The Literary Review of Canada

Essays

• Here, Now

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

  Stephen Marche

• The Climate Change Olympics

  Perhaps some healthy provincial competition can get Canada moving.

  Mark Jaccard

• Fear-Driven Policy

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

  Michael Jackson and Graham Stewart

• The Winter of a Hundred Books

  Brendan de Caires

• The Calamity of Caledonia

  What B.C. can teach Ontario about Native land claims.

  Christopher Moore

• Flying Naked Next

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

  Brian Flemming

• Identity Crisis

  But for the Liberals, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

  Andrew Potter

• Poet’s Corner

  Dispatches from the Winter Games

  Priscila Uppal

• A Shameful Track Record

  The Olympic movement plays fast and loose with basic democratic values.

  Laura Robinson

• Our Healthiest Industry?

  Organized crime is flourishing in Canada, just as it always has.

  Stephen Schneider

• Genocide or "A Vast Tragedy"?

  University students in an Alberta classroom try to decide.

  Myrna Kostash

• Rewiring Our Future

  Fighting climate change with electric power

  Robert Evans

• Too Much Health Care

  We can’t afford life’s creeping medicalization.

  Charles J. Wright

• Between Euphoria and Fear

  Has traditional microeconomics ignored the mood swings that drive financial crises?

  Janice Gross Stein

• Listen to the North

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

  John Ralston Saul

• Did the Banks Go Crazy?

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

  Joseph Heath

• Reviewing Reviewing Today

  “No customer reviews yet. Be the first.” (Amazon.com)

  Linda Hutcheon

• The Ugly Canadian

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

  Amir Attaran

• Anyone for Deficits?

  A short history of the D-word in Canada’s development.

  Timothy Lewis

• Return to Grassy Narrows

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

  Bob Rodgers

• Help Wanted: Leader of the Free World

  Can Obama fill the bill or have we all moved on?

  Jennifer Welsh

• Canada’s Homeless Portrait Gallery

  A historic collection falls victim to economic and intellectual uncertainty.

  Charlotte Gray

• Our Canadian Republic

  Do we display too much deference to authority ... or not enough?

  Christopher Moore

• History Does Matter

  The future of the past in Atlantic Canada.

  Margaret Conrad

• An Outsider's Eye

  Newfoundland culture as defined from without and within.

  Noreen Golfman

• American Distractions

  Canada’s best hope for change lies in our own traditions.

  John Robson

• Progressivism's End

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

  David Eaves and Taylor Owen

• Positive-Sum Politics

  Beyond entrenched divisions in the United States and Canada.

  Andrew Ng

• A Steady Eye

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

  Brian Gable

• Fatal Attraction

  The CBC’s Richard Stursberg and his romance with ratings.

  Wade Rowland

• Friction over Fan Fiction

  Is this burgeoning art form legal?

  Grace Westcott

• Does Independence Matter?

  From Elections Canada to the nuclear watchdog, the Harper government seems to disagree.

• Olympic Dreams and Fairy Tales

  How will Canada’s Olympians acquit themselves in Beijing?

  Douglas Brown

• The Prison of "Public Space"

  Before we take to the streets, this pervasive concept needs rethinking.

  Mark Kingwell

• A History of Hypocrisy

  Canadian complicity links U.S. Cold War torture with cases like Maher Arar’s.

  Regan Boychuk

• Constabulary Duties

  When did the phrase “to serve and protect” begin to ring so hollow?

  Paul F. McKenna

• Our Man in Bhutan

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

  David M. Malone

• In the Garden with the Guru

  Adventures with Marshall McLuhan

  Bob Rodgers

• Conrad Black: A Scribe’s Progress

  George Galt

• Canada's Candide

  While Calgary wants to govern, Vancouver cultivates its garden.

  John Richards

• A Province Poised for Leadership

  Gifted with resources, Alberta moves toward centre stage.

  Roderick Fraser

• Demography in the Balance

  Is Native population growth on the prairies a positive or negative thing?

  Warren Cariou

• The Trial Coverage on Trial

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

  Suanne Kelman

• Teenage Mutant Supreme Court Judges

  The Canadian copyright debate takes some strange metaphysical turns.

  Christopher Moore

• 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.

  Shiraz Dossa