The Literary Review of Canada

Magazine Issue ›› July/August 2006

• Contents

In the July/August 2006 Issue

• “So Deep, So Vicious, So Brutal”

  A review of The Colour of Justice: Policing Race in Canada, by David M. Tanovich

  Royson James

• Prophets of an Unknown Future

  A review of Terry Glavin’s Waiting for the Macaws and Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions and Wayne Grady’s Bringing Back the Dodo: Lessons in Natural and Unnatural History

  Alanna Mitchell

• TV “R” Us

  A review of Two Aspirins and a Comedy: How Television Can Enhance Health and Society, by Metta Spencer

  John Doyle

• Referencing Canadian Lives

  A review of Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XV (1921–1930), edited by Ramsay Cook and Réal Bélanger

  Fraser Sutherland

• Publisher, Poetry Lover, Pilot

  A review of Scott Griffin’s My Heart Is Africa: A Flying Adventure

  Marian Botsford Fraser

• Living by the Polls

  A review of The Role of Public Opinion Research in Canadian Government, by Christopher Page

  Christopher Waddell

• Searching for Self

  A review of Scotch River, by Linda Little, and Matters of Hart, by Marianne Ackerman

  Patricia Pearson

• Nudge, Wink ... and Yawn

  A review of Trudy J. Morgan-Cole’s The Violent Friendship of Esther Johnson

  Keith Wilson

• Pot Pourri

  A review of Not This Time: Canadians, Public Policy and the Marijuana Question, 1961–1975, by Marcel Martel, and Bud Inc.: Inside Canada’s Marijuana Industry, by Ian Mulgrew

  Philip Slayton

• Women and the West

  A review of Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History, edited by Sarah Carter, Lesley Erickson, Patricia Roome and Char Smith

  Katherine Govier

• Intertwined Histories

  A review of Who Named The Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory, by Linda Spalding

  Susan Musgrave

• The Forbidden Experiment

  A review of Adriana S. Benzaquén’s Encounters with Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature

  Rebecca Saxe

• Let Me Tell You My Life

  An essay

  Carolyne Van Der Meer

• The Well Hush Better Homes

  Poems

  Halli Villegas

• Marriage Song

  A poem

  Carla Drysdale

• [Untitled #1] [Untitled #2]

  Poems

  George Fetherling

• Letters and Responses

  James Laxer, Herbert Grubel, David Laidler, Colin Carter, Derek Berwald and Al Loyns, Ingeborg Boyens, Erna Paris, Rosie DiManno, Ray Conlogue, Mark Jaccard

• Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Lorenz Peter

  Lorenz Peter is a comic artist living in Toronto. He has two graphic novels published by Pedlar Press and his work has appeared in numerous underground and cult magazines since 1993. Visit www.SideEffect.ca or contact lorenz@sideeffect.ca.