 2012), Glimpse, Selected Aphorisms (ECW Press, 2010), The Rush to Here (Nightwood, 2007) and The Hunter (McClelland and Stewart, 2003). He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and was poetry editor of the LRC from 1999 to 2001.

  • Susan Musgrave

    Susan Musgrave has been nominated and received awards in five different genres—poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, children’s writing—and for her work as an editor. She teaches at the University of British Columbia in the Optional Residency Creative Writing MFA Programme and conducts workshops in libraries, prisons, high schools and psychiatric wards across the country. Her latest book, You’re in Canada Now… A Memoir of Sorts, was published by Thistledown in the fall of 2005.

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  • Wanda Nanibush

    Wanda Nanibush is the Executive Director of ANDPVA, the oldest indigenous arts organization. She is also a curator whose work re-contextualizes indigenous time-based media and performance art in terms of its philosophical complexity and rethinks how culture is framed. Her shows have included Mapping Resistances, Post Colonial Stress Disorder, Rez-Erection and Chronotopic Village. Her recent writing appears in FUSE and This is an Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Blockades.

  • Jim Nason

    Jim Nason is the author of two collections of poetry, If Lips Were as Red (Palmerston Press, 1991) and The Fist of Remembering (Wolsak and Wynn 2006). In 2007, The Housekeeping Journals, his first novel, was published by Turnstone Press.

  • H.V. Nelles

    H.V. Nelles, the L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History at McMaster University, recently published with his co-author, Christopher Armstrong, The Painted Valley: Artists Along Alberta’s Bow River, 1845–2000 (University of Calgary Press, 2007).

    • That Old-Time Religion

      A review of The Good Steward: The Ernest C. Manning Story, by Brian Brennan

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

  • Peter C. Newman

    Peter C. Newman has written 25 books, most recently Mavericks: Canadian Rebels, Renegades and Anti-Heroes and Heroes: Canadian Champions, Dark Horses and Icons, both published by HarperCollins in 2010.

    • The Adventurers Are Back

      A review of James Raffan's Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company and Deirdre Simmons' Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives

    • The New Canadian Establishment

      A review of Gordon Pitts' Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite

    • Canada’s Boswell

      A review of Peter Gzowski: A Biography, by R.B. Fleming

      Published in the October 2010 Issue.

  • Andrew Ng

    Andrew Ng was most recently junior fellow in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. He now lives in Ottawa and can be reached at andrew.yc.ng[at]gmail.com.

  • Peter Norman

    Peter Norman’s poetry has appeared in Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008.

  • Noah B. Novogrodsky

    Noah B. Novogrodsky is the director of the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

  • Steve Noyes

    Steve Noyes’s fourth collection of poetry, Morbidity and Ornament, was published by Oolichan Books in 2009. Signature Editions will publish his first novel, It Is Just That Your House Is So Far Away, in May 2010.

    • Midwinter by the Dryer Vent

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

    • Wolf

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

    • At the Raptor Centre

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

  • Donna Bailey Nurse

    Donna Bailey Nurse is the editor of Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing (McClelland and Stewart, 2006).

    • A Political Pioneer

      A review of “Go to School, You’re a Little Black Boy”—The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander: A Memoir, by Lincoln M. Alexander, with Herb Shoveller

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

    • Imaginary Getaways

      Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

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  • Kathryn O'Hara

    Kathryn O’Hara is the president of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association and a journalism professor at Carleton University.

    • Passionate Darwinism

      A review of Evolution: The View from the Cottage, by Jean-Pierre Rogel, translated by Nigel Spencer

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • Martin O'Malley

    Martin O’Malley has written nine non-fiction books and a movie. He is working on a memoir.

    • Storms Are Easy, Marriage Is Hard

      A review of The Carnivore, by Mark Sinnett

      Published in the October 2010 Issue.

  • Keith Oatley

    Keith Oatley is professor emeritus of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and winner of the 1994 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel. His most recent novel, Therefore Choose, was published in 2010 by Goose Lane. His book Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction is being published in July by Wiley. He wishes to thank his colleagues Maja Djikic, Jacob Hirsch, Raymond Mar, Jennifer de la Paz, Jordan Peterson and Sara Zoeterman.

  • Alexander Offord

    Alexander Offord is a writer of plays, poems and short stories. He divides his time between Guelph, Ontario, where he is a student, and his home in Toronto, a city that plays a starring role in many of his works.

    • “Bloor & Eyeless Ave.”

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

  • David Olive

    David Olive is a business and current affairs columnist at The Toronto Star

    • A Hotel for All Seasons

      A review of Isadore Sharp's Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy

      Published in the July/August 2009 Issue.

  • Christopher Ondaatje

    Sir Christopher Ondaatje is the author of ten books, including the bestselling Journey to the Source of the Nile and Hemingway in Africa. He is a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery in England, and was knighted by the Queen in 2003.

    • The Real Citizen Kane

      A review of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst, by Kenneth Whyte

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

  • David Orrell

    David Orrell is a mathematician and the author of several books, including Apollo's Arrow: The Science of Prediction and the Future of Everything (HarperCollins 2007). His next book is Economyths: Ten Ways that Economics Gets It Wrong, forthcoming from Wiley. His website is www.davidorrell.com.

    • Blind Oracles

      A review of Florin Diacu's Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe

  • Lars Osberg

    Lars Osberg is University Research Professor in the Economics Department of Dalhousie University in Halifax.

    • Is It All Quebec’s Fault?

      A review of Brian Lee Crowley’s

      Published in the October 2009 Issue.

    • What Causes Social Inequality?

      A review of Power and Inequality: A Comparative Introduction, by Gregg M. Olsen

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • Taylor Owen

    Taylor Owen is a post-doctoral fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Read more at www.TaylorOwen.com.

    • Progressivism's End

      In Obama, both Americans and Canadians can see the promise of something new.

    • A World Turned Upside Down

      A review of Getting Back in the Game: A Foreign Policy Playbook for Canada, by Paul Heinbecker and Open Canada: A Global Positioning Strategy for a Networked Age, by Edward Greenspon

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  • Laurence Packer

    Laurence Packer teaches entomology and biodiversity, studies bees and is the author of Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at Risk and What We Can Do to Save Them, published by HarperCollins in 2010.

    • Wilful Blindness

      A review of Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests, by Andrew Nikiforuk

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • P. K. Page

    P.K. Page writes: “I find the glosa form intriguing, from the initial search for four stealable lines, to the almost crossword puzzle-like execution of the poem itself. A new book of glosas is my ongoing project. I have recently published a book of essays, The Filled Pen: Selected Non-Fiction (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and a book of short stories, Up on the Roof (Porcupine’s Quill, 2007). Forthcoming: Jake the Baker Makes a Cake, a children’s play in verse.

  • Pamela D. Palmater

    Pamela D. Palmater is a Mi'kmaq lawyer from the Eel River Bar First Nation in New Brunswick. She is head of Ryerson University’s new Centre for Indigenous Governance.

    • Opportunity or Temptation?

      A review of Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property RIghts by Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara, and André Le Dressay

    • Courting Controversy

      A review of Bad Medicine: A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community, by John Reilly

  • Elizabeth Palmer

    Elizabeth Palmer is a foreign correspondent for CBS News, based in London. Previously she was a correspondent in Mexico City and Moscow for the CBC.

    • Neglectful Disrespect

      A review of Bomb Canada: And Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media, by Chantal Allan

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

  • Jeremy Paltiel

    Jeremy Paltiel is a professor of political science at Carleton University. His most recent book is The Empire’s New Clothes: Cultural Particularism and Universal Value in China's Quest for Global Status (Palgrave, 2007).

    • Spiritual Dissent

      An online review of Falun Gong and the Future of China, by David Ownby

  • Erna Paris

    Erna Paris’s most recent book is The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America (Knopf, 2008).

    • Are We Being Helpful?

      A review of Patricia Marchak’s No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes Against Humanity

  • Steve Patten

  • Molly Peacock

    Molly Peacock is a poet and creative nonfiction writer. She was the LRC’s poetry editor from 2005 to 2008; she is currently a contributing editor. Her latest work of non-fiction is The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 (McClelland and Stewart, 2010), and her most recent collection of poems is The Second Blush (McClelland and Stewart, 2009). Molly is a faculty mentor at the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Program and also series editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English.

  • Christopher Pennington

    Christopher Pennington teaches history at the University of Toronto Scarborough and is the author of The Destiny of Canada: Macdonald, Laurier and the Election of 1891 (Penguin, 2011).

    • The Great Compromiser

      A review of Andre Pratte's Wilfrid Laurier.

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

  • Allan Peterkin

    Allan Peterkin, MC, is a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Toronto, where he heads the Health, Arts and Humanities Program. He is founding editor of Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities.

    • On the Gurney

      A review of Opening My Heart: A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again, by Tilda Shalof, and My Operation: A Health Insider Becomes a Patient, by Sholom Glouberman

      Published in the September 2011 Issue.

  • Geoff Pevere

    Geoff Pevere Geoff Pevere writes about media and culture for The Toronto Star. His most recent book is Toronto on Film (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009).

    • The Post-Celluloid Era

      A review of Hervé Fischer's The Decline of the Hollywood Empire

    • A Billion Clips a Day

      A review of Watching YouTube: Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People, by Michael Strangelove

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

    • Back to the Garden

      A review of Clarke Mackey's Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art and Community in the 21st Century

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue.

  • E. Alex Pierce

    E. Alex Pierce lives in East Sable River, Nova Scotia, where she is developing a centre for writers and artists. For ten years she taught creative writing at Cape Breton University, and is currently series editor for the CBU Press publication The Essential Cape Breton Library. She holds a master of fine arts in creative writing from Warren Wilson College and has participated in the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre. Her first collection of poems, Vox Humana, will be published by Brick Books in the fall of 2011.

  • Ruth R. Pierson

    Ruth Roach Pierson, professor emerita of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, has published three books of poems, the first two with BuschekBooks of Ottawa: Where No Window Was(2002) and Aide-Memoire(2007), which was named a finalist for the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. Her third collection, entitled Contrary, has just appeared with Tightrope Books of Toronto.

  • Patrick M. Pilarski

    Patrick M. Pilarski is the co-editor of DailyHaiku, an international journal of contemporary English-language haiku. Patrick's work appears in The Antigonish Review, PRISM International and The New Quarterly.

    • if the ocean was a prophet...

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

  • Kerry Pither

    Kerry Pither is a human rights activist and author of Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror (Penguin, 2008).

    • Official Blackmail

      A review of Our Friendly Local Terrorist, by Mary Jo Leddy

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • James Pitsula

    James M. Pitsula is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Regina, and author of For All We Have and Are: Regina and the Experience of the Great War (University of Manitoba Press, 2008).

    • A Great Human Tragedy

      A review of Happyland: A History of the “Dirty Thirties” in Saskatchewan, 1914–1937, by Curtis R. McManus

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

  • Jacques Poitras

    Jacques Poitras is the provincial affairs reporter for CBC News in New Brunswick. His book Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy (Goose Lane, 2007) was a national bestseller. His most recent book, Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border, was published in September 2011 by Goose Lane Editions.

    • Heroism and Villainy

      A review of Heroes of the Acadian Resistance: The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Suette, 1702-1765, by Dianne Marshall

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Daniel Poliquin

    Daniel Poliquin is a fiction writer, essayist and translator. His latest book was a contribution to Penguin Canada's series Extraordinary Canadians, a biography of Trudeau's nemesis René Lévesque, which was nominated for the prestigious Charles Taylor Prize and several others.

    • The Pierre We Hardly Knew

      A review of Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965, Volume Two, by Monique and Max Nemni, translated by George Tombs

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • James Pollock

    James Pollock is a poet and critic who grew up in Ontario and teaches creative writing at Loras College in Iowa. He is currently writing a book on Canadian poetry, You Are Here: Essays on the Art of Poetry in Canada Since 1990, which will be published by The Porcupine's Quill in 2011.

    • Choosing the Best Canadian Poetry

      Published in the April 2009 Issue.

  • Richard Poplak

    Richard Poplak has just published Kenk: A Graphic Portrait (Pop Sandbox, 2010). He is also the author of The Sheikh’s Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World (Penguin, 2009) and Ja No Man: Growing Up White in Apartheid-Era South Africa (Penguin, 2007).

    • Football Fables

      A review of The World Is a Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer, by John Doyle

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

  • Anna Porter

    Anna Porter is the author of Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of Rezsó Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust and of The Storyteller: A Memoir of Secrets, Magic and Lies. Her most recent book, The Ghosts of Europe (Douglas and McIntyre, 2010) is the winner of the 2010 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize. She was the founding publisher of Key Porter Books.

  • Andrew Potter

    Andrew Potter is a public affairs columnist for Maclean’s.

  • André Pratte

    André Pratte is editorial page editor at La Presse. He has written several books on politics and the media and received the Canadian Journalism Award for Editorial Writing in 2007 and 2008.

    • Fearful Acrimony

      The seductive danger of scapegoating Quebec.

      Published in the July/August 2010 Issue.

  • Tim Prior

    Tim Prior is a Toronto-based teacher and poet whose work has appeared in a variety of Canadian literary journals including The Antigonish Review, Canadian Literature, CV2, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Quarry, Queen’s Quarterly and Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad.

    • christine tsorihia sees the virgin

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Mark F. Proudman

    Mark F. Proudman works in Ottawa. He holds a doctorate in imperial history from Oxford University.

    • Rule America?

      A review of American Raj: Liberation or Domination? by Eric S. Margolis

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

  • Martin Provencher

    Martin Provencher is a professor of philosophy at the Collège de Rosemont in Montreal. Since 2010, he has been a visiting fellow at the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CREUM). This article has been translated from French by Jack Mitchell.

    • Who Gets In?

      A review of Citizenship and Immigration, by Christian Joppke

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Rachel Pulfer

    Rachel Pulfer is the international programs director for Journalists for Human Rights.

    • Free-Fall Employment

      A review of Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Employment, by Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke and Alice de Wolff

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  • Bob Rae

    Bob Rae is the member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and the Liberal Party of Canada’s critic on foreign affairs.

    • Possessing Anarchist Tendencies

      A review of Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, by Michael Petrou

      Published in the June 2008 Issue.

  • Vivian Rakoff

    Vivian Rakoff is professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Toronto. He has written plays, poetry and essays.

    • Flight from Europe

      A review of In a Pale Blue Light, by Lily Poritz Miller

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

  • Kasi V.P. Rao

    Kasi V.P. Rao is a consultant who provides strategic guidance to public and private sector organizations on higher education, government relations, corporate relations and policy issues, with a particular focus on India.

  • Norm Ravvin

    Norman Ravvin’s new novel is The Joyful Child (2010), from Gaspereau Press. His essays on North American Jewish writing are collected in A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997). He is chair of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.

    • Homage or Hoax?

      A review of Anne Michaels' The Winter Vault.

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

    • Troubling Tactics

      A review of Michael R. Marrus's Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s

    • Provocative Idealist

      A review of Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran.

  • David Reibetanz

    David Reibetanz has published poetry in numerous journals and anthologies. In 2004, he won the Petra Kenney Poetry Prize (for young poets). He publish his second chapbook, the space inside the waves, with Aeolus House (2008).

  • John Reibetanz

    John Reibetanz has published seven collections. His poems have appeared in such magazines as Poetry (Chicago), The Paris Review, Canadian Literature and The Fiddlehead. His writing has been shortlisted for the National Magazine and ReLit Awards, and he has won first prize in the international Petra Kenney Competition. Recent work appears in The Best Canadian Poetry 2009 and Vallum, and is forthcoming from The Walrus and the Alfred Gustav chapbook series.

    • The Angels of Winter

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • Dennis Reid

    Dennis Reid is Chief Curator, Research, at the Art Gallery of Ontario and a professor of the history of art at the University of Toronto.

    • Troubled Brilliance

      A review of Bringing Art to Life: A Biography of Alan Jarvis, by Andrew Horrall

      Published in the December 2009 Issue.

  • Jeffrey G. Reitz

    Jeffrey G. Reitz is the R.F. Harney Professor of Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies at the University of Toronto. His most recent book is Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion: Potentials and Challenges of Diversity (Springer, 2009; with co-authors Raymond Breton, Karen Kisiel Dion and Kenneth L. Dion).

  • Philip Resnick

    Philip Resnick is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia. His books include The European Roots of Canadian Identity (Broadview Press, 2005), Twenty-First Century Democracy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997) and The Masks of Proteus: Canadian Reflections on the State (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990).

    • A Happy Marriage of Convenience

      A review of Reconquering Canada: Quebec Federalists Speak Up for Change, edited by André Pratte, translated by Patrick Watson, and Secession and Self: Quebec in Canadian Thought, by Gregory Millard

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

    • American or British Liberty?

      A review of Le concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776–1838), by Michel Ducharme

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

    • El Café Para Todos

      A review of Contemporary Majority Nationalism, edited by Alain-G. Gagnon, André Lecours and Geneviève Nootens

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

  • John Richards

    John Richards, a former member of the Saskatchewan legislature, teaches in the graduate public policy program at Simon Fraser University and holds the Roger Phillips chair in social policy at the C.D. Howe Institute.

    • Canada's Candide

      While Calgary wants to govern, Vancouver cultivates its garden.

    • Vision, Reason, Commitment

      A review of Freedom from Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That’s Winning the Fight Against Poverty, by Ian Smillie

      Published in the October 2009 Issue.

  • Peter Richardson

    Peter Richardson has published three collections of poetry with Véhicule Press: A Tinkers’ Picnic (1999), An ABC of Belly Work (2003) and Sympathy for the Couriers (2007), which won the Quebec Writers’ Federation 2008 A.M. Klein Award. His work has appeared in Descant, Poetry Magazine and The Malahat Review, among others. He lives in Gatineau.

  • Robin Richardson

    Robin Richardson is the author of Grunt of the Minotaur, released in fall 2011 by Insomniac Press. She is pursuing her master's of fine arts in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Her work has appeared in many Canadian an international journals including CV2, The Puritan, The Cortland Review, Dandelion Magazine, the Berkeley Poetry Review and the Westchester Review.

    • Ship's Prow Is the Cubist Slate They Call a Face

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Noah Richler

    Noah Richler’s This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada won the 2007 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. He is currently at work on a book about the Digby Neck, Nova Scotia.

    • Remembering a Magus

      A review of Val Ross’s Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic

      Published in the September 2008 Issue.

    • The Legless Castaway

      A review of Jerome: Solving the Mystery of Nova Scotia’s Silent Castaway, by Fraser Mooney, Jr.

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

  • Ian Ritchie

    Reverend Doctor Ian Ritchie is the rector of St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Kingston and the interfaith officer for the Diocese of Ontario.

    • African Reformation

      A review of Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria, by Ruth Marshall

      Published in the September 2009 Issue.

  • Erika Ritter

    Erika Ritter is a novelist, playwright and non-fiction writer living in Toronto.

    • A Living Past and a Complex Present

      A review of Bill Gaston’s The Order of Good Cheer

      Published in the September 2008 Issue.

    • Between Two Worlds

      A review of Joan Thomas’s Reading by Lightning

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

    • Sex, Death and Education

      A review of Alone in the Classroom, by Elizabeth Hay

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

  • Bob Robertson

    Bob Robertson is a Vancouver writer and member of the comedy group Double Exposure.

  • Colin Robertson

    Colin Robertson is senior strategic advisor to McKenna, Long and Aldridge LLP. A former Canadian diplomat, he was part of the team that negotiated the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement and NAFTA. He also served in New York, Los Angeles and Washington.

    • Benefits of Empire

      A review of Lineages of Despotism and Development: British Colonialism and State Power, by Matthew Lange

      Published in the September 2009 Issue.

    • Kowtowing to the Hegemon

      A review of In Roosevelt’s Bright Shadow: Presidential Addresses about Canada from Taft to Obama in Honour of FDR’s 1938 Speech at Queen’s University, edited by Arthur Milnes, and At Home and Abroad: The Canada-U.S. Relationship and Canada’s Place in the World, by Patrick Lennox

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

  • John Robinson

    John Robinson is a professor in the Institute for Environment, Resources and Sustainability and the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia.

  • Laura Robinson

    Laura Robinson is a former member of the national cycling team, former Canadian rowing champion, and Ontario Nordic ski champion. The Vancouver Olympics will be her fifth to cover as a journalist. She coaches the Anishinaabe Nordic Racers at Cape Croker First Nation Elementary School in Ontario.

  • Spider Robinson

    Spider Robinson’s collaborators include Jeanne Robinson (The Stardance Trilogy, Baen, 2006), the late Robert A. Heinlein (Variable Star, Tom Doherty Associates, 2006) and David Crosby (“On the Way to the Stars”). A 1960s survivor just entering his sixties, Robinson wrote the introduction for Stephen Gaskin’s Amazing Dope Tails: Haight Street Flashbacks (Ronin Publishing, 1980). His podcast Spider on the Web can be downloaded free from either iTunes or www.spiderrobinson.com, and a video of his wife, Jeanne, experimenting with dance in zero gravity can be seen at www.stardancemovie.com.

  • Thomas M. Robinson

    Thomas M. Robinson is professor emeritus of philosophy and classics at the University of Toronto. In 1998 he was a recipient of the Aristotle Award.

    • Classical Genius

      A review of The Golden Mean, by Annabel Lyon

      Published in the December 2009 Issue.

  • John Robson

    John Robson is a columnist with the Ottawa Citizen, a policy analyst and a host with Breakout Educational Network and an invited professor at the University of Ottawa.

  • Bob Rodgers

    Bob Rodgers is currently editorial director of Northrop Frye on the Bible and Literature, a 24-part new media series based on recently recovered archives of Frye’s celebrated video lectures on the Bible and literature. He can be reached at bobrodgers@bell.net.

    • The Inner Frye

      A review of Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architect of the Spiritual World, Volume 5 and Volume 6, edited by Robert D. Denham, and The “Third Book” Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964–1972: The Critical Comedy, Volume 9, edited by Michael Dolzani

      Published in the April 2007 Issue.

    • In the Garden with the Guru

      Adventures with Marshall McLuhan

    • Return to Grassy Narrows

      A poisoned community tells its 40-year-old story.

    • Rogue Naturalist

      The forgotten legacy of a driven, self-taught environmentalist.

      Published in the October 2011 Issue.

  • Robin Roger

    Robin Roger is an associate editor of the LRC as well as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist practising in Toronto.

    • Beyond Empathy

      A review of The Other Sister, by Lola Lemire Tostevin

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

    • Resurrected Corpses

      A review of Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival, by Michael Dorland

      Published in the September 2010 Issue.

  • James Roots

    James Roots lives in Kanata, Ontario.

    • Green-Tinged Hypocrisy

      A review of Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada, by Adria Vasil; David Suzuki's Green Guide, by David Suzuki and David R. Boyd; Almost Green: How I Built an Eco-Shed, Ditched My SUV, Alienated the In-Laws and Changed My Life Forever, by James Glave; The Daily Planet Book of Cool Ideas: Global Warming and What People Are Doing About It, by Jay Ingram; Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? My Confused, Guilt-Ridden and Stressful Attempt to Raise a Green Family, by Robyn Harding; and Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff, by Fred Pearce

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

    • Lest We Forget

      A review of Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914–18, Volume 1: At the Sharp End and Volume 2: Shock Troops, by Tim Cook

      Published in the November 2009 Issue.

    • Northern Treasure

      A review of Charlotte Gray's Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue.

    • Walking Across Canada

      A review of The Amazing Foot Race of 1921: Halifax to Vancouver in 134 Days, by Shirley Jean Roll Tucker

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • Cecil Rosner

    Cecil Rosner is the managing editor for CBC Manitoba and the author of Behind the Headlines: A History of Investigative Journalism in Canada (Oxford University Press, 2008).

    • The Truth Hurts

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

      Published in the July/August 2010 Issue.

  • Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein

    Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein is poetry editor of the Jewish Quarterly and Associate Editor of Kilimanjaro: Creative Art & Design. His poetry has been published in many British and Canadian literary journals and selected for The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008. He is currently a visiting scholar at Massey College and a researcher at the Northrop Frye Centre at the University of Toronto.

    • The Cree in Crisis

      A review of Through Black Spruce, by Joseph Boyden

      Published in the November 2008 Issue.

    • Most Wanted

      Published in the October 2009 Issue.

  • Wade Rowland

    Wade Rowland is a former producer and senior executive at both CBC and CTV, and is now a professor at York University, teaching in the joint York-Ryerson graduate program in communication and culture and in the Atkinson School of Arts and Letters program in culture and expression. He is a former Maclean Hunter Chair of Ethics in Communication at Ryerson University and is author of a number of books, including Greed, Inc. (Thomas Allen, 2005), Galileo’s Mistake (Arcade Publishing, 2003), Spirit of the Web (Key Porter, 1999) and Ockham’s Razor (Key Porter, 1999). He is an unreconstructed CBC radio addict.

  • Ronald Rudin

    Ronald Rudin is a professor of history at Concordia University and author of two books touching on the memory of Champlain: Found Fathers: Champlain and Laval in the Streets of Quebec (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian's Journey through Public Memory (University of Toronto Press, 2009).

    • A Very American Champlain

      A review of David Hackett Fischer’s Champlain’s Dream: The Visionary Adventurer Who Made a New World in Canada

      Published in the April 2009 Issue.

  • Norbert Ruebsaat

    Norbert Ruebsaat travelled and studied in Haida Gwaii in the early 1990s and has written articles and book reviews related to the Queen Charlotte Islands for magazines and newspapers including Geist, Borderlines, The Vancouver Sun and The New Catalyst. His radio documentary “Walking around Eating,” a collaboration with Diane Brown from Skidegate, aired on CBC Radio's Ideas in 1996. To read more of his writing online, visit www.dooneyscafe.com or www.geist.com.

    • Words of an Artist

      A review of Solitary Raven: The Essential Writings of Bill Reid, edited by Robert Bringhurst

  • Michael Ruse

    Michael Ruse, after 35 years of teaching at the University of Guelph, now teaches at Florida State University, where he spends the winters thanking God that he no longer lives in Ontario and the summers wishing to God that he did.

    • Darwin on My Mind

      A review of Ronald de Sousa's Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind

  • Peter H. Russell

    Peter H. Russell is a professor emeritus of political science and the principal of Senior College at the University of Toronto. During the patriation events he was a television commentator for the CBC.

    • Showdown in Ottawa

      A review of The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau, the Gang of Eight and the Fight for Canada, by
      Ron Graham

      Published in the September 2011 Issue.

  • Mary Rutherford

    Mary Rutherford worked for many years as a researcher for several Canadian authors including Pierre Berton, Kenneth Bagnell and Jack Batten. She was shortlisted in the CBC Literary Awards competition in 2005. An avid birder, she lives in Toronto.

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  • Devyani Saltzman

    Devyani Saltzman is the author of the internationally published memoir Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey and the Making of a Film (Key Porter, 2005). She is curator of literary programming for Luminato, and is working on her first novel.

    • A Towering Work of Fiction

      A review of Thus Speaks the CN Tower, by Hédi Bouraoui, translated by Elizabeth Sabiston

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

  • Sara F. Sarkar

    Sara F. Sarkar has conducted research in plant genetics and performance measures for non-profits, worked in sustainable agriculture and international development, volunteered in community urban farming and led public affairs discussions on food and agriculture.

    • Down on the Farm

      A review of Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, by Brian Brett, and The War in the Country: How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future, by Thomas F. Pawlick

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

  • Brent Sasley

    Brent Sasley teaches political science at the University of Texas at Arlington.

    • Who Calls the Shots?

      An inquiry into the effect of Jewish and Arab lobbies on Canadian Middle East policy.

  • John Ralston Saul

    John Ralston Saul is author of A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada (Viking, 2008) and chair of the LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium.

    • Listen to the North

      Cramming northerners’ needs into a southern model just isn’t working.

    • Hitting the Road

      A literary car-trip across Canada

    • Listen to the North

      Cramming northerners’ needs into a southern model just isn’t working.

  • Doug Saunders

    Doug Saunders is the London-based European bureau chief for The Globe and Mail and author of Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (Knopf Canada, 2010).

    • The Not-So-Mighty Dollar

      A review of Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirschner's The Future of the Dollar

    • The Rights of Refugees

      A review of Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What to Do About It, by Andy Lamey, and Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers, by Ruben Zaiotti

  • Donald J. Savoie

    Donald J. Savoie is Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at the Université de Moncton.

    • Ottawa’s Greatest Mandarin

      A review of Behind the Scenes: The Life and Work of William Clifford Clark, by Robert A. Wardhaugh

      Published in the October 2010 Issue.

  • Rebecca Saxe

    Rebecca Saxe researches the cognitive neuroscience of social cognition—how we think about other minds—in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • William Schabas

    William Schabas is a professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was one of three international members of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

    • Truth vs. Reconciliation?

      As Canada’s residential schools commission launches, worldwide precedents suggest we might not get both.­­­

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

  • Arthur Schafer

    Arthur Schafer is the director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.

  • Stephen Schneider

    Stephen Schneider is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary's University. He is the author of four books, including his latest, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, which was published in 2009 by John Wiley and Sons.

  • Donald M. Schurman

    Donald M. Schurman taught at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, and is the author of numerous books on military history, most recently Imperial Defence, 1868–1887, published in 2000 by Frank Cass.

    • The Strange War in Ireland

      A review of Grounded in Eire: The Story of Two RAF Fliers Interned in Ireland during World War II, by Ralph Keefer

      Published in the September 2002 Issue.

  • Peter Dale Scott

    Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His poetry includes the trilogy Seculum: Coming to Jakarta (1988), Listening to the Candle (1992) and Minding the Darkness (2000), and also Murmur of the Stars (1994). His new book of poems, Mosaic Orpheus, will appear from McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2009. His website is peterdalescott.net. In 2002, he received the Lannan Poetry Award.

    • A Simple, Difficult Lesson in Thai

      Published in the September 2008 Issue.

  • Reed Scowen

    Reed Scowen, a member of the LRC’s advisory council, is the author of two books on contemporary Quebec politics. From 1978 to 1984 he and Jacques Parizeau were both members of Quebec’s National Assembly.

    • An Exercise in Opposites

      A review ofFrank Moores: The Time of His Life, by Janice Wells, and An Honourable Calling: Political Memoirs, by Allan Blakeney

      Published in the April 2009 Issue.

    • Searching for Clarity

      A review of La souveraineté du Québec: Hier, aujourd’hui et demain, by Jacques Parizeau

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

  • Hugh Segal

    Hugh Segal, author of the recently released The Right Balance: Canada’s Conservative Tradition (Douglas and McIntyre), is an Ontario senator and former president of the Institute for Research on Public Policy.

    • An Insider Speaks

      A review of Tales from the Back Room: Memories of a Political Insider, by Michael Decter

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Peter Seixas

    Peter Seixas is a professor and the Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. He is the editor of Theorizing Historical Consciousness (University of Toronto Press, 2004).

    • Imperial America

      A review of The Perils of Empire: America and Its Imperial Predecessors, by James Laxer, and What Is America? A Short History of the New World Order, by Ronald Wright

      Published in the November 2008 Issue.

  • Yadi Sharifirad

    Yadi Sharifirad was a colonel and squadron commander fighter pilot in the Iranian Air Force in the 1970s and ’80s. After being imprisoned and tortured, he eventually escaped Iran with his family and now lives in Vancouver.

    • Escape to Turkey

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

  • Andrew Sharpe

    Andrew Sharpe is executive director of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards and the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, both based in Ottawa.

    • Beyond the Counting House

      A review of The Sum of the Satisfactions: Canada in the Age of National Accounting, by Duncan McDowall

      Published in the November 2008 Issue.

  • Michelle Shephard

    Michelle Shephard is the national security correspondent for The Toronto Star and author of Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone (Douglas and McIntyre, 2011) and Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr (Wiley, 2008).

    • The World Turns

      A review of The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism, by Kent Roach

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Ann Shin

    Ann Shin has been published in anthologies and magazines in Canada and the United States. Her first book of poetry, The Last Thing Standing, was published by Mansfield Press (2000). A suite of poems from her latest poetry manuscript, Belonging, was broadcast on CBC Radio One’s Living Out Loud.

    • Belonging (an excerpt)

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • Edward Shorter

    Edward Shorter is professor of the history of medicine and professor of psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto. One of his recent books is Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2008). His latest book, Endocrine Psychiatry, co-authored with Max Fink, has just been published by Oxford.

    • Smart Bombs and Sex Robots

      A review of Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology As We Know It, by Peter Nowak

  • Peter Showler

    Peter Showler is the director of the Refugee Forum at the University of Ottawa and teaches refugee law at the university. He is the author of Refugee Sandwich: Stories of Exile and Asylum (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006).

    • The Migrant’s Quest

      A review of Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World, by Doug Saunders, and Citizens of Nowhere: From Refugee Camp to Canadian Campus, by Debi Goodwin

      Published in the April 2011 Issue.

  • Sandy Shreve

    Sandy Shreve’s most recent books are her poetry collection Suddenly, So Much (Exile Editions, 2005) and the anthology In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (co-edited with Kate Braid; Polestar/Raincoast Books, 2005). Her chapbook, Cedar Cottage Suite, is now available from Leaf Press.

  • David P. Silcox

    David P. Silcox is the president of Sotheby’s Canada and a senior fellow at Massey College.

    • Lost Opportunity

      A review of Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

  • Antanas Sileika

    Antanas Sileika’s 2004 novel, Woman in Bronze (Random House), was set in jazz-era Paris. His most recent novel, Underground, was released by Thomas Allen last spring. He is the director of the Humber School for Writers.

    • Book-Ending Canada's 20th Century

      A review of Stephen Leacock, by Margaret MacMillan, and Mordecai Richler, by M.G. Vassanji

      Published in the September 2009 Issue.

    • Imaginary Getaways

      Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

    • Dark Notes in Nazi Berlin

      A review of Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues

  • Ana Siljak

    Ana Siljak is a professor of Russian and East European history at Queen’s University. Her book Angel of Vengeance: The “Girl Assassin,” the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia’s Revolutionary World (St. Martin’s Press, 2008) was shortlisted for the Charles Taylor prize in 2009.

    • Can Sociology Save Us?

      A review of The Sense of Sociability: How People Overcome the Forces Pulling Them Apart, by Lorne Tepperman

      Published in the September 2010 Issue.

    • Adventure and Empathy

      A review of A Passion for History: Conversations with Denis Crouzet, by Natalie Zemon Davis.

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Jean-François Simard

    Jean-François Simard is a professor of social sciences and holds the Senghor Chair in Francophone Studies at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. He is a former minister in the Parti Québécois government of Bernard Landry. This article was translated from French by Jack Mitchell.

    • A Radical Shift

      Why have Quebec sovereigntists become so keen on Canada?

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

  • Ernest Sirluck

    Ernest Sirluck served overseas in the Canadian army during World War II, after which he taught English literature at the University of Toronto and the University of Chicago. He served as Dean of the Graduate School and Vice- President of the University of Toronto and later became President of the University of Manitoba.

    • The Diary of a Man Called God

      A review of The Diaries of Northrop Frye, 1942–1955, edited by Robert D. Denham

      Published in the September 2002 Issue.

  • Philip Slayton

    Philip Slayton’s latest book is Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life (Allen Lane, 2011).

    • George Parkin

      A review of Parkin: Canada’s Most Famous Forgotten Man, by William Christian

      Published in the October 2008 Issue.

    • Strange Bedfellows

      A review of Canadian Maverick: The Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand, by William Kaplan

    • The Elected and the Appointed: Round Two

      A review of Not Quite Supreme: The Courts and Coordinate Constitutional Interpretation, by Dennis Baker

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

    • Waves of Contempt

      A review of A Matter of Principle, by Conrad Black

  • Tom Slee

    Tom Slee is the author of No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice (Between the Lines, 2006). Once a theoretical chemist, he now works in the computer software industry and also blogs on technology and economics at http://whimsley.typepad.com.

    • Shopping ’Til We Drop

      A review of The Price of a Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization, by Gordon Laird

      Published in the November 2009 Issue.

    • A Caribbean Longshot

      A review of Internet Gambling Offshore: Caribbean Struggles over Casino Capitalism, by Andrew F. Cooper

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Patricia Smart

    Patricia Smart is the author of a number of books on Quebec literature and culture, including Les Femmes du Refus global (Boréal, 1998), which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award.

    • Quebec’s Abstract Radicals

      A review of The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941–1960, by Roald Nasgaard and Ray Ellenwood

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2010 Issue.

  • Ian Smillie

    Ian Smillie, an Ottawa-based development consultant and author, has written extensively about development and humanitarian assistance. His most recent book is Blood on the Stone: Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade (Anthem Press, 2010).

    • The Dove is Never Free

      A review of James Orbinski's An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century and Richard Heinzl's Cambodia Calling: A Memoir from the Frontlines of Humanitarian Aid

    • "Responsibilizing" the Poor

      A review of Suzan Ilcan and Anita Lacey's Governing the Poor: Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid.

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

    • A Brilliant Polemic

      A review of Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid, by Samantha Nutt

  • David E. Smith

    David E. Smith is co-editor (with John C. Courtney) of The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010) and author of Federalism and the Constitution of Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2010).

    • The Elected and the Appointed

      A review of The Politics of the Charter: The Illusive Promise of Constitutional Rights, by Andrew Petter

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

    • Whose Canada Is This?

      A review of The Strange Demise of British Canada: The Liberals and Canadian Nationalism, 1964–1968, by C.P. Champion

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

  • Denis Smith

    Denis Smith is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Western Ontario and, most recently, author of Ignatieff’s World Updated: Iggy Goes to Ottawa (Lorimer, 2009). He lives in Ottawa.

    • A Patient Prophet Speaks

      A review of Ken Dryden's Becoming Canada: Our Story, Our Politics, Our Future

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue.

  • Geoff Smith

    Geoff Smith taught courses in American history and sport sociology at Queen’s University for nearly 40 years. He was protocol officer in charge of the Soviet sailing delegation at the Montreal (Kingston) Olympics in 1976.

    • An Activist's Angry Disposition

      A review of Christopher A. Shaw’s Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

  • Norman Snider

    Norman Snider is a Canadian screenwriter whose films include Dead Ringers and Casino Jack. He teaches at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies.

  • Sam Solecki

    Sam Solecki lives in Toronto.

    • Singing the European Blues

      A review of Josef Škvorecký’s Ordinary Lives

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

    • O Brother, Where Art Thou?

      A review of Nox, by Anne Carson

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

  • Donald R. Songer

    Donald R. Songer is the Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. His book, The Transformation of the Supreme Court of Canada, was published by University of Toronto Press in 2008 and McGill-Queen’s University Press will publish Law, Ideology and Collegiality: Judicial Behaviour in the Supreme Court of Canada this fall.

    • The Nine

      A review of Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life, by Philip Slayton

      Published in the July/August 2011 Issue.

  • Neha Sonpar

    Neha Sonpar is an Edmonton poet and short story writer. Her writings explore the dilemmas and frustrations of Asian immigrants as they integrate into the Albertan mainstream culture. She is a member of the Canadian Authors Association and is part of the Strathcona Writing Circle.

  • Lorne Sossin

    Lorne Sossin teaches in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

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  • Ron Stang

    Ron Stang is a freelance writer and radio newsmagazine producer in Windsor, Ontario.

    • The Road to Hell

      A review of Larry Krotz's The Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa.

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

  • Carmine Starnino

    Carmine Starnino has published three books of poetry. His fourth, This Way Out, was recently published by Gaspereau Press. He lives in Montreal.

  • John Steffler

    John Steffler is Canada’s current poet laureate, who adopted Newfoundland as his home in 1974.

  • Janice Gross Stein

    Janice Gross Stein is Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at Trinity College in the University of Toronto.

  • Ricardo Sternberg

    Ricardo Sternberg is the author of three books of poetry. The four poems of “New Canaan” are part of a sequence called “The Monterey Songbook,” where they appear not necessarily in this order and without title.

  • William Stevenson

    William Stevenson was a Royal Navy fighter pilot in World War Two and later worked for Sir William Stephenson and wrote a book about him (A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War, originally published in 1976 and reissued by Lyons Press in 2009 with a foreword by Ronald Reagan). He has been a foreign correspondent in Russia, China, India and other parts of Asia and Africa, as well as the author of 16 books. He is currently working on his memoirs.

    • A Body in Uniform

      A review of Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat, by Denis Smyth

      Published in the September 2010 Issue.

  • Graham Stewart

    Graham Stewart is a former executive director of the John Howard Society of Canada.

    • Fear-Driven Policy

      Ottawa’s harsh new penal proposals won’t make us safer, just poorer—and less humane.

  • Sheila Stewart

    Sheila Stewart’s poetry collection, A Hat to Stop a Train, was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2003. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as The Antigonish Review, Descant, LRC, The Malahat Review and The New Quarterly.

  • Judy Stoffman

    Judy Stoffman is a Toronto writer who emigrated with her family from Hungary when she was a child.

    • Creating a Canadian Pantheon

      A review of Nellie McClung, by Charlotte Gray, and Emily Carr, by Lewis DeSoto

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

    • Studying Supper

      A review of What's to Eat? Entrées in Canadian Food History, edited by Nathalie Cooke

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2010 Issue.

    • Arrested Development

      A review of A.Y. Jackson: The Life of a Landscape Painter, by Wayne Larsen, and The Practice of Her Profession: Florence Carlyle, Canadian Painter in the Age of Impressionism, by Susan Butlin

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

    • Man in Locomotion

      A review of Marta Braun's Eadweard Muybridge.

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

    • Escape to Purgatory

      A review of The Free World, by David Bezmozgis

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • Beverley Stone

    Beverley Stone’s first novel, No Beautiful Shore, was published by Cormorant Books Inc. in 2008.

    • Avian Games

      A review of The Darren Effect, by Libby Creelman

      Published in the October 2008 Issue.

  • Cathy Stonehouse

    Cathy Stonehouse co-edited the non-fiction anthology Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008). Her debut collection of short fiction, Something About the Animal, is due out with Biblioasis this spring. Check out her website at .

    • Circling the Crime

      A review of Mary Swan’s The Boys in the Trees

      Published in the September 2008 Issue.

    • Sault Saga

      A review of Every Time We Say Goodbye, by Jamie Zeppa.

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Paul Stortz

    Paul Stortz is a professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary and editor of History of Intellectual Culture, available here.

    • Making a Multiversity

      A review of Michiel Horn’s The Way Must Be Tried: York University Remembered and John T. Saywell’s Someone to Teach Them: York and the Great University Explosion, 1960–1973

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

  • U. R. Sumaila

    U. Rashid Sumaila is director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia where he also directs the Fisheries Economics Research Unit.

    • The Value of the Seas

      A review of Alanna Mitchell's Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis.

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

  • James Supeene

    James Supeene is a student at the University of Waterloo and a regular online poker player with a small but positive stash.

    • A Caribbean Longshot

      A review of Internet Gambling Offshore: Caribbean Struggles over Casino Capitalism, by Andrew F. Cooper

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

  • Moez Surani

    Moez Surani’s poetry and short fiction have been published widely in Canada and abroad. His writing has won a number of awards, including the Antigonish Review’s poetry prize, the Kingston Literary Award and a Chalmers Arts Fellowship. He has published a chapbook, Cairo, and the poetry collection Reticent Bodies. His second poetry collection, Floating Life, will be published in spring 2012.

    • Nineteen Things I Know About Taona Kalunga

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

    • Bombay Morning

      Published in the July/August 2011 Issue.

  • Fraser Sutherland

    Fraser Sutherland is a poet, editor and sometime lexicographer who lives in Toronto.

    • A Response to James Pollock's Choosing the Best Canadian Poetry

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

  • S.L. Sutherland

    S.L. Sutherland is a long-time university professor and student of representative institutions (including ministerial responsibility), public administration and social science methodology. She is now at the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria. More information about her can be found at www.slsutherland.com.

    • Holding Court on Shaky Ground

      A review of Power: Where Is It?, by Donald J. Savoie

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

  • Todd Swift

    Todd Swift is an author, editor and academic with five collections of poems published, most recently Seaway: New and Selected Poems, from Salmon, Ireland. His recent book of critical essays on Anglo-Quebec poetry, Language Acts (co-edited with Jason Camlot), was a finalist for the 2007 Gabrielle Roy Prize.

    • Gentlemen of Nerve

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

  • Kevin Sylvester

    Kevin Sylvester is a broadcaster, writer and illustrator. He has worked on seven Olympic Games and has written two non-fiction books on sports. His children’s mystery novel, Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders, has just been released by Key Porter. He has two other titles due out in fall 2010: Splinters and Team Work.

    • Blaze of Glory

      A review of Off the Chain: An Insider’s History of Snowboarding, by Ross Rebagliati

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2010 Issue.

  • Shawn Syms

    Shawn Syms is a book critic and fiction writer in Toronto. His work has appeared in The Journey Prize Stories 21 (McClelland and Stewart, 2009), The Globe and Mail and more than 30 other publications.

    • Modern Love

      A review of Progress, by Michael V. Smith, Subtle Bodies: A Fantasia on Voice, History, and René Crevel, by Peter Dubé, and Pretty, by Greg Kearney

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  • Bruce Taylor

    Bruce Taylor’s fourth collection, No End in Strangeness, will be published by Cormorant in the spring of 2011. Two of his previous collections won the A.M. Klein Award for poetry in Quebec. He lives in Wakefield, Quebec, with his wife and three children.

    • Rebuilding the Guitar

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2011 Issue.

    • Checks in the Horn Timber, and a Hogged Sheer

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • Kate Taylor

    Kate Taylor, an arts journalist at The Globe and Mail, is the 2009 Atkinson Fellow for Public Policy, researching Canadian cultural sovereignty in the digital age. Her second novel, A Man in Uniform, will be published by Doubleday Canada in 2010.

    • Palace on the Rideau

      A review of Sarah Jennings' Art and Politics: The History of the National Arts Centre

  • Sarah Teitel

    Sarah Teitel lives, writes, paints and plays music in Toronto. She has recorded three albums and is at work on a first collection of poetry.

    • I Don’t Think I Need to Tell You

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

  • Robert Thacker

    Robert Thacker has been writing about Alice Munro since 1976. His critical biography, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2005. He is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York, near Ottawa.

  • Sonali Thakkar

    Sonali Thakkar is a former assistant editor of the LRC and a Trudeau Scholar. She is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where she studies post-colonial literature and memory.

    • Nous aussi nous souvenons

      A review of Ronald Rudin's, Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian's Journey Through Public Memory.

      Published in the July/August 2009 Issue.

  • Ramesh Thakur

    Ramesh Thakur is a professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. A member of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty and a former United Nations assistant secretary general, he is the author of The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and The Responsibility to Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics (London: Routledge, forthcoming). In 2011 he takes up a new position as professor of international relations at the Australian National University.

    • Intervention or Protection

      A review of Mobilizing the Will to Intervene: Leadership to Prevent Mass Atrocities, by Frank Chalk, Roméo Dallaire, Kyle Matthews, Carla Barqueiro and Simon Doyle.

      Published in the December 2010 Issue.

  • Madeleine Thien

    Madeleine Thien’s novel Certainty was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2006.

  • Joan Thomas

    Joan Thomas is the author of a new novel, Curiosity, published in March 2010.

  • Caitlin E. Thomson

    Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson has a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

  • Russell Thornton

    Russell Thornton is a West Coast poet whose collections include House Built of Rain (Harbour, 2003), shortlisted for the ReLit Poetry Award and the Dorothy Livesay B.C. Book Prize, and The Human Shore (Harbour, 2006). His poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009), A Verse Map of Vancouver (Anvil Press, 2009) and Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary B.C. Poetry (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2008). He won the League of Canadian Poets National Contest in 2000 and The Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry in 2009. More information is available at www.thornton999.blogspot.com.

  • Eva Tihanyi

    Eva Tihanyi is the author of five books of poetry, including Wresting the Grace of the World (Black Moss, 2005) and Restoring the Wickedness (Thistledown, 2000). She teaches at Niagara College in Welland, Ontario, and is a regular book reviewer for the National Post. She recently completed her first short story collection and is now contemplating a novel.

  • Michelle Tisseyre

    Michelle Tisseyre is a bilingual Quebec novelist and translator of fiction by English-speaking Canadian authors. Louis Riel, la fin d’un rêve, her translation of Rudy Wiebe’s The Scorched-Wood People, won the Governor General’s Award in 1985. She lives in Montreal.

    • Healing a Devastated Life

      A review of Lily in the Snow, by Yan Li

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

  • Anne Marie Todkill

    Anne Marie Todkill is a writer and editor who divides her time between inner-suburban Ottawa and so-called vacant land in North Hastings, Ontario.

    • Rocks and Hard Places

      A review of What They Wanted, by Donna Morrissey

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

    • Feral City

      A review of Fauna, by Alissa York.

      Published in the December 2010 Issue.

  • Florence Treadwell

    Florence Treadwell is a poet and photographer whose first book, Cleaving, a collection of poems and photographs, was published in 1999 by Ronsdale Press. It was followed in 2005 by Death Sentences (littlefishcartpress).

  • Yves Tremblay

    Yves Tremblay is a historian at the Department of National Defence in Ottawa. The views expressed here are his own.

    • Back from War

      What do we know about the mental health of returning soldiers?

  • Thomas Trofimuk

    Thomas Trofimuk’s most recent novel, Waiting for Columbus, was published in 2009.

  • Phoebe Tsang

    Phoebe Tsang was born in Hong Kong, educated in England and has lived in Canada since 1998. The author of Contents of a Mermaid’s Purse (Tightrope Books, 2009), she is currently at work on the libretto for an operetta commissioned by the Canadian Sinfonietta, exploring the myths of huli-jing, or fox spirits. A professional violinist, she also holds a degree in architecture from the University of London; for more about her, see http://phoebetsang.com.

    • Passion Dance

      Published in the May 2010 Issue.

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  • Georgiana Uhlyarik

    Georgiana Uhlyarik is assistant curator of Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her recent projects include Betty Goodwin: Work Notes and The Passion of Kathleen Munn. Originally from Romania, she lives in Toronto with her twin sons.

    • Canada on Canvas

      A review of Picturing the Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500–1950, by Marylin J. McKay

      Published in the November 2011 Issue.

  • Priscila Uppal

    Priscila Uppal is a poet, short story writer, novelist and professor of humanities and English at York University. Her latest book of poetry, Ontological Necessities, was shortlisted for the 2007 Griffin Prize. Her work has been translated into several languages.

  • Alex Usher

    Alex Usher is president of Higher Education Strategy Associates, a consultancy based in Toronto.

    • Campus Navel Gazing

      A review of James Côté's and Anton Allahar's Ivory Tower Blues: A University System in Crisis and George Fallis' Multiversities, Ideas and Democracy

    • Courting Foreign Students

      A review of Canada’s Universities Go Global, edited by Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Glen A. Jones and Adrian Shubert, and The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World, by Ben Wildavsky

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

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  • Fred Vallance-Jones

    Fred Vallance-Jones is assistant professor of journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax and co-author of Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter’s Research Guide (2006) and Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Comprehensive Primer (2009), both from Oxford University Press.

    • Getting the Real Story

      A review of Cecil Rosner’s Behind the Headlines: A History of Investigative Journalism in Canada

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

  • Michael Valpy

    Michael Valpy is a journalist with The Globe and Mail and lectures on media at they University of Toronto.

    • The Noisy Christian Right

      A review of Michael Wagner's Standing on Guard for Thee: The Past, Present and Future of Canada’s Christian Right

    • Dogma's Bulldog

      A review of Michael Coren's Why Catholics Are Right.

    • Finding Our Reflection

      A review of The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History, by R. Douglas Francis

      Published in the September 2011 Issue.

  • Margaret Visser

    Margaret Visser is a Canadian broadcaster and lecturer, and the author of six books. She lives in Canada and in France.

    • A Millennium of Manners

      A review of Benet Davetian’s Civility: A Cultural History

      Published in the October 2009 Issue.

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  • Christopher Waddell

    Christopher Waddell is associate director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication and holds the Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism. He is a former CBC TV parliamentary bureau chief and executive producer of news specials, and prior to that was a reporter, Ottawa bureau chief, associate editor and national editor of The Globe and Mail.

    • Inside the Wire

      A review of Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants, edited by Kevin Patterson and Jane Warren; Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford; Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point in Canada’s Afghan Mission by Lee Windsor, David Charters and Brent Wilson; On Assignment in Afghanistan: Maritimers at War by Chris Lambie (text) and Christian Laforce (photography); Contact Charlie: The Canadian Army, the Taliban and the Battle That Saved Afghanistan by Chris Wattie; and The Long Walk Home: Paul Franklin’s Journey from Afghanistan by Liane Faulder

  • Fred Wah

    Fred Wah has published many books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, from Lardeau (Island Press, 1965) to his latest poetry collection, is a door (Talonbooks, 2009). Waiting for Saskatchewan (Turnstone Books, 1985) received the 1986 Governor General’s Award and Diamond Grill (NeWest, 1995) won the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction in 1996. The False Laws of Narrative (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009) has been edited for the Laurier Poetry Series by Louis Cabri. Fred was the LRC’s poetry editor from 2003 to 2005.

  • Myna Wallin

    Myna Wallin is a poet, prose writer, editor and host of In Other Words on CKLN 88.1 FM, where she interviews authors from across Canada. Her first full-length collection of poetry, A Thousand Profane Pieces, was published by Tightrope Books in 2006. She also co-hosts the Art Bar Poetry Reading Series, co-organizes the Toronto Small Press Book Fair and has recently become poetry editor of Tightrope Books.

  • David Waltner-Toews

    David Waltner-Toews is a professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the Ontario Veterinary College in the University of Guelph, founding president of Veterinarians without Borders Canada and a founding member of the Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health. He is a specialist in the epidemiology of zoonoses and the author of The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases that Jump from Animals to Humans (Greystone, 2007).

    • Parsing Pandemics

      A review of Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894–1901, by Myron Echenberg, and SARS Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada, by Michael G. Tyshenko, with assistance from Cathy Paterson

      Published in the October 2010 Issue.

    • A Very Modern Pandemic

      A review of The Origins of AIDS, by Jacques Pepin

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue.

  • Nichola Ward

    Nichola (Nicki) Ward is a writer and performance poet living in Toronto. Her performance work combines formal poetry with contemporary staging. Similarly, she experiments with fusing new media with traditional poetry and much of this work can be seen at http://NicholaWard.com.

    • Make It New

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

  • Wesley Wark

    Wesley Wark is a professor at the University of Toronto and a visiting research professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He is completing a study of Canadian national security policy, It Can’t Happen Here.

  • Patrick Watson

    Patrick Watson began his broadcasting career in 1943. As creative director of the Historica Foundation, he developed The Heritage Minutes. He has published 14 books, including four novels. His newest book is a series of sketches of history and historical figures, in comic verse, entitled Finn’s Thin Book of Irish Ironies, illustrated by Aislin and published on St. Patrick’s Day 2010 by McArthur and Company.

    • The Flat Rock Light 1997

      Published in the March 2010 Issue.

    • Imaginary Getaways

      Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

  • William Watson

    William Watson teaches economics at McGill University and writes columns for the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and the Financial Post

    • The Continental Quickstep

      A review of Stephen Clarkson’s Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent after NAFTA and 9/11

      Published in the April 2009 Issue.

  • Tom Wayman

    Tom Wayman’s first novel, Woodstock Rising (Dundurn Press), appeared in 2009 and a critical monograph, Songs Without Price: The Music of Poetry in a Discordant World (Institute for Coastal Research), in 2008. A new collection of poems, Dirty Snow, will be published in 2012.

    • Calling the Season Home

      Published in the September 2008 Issue.

    • The Uniqueness of the Dark

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

    • Fable of the Child Who Went into the Mountain

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

    • Bear Habitat in The New Yorker

      Published in the September 2011 Issue.

  • Adele Weder

    Adele Weder is a Vancouver-based arts writer and curator, and the recipient of the 2011 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada President’s Award for Architectural Journalism.

  • Paul Weinberg

    Paul Weinberg is a veteran freelance writer who edited a union-leaning publication, Labour Times, for CLB Media, during the first half of the 1990s. He now writes regularly for NOW Magazine.

    • Stickin’ with the Union

      A review of One Day Longer: A Memoir, by Lynn Williams

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Daniel Marc Weinstock

    Daniel Marc Weinstock holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal.

    • Freedom Redefined

      A review of Public Philosophy in a New Key, Volume 1: Democracy and Civic Freedom and Volume 2: Imperialism and Civic Freedom, by James Tully

      Published in the November 2009 Issue.

  • Paul Wells

    Paul Wells is the senior columnist for Maclean’s magazine and a former columnist for the National Post. He is working on a book about the Harper government and chairs the weekly Tuesday meeting of the Ottawa media conspiracy.

    • We’re Still Watching

      A review of Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–2000, by John English

    • I'm Right, You're Wrong

      A review of Among the Truthers: A Journey into the Growing Conspiracist Underground of 9/11 Truthers, Birthers, Armageddonites, Vaccine Hysterics, Hollywood Know-Nothings and Internet Addicts, by Jonathan Kay

  • Jennifer Welsh

    Jennifer Welsh is a professor of international relations at the University of Oxford and co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.

  • Grace Westcott

    Grace Westcott is a practicing copyright lawyer, Vice Chair of the Canadian Copyright Institute, and a fan of fiction.

  • Anthony Westell

    Anthony Westell is a retired journalist and a former editor of the LRC.

    • How the Media Promote White Supremacy

      A review of Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian English-Language Press, by Frances Henry and Carol Tator

      Published in the September 2002 Issue.

    • The Life of a Great Man

      A review of Lester B. Pearson, by Andrew Cohen

      Published in the Jan/Feb 2009 Issue.

    • Avoiding Extremes

      A review of Hugh Segal's The Right Balance: Canada's Conservative Tradition.

      Published in the June 2011 Issue.

    • A Wonderful Pipedream

      A review of Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL, by Roger L. Martin

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Reg Whitaker

    Reg Whitaker was a tenured white male professor of political science who did his bit to open up the faculty to greater diversity by retiring early.

    • What's Wrong With Canadian Universities

      A selection by Contributing Editor Anthony Westell, originally published in the LRC's September 2002 issue.

    • Routing Tokenism

      A review of Anthony Stewart's You Must Be a Basketball Player: Rethinking Integration In the University

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

  • Jerry White

    Jerry White is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

    • Two Windows on the Arctic

      A review of Gretel Ehrlich’s This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland and Pierre Perrault’s Le Mal du Nord

      Published in the September 2002 Issue.

  • Ewan Whyte

    Ewan Whyte is a writer and translator. His short stories, poetry, translations, reviews and essays have been published in literary journals and magazines. His translation of the poetry of Catullus was published in 2004. He recently completed a book of poetry and is finishing a memoir about his early life in extreme religious cults in the U.S. and Canada.

  • Charles Wilkins

    Charles Wilkins has occasionally been accused of domestic piracy. His memoir In the Land of Long Fingernails (Viking, 2008) was a finalist for the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, for Ontario’s Trillium Award and is currently a finalist for the Toronto Book Award.

    • Compromised Eden

      A review of The Darien Gap: Travels in the Rainforest of Panama, by Martin Mitchinson

      Published in the December 2008 Issue.

    • Poles Never Play Cricket in Summer

      A review of Angus Bell's Batting on the Bosphorus: A Liquor-Fueled Cricket Tour through Eastern Europe

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

    • Deromanticizing Swashbucklers

      A review of Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern-Day Pirates, by Daniel Sekulich

      Published in the October 2009 Issue.

  • Carl Wilson

    Carl Wilson is the author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (33 1/3 Series, Continuum Books), a book about class aesthetics, democracy, and Céline Dion. He lives in Toronto, where he works at The Globe and Mail and as doorman of the Trampoline Hall Lecture Series. For more on Carl's writing and projects, visit www.zoilus.com.

    • A Middling Marvel

      A review of Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown by Chris McDonald

  • Carleton Wilson

    Carleton Wilson is a poet and the publisher and general editor of Junction Books. He was awarded the E.J. Pratt Medal in Poetry in 1998 for Junction Sonnets. “Coughing Blood” is taken from the chapbook Eight Poems (Junction Books, 2002).

  • Keith Wilson

    Keith Wilson is a professor of English at the University of Ottawa. His most recent book is the edited collection A Companion to Thomas Hardy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

    • The Burden of Isolation

      A review of John Stape’s The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad

    • Talent and Self-Destruction

      A review of The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey, by Robert Morrison

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

  • Paul Wilson

    Paul Wilson is a writer living in The Town of the Blue Mountains, in Ontario. His most recent publication is a translation of Josef Skvorecky’s novel, Ordinary Lives (Key Porter, 2008).

    • Arcadia in Peril

      A review of The Weekender Effect: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns, by Robert William Sandford

      Published in the March 2009 Issue.

  • Robert Charles Wilson

    Robert Charles Wilson is the author of more than a dozen novels of speculative fiction. His novel Spin (Tor Books, 2005) received the Hugo Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, the German Kurd Lasswitz Prize and the Japanese Seiun Award. His latest novel is Vortex (Tor Books, 2011).

    • A Dystopia Sketched in Crayon

      A review of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood

    • Bruno's Brilliant Heresy

      A review of Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System, by Ray Jayawardhana

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

    • Imaginary Getaways

      Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

  • Garrett Wilson, Q.C.

    Garrett Wilson, a retired Regina lawyer, is the author of four books including Deny, Deny, Deny: The Rise and Fall of Colin Thatcher (James Lorimer, 1985) and the award-winning history Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West (Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2007).

    • Crime and Punishment

      A review of Robert Latimer: A Story of Justice and Mercy, by Gary Bauslaugh

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • Hugh Winsor

    Hugh Winsor is a life member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and a longtime columnist in Ottawa and at Ontario’s Queen’s Park for The Globe and Mail. He has shared office space and airtime with Craig Oliver and was only an impressionable cub reporter when Allan Fotheringham began making waves in Canadian journalism.

    • Golden Boys

      A review of Oliver’s Twist: The Life and Times of an Unapologetic Newshound, by Craig Oliver, and Boy from Nowhere: A Life in Ninety-One Countries, by Allan Fotheringham

      Published in the December 2011 Issue.

  • Elana Wolff

    Elana Wolff has published three books of poetry with Guernica Editions: Birdheart (2001), Mask (2003), and You Speak to Me in trees (2006) - winner of the 2008 F.G. Bressant Prize for Poetry. She is also a co-author, with the late Malca Litovitz, of Slow Dancing: Creativity and Illness, Duologue and Rengas (Guernica, 2008). Wolff has also taught English as a second language at York University and English for academic purposes at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; she now divides her time among editing, writing and facilitating therapeutic art.

    • Here or There

      Published in the May 2009 Issue.

  • Patrick Woodcock

    Patrick Woodcock was the poetry editor for the LRC from 2002 to 2003. His last book of poetry, Always Die Before Your Mother (ECW Press, 2009), was shortlisted for Canada’s Relit award. His new book, Echo Gods and Silent Mountains (ECW Press, 2012), is the first book to come out of his two-year stay in the Kurdish North of Iraq.

  • Charles J. Wright

    Dr. Charles J. Wright is a healthcare consultant based in Toronto. From 1999 to 2007 he was Scientific Officer of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, after a career in surgery, teaching, research and administration at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia.

  • Eric Wright

    Eric Wright has lived as a student, teacher and writer in three provinces. One of his novels, Moodie’s Tale (Key Porter, 2002), is about a young Englishman in the Canadian bush.

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  • Joel Yanofsky

    Joel Yanofsky is a Montreal writer. His memoir, Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism, is due out in April from Penguin.

    • A Mensch for All Seasons

      A review of The Frumkiss Family Business, by Michael Wex

      Published in the March 2011 Issue.

  • Lisa Young

    Lisa Young teaches Political Science at the University of Calgary.

  • Patricia Young

    Patricia Young has published nine books of poetry and one of short fiction. In 2010 Sono Nis Press will publish a new collection of poetry, An Auto-erotic History of Swings.

  • Changming Yuan

    Changming Yuan authored several books before emigrating from China and currently teaches writing in Vancouver. His poems appear in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, the Literary Review of Canada and more than 300 other literary publications worldwide. His collection Chansons of a Chinaman (Leaf Garden Press) and monograph Politics and Poetics: A Comparative Study of John Keats and Li He (LAP Lambert Academic Publishing) were both released in 2009. Yuan has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

    • East Idioms

      Published in the June 2009 Issue.

    • Word Fashion: Another Politically Correct Poem

      Published in the November 2010 Issue.

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  • Stephen Zeifman

    Stephen Zeifman is the author of The Family Man (Exile Editions, 1998), The Good Friend (Exile Editions, 2000) and The Ben Calder Story (Exile Editions, 2005), three novels composing “The Toronto Trilogy.” Peripheral Vision (Exile Editions, 2002), a novella, stands off to one side. His poetry has appeared in a number of journals and he has performed spoken word live in Toronto and Upper Amherst Cove.

    • Prepping for Privilege

      A review of The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School, by Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández

      Published in the November 2009 Issue.

    • The Wind

      Published in the July/August 2010 Issue.

  • Jamie Zeppa

    Jamie Zeppa is the author of Beyond the Sky and the Earth (Doubleday, 2000), a memoir of falling in love in and with Bhutan. She teaches English at Seneca College in Toronto.

    • The Personal and Political Entwined

      A review of Karen Connelly's Burmese Lessons: A Love Story

      Published in the October 2009 Issue.

  • David Zieroth

    David Zieroth’s eighth book of poetry, The Fly in Autumn (Harbour Publishing, 2009), won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2009. He also published a chapbook, Berlin Album, (Rubicon Press, 2009). In 2008 he founded the Alfred Gustav Press, a micro press for publishing poetry. He lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia. For more information visit http://www.davidzieroth.com.

    • The Night Howler

      Published in the April 2010 Issue.

    • Rats / Spider in the Bathroom

      Published in the June 2010 Issue.

    • Each Spring

      Published in the May 2011 Issue.

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