The Literary Review of Canada

Magazine Issue ›› March 2006

• Contents

In the March 2006 Issue

• The LRC 100 (Part Two)

  A special feature

• Has Canada Failed?

  An essay

  Michael Bliss

• Our Favourite Martian

  A review of Beethoven’s Mask: Notes on My Life and Times, by George Jonas

  John Fraser

• Indentured Servitude

  A review of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of “Migrant Workers” in Canada, by Nandita Sharma

  Judith Ramirez

• The Borderline between Fact and Fabrication

  A review of Afterlands, by Steven Heighton

  Steven Hayward

• Penelope with Attitude

  A review of The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus, by Margaret Atwood

  Eric Ormsby

• How to Wage War Legally

  A review of War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict, by Michael Byers

  Erna Paris

• A Bomb in a Parachute

  A review of The Parachute, by Sinclair Dumontais, translated by Patricia Claxton

  David Dunne

• Shifting Holy Ground

  A review of Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint-Making, by Michael W. Higgins

  Gregory Baum

• The Ambivalent Imperialist

  A review of Woolf in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904–1911, by Christopher Ondaatje

  Ken McGoogan

• Advancing the Values Debate

  A review of Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States, by Edward Grabb and James Curtis, and American Backlash: The Untold Story of Social Change in the United States, by Michael Adams

  Jason Bristow

• Reprography

  A poem

  Bruce Meyer

• Santa Trinità Bridge, Florence

  A poem

  Rachel Vigier

• Shoes

  A poem

  Rachel Vigier

• Letters & Responses

  Chris Phillips, Leo J. Deveau, Dee-Dee Staples-Payne, Sean Henry, Robert Mccosh, Grant Coughlin, Bert Struik, Robert Crewe, Jay Wilson, Christopher McMillan, Julie Schott, Chuck Davis, David J. Hall, Jocelyn Downie, Anthony Westell, John T. Pepall, Mark Proudman, Paul Knox

• Pictures throughout the issue by Kevin Sylvester

  Kevin Sylvester is an author, illustrator, and CBC sportscaster and host who lives in Toronto. His new book, Sports Hall of Weird, was published by KidsCan Press in 2005, and his old book, Shadrin Has Scored for Russia, is available from him directly at ksylvester@sympatico.ca.

• LRC 100 portraits by Wes Tyrell

  Wes Tyrell is a caricature artist and humorous illustrator. His works can be seen in a variety of publications, including The Globe and Mail and Maclean’s, as well as at www.westyrell.com.