Inside the Jan/Feb 2012 Issue
Does the Past Have a Future?
It turns out h-i-s-t-o-r-y can be spelled many different ways.
Waves of Contempt
A review of A Matter of Principle, by Conrad Black
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
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Editor's Note
Also in this Issue:
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A Very Modern Pandemic
A review of The Origins of AIDS, by Jacques Pepin
The New Bogeymen
A review of Gangland: The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels From El Paso to Vancouver, by Jerry Langton
Artistic Autocrat
A review of The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca, by Carol Bishop-Gwyn
Monday Morning
Terrorist
Lead
Ship's Prow Is the Cubist Slate They Call a Face
Endearing Assassins
A review of Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers
Dubai Glitz to Hardware Retail
A review of David Penhale's Passing Through
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
Up in the Air
A review of Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb, edited by Janice Gross Stein
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
The Ties that Bind
A review of Rebecca Kingston's Public Passion: Rethinking the Grounds for Political Justice
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
Full Steam Ahead?
A review of The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy, by Chris Turner
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Letters and Responses
Ken Greenberg, Allan Fotheringham, David Berlin, William Marsden, Susan Felsberg
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Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Ryan Dodgson.
Born in Hong Kong in 1984, Ryan Dodgson has in recent years been living and working across from various chocolate factories in Toronto. His work has won a number of awards and appeared in Eye Weekly, McSweeney’s, The Believer and The New York Times among other publications. He is currently at work on a book-and-record set with musician/friend Moshe Rozenberg.
Online Originals
Back from War
What do we know about the mental health of returning soldiers?
The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus
On the westward shift of Canadian power - and values.
Writers in Exile: What Shuts Them Up?
Authors fleeing persecution today are haunted not just by memories, but the ongoing threat of reprisal.
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