Magazine Issue ›› April 2006
In the April 2006 Issue
Not So Fast, Reformers
An essay
Lots of Sex, Please, We’re Humans
A review of Edward Shorter’s Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire
Plus ça change
A review of The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations, by Adam Chapnick
Size Matters
A review of The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives, by Ted Sargent
The Judges and the Media
A review of The Last Word: Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada, by Florian Sauvageau, David Schneiderman and David Taras
Mystery in the Tropics
A review of Dead Man in Paradise, by J.B. MacKinnon
Dazzling and Disappointing
A review of The Walking Boy, by Lydia Kwa
Surviving the Commune
A review of Katrina Onstad’s How Happy to Be
The Carrot and the Stick
A review of Responding to Youth Crime in Canada, by Anthony N. Doob and Carla Cesaroni
Wood, Glass and Stone
A review of Up North: Where Canada’s Architecture Meets the Land, by Lisa Rochon
An Incendiary Tale
A review of The Hanging of Angélique: Canada, Slavery and the Burning of Montreal, by Afua Cooper
A Literary Horserace
A review of Running the Rapids: A Writer’s Life, by Kildare Dobbs
The Hapless Hunt for Paradise Lost
A review of David F. Noble’s Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
A review of Friendly Fire: The Untold Story of the U.S. Bombing that Killed Four Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan, by Michael Friscolanti
To Go to Huangshan (The Yellow Mountains)
A poem
Lupins: Canada Day 2002
A poem
Voyage
A poem
Letters & Responses
Michael Adams, Alan Twigg, Patrick Watson, Sam DiFalco, Ian Montagnes, Lawrence Wardroper
Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Cinders McLeod
Cinders McLeod studied art, performance, filmmaking and television in England. She played doublebass and sang in a band that toured Britain and Europe for five years, cartooned for British newspapers for ten and moved back to Toronto with her Glaswegian family five years ago. She has cartooned and designed for The Globe and Mail ever since.
Online Originals
Lincoln’s Prophet
A review of George Fetherling's Walt Whitman’s Secret: A Novel
Untying the Knot
A review of A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott
The Winter of a Hundred Books
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