The Literary Review of Canada

Magazine Issue ›› November 2006

• Contents

In the November 2006 Issue

• Are Interests Really Value Free?

  A review of Dreamland: How Canada's Pretend Foreign Policy Has Undermined Sovereignty, by Roy Rempel

  Jennifer Welsh

• Is Small Beautiful?

  An essay

  Peter S. Grant

• Dry Ice

  A review of Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture and Commerce, edited by David Whitson and Richard Gruneau

  Stephen Cole

• From Propaganda to Scholarship

  A review of Clio’s Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars, by Tim Cook

  Roger Hall

• Ms. Clarkson’s Revenge

  A review of Adrienne Clarkson’s Heart Matters

  Michael Valpy

• A Vanished Community

  A review of Stephen Kimber’s Reparations

  James W. St.G. Walker

• Departing from the Script

  A review of Trevor Cole’s The Fearsome Particles

  Val Ross

• The Gamble That Failed

  A review of Martine Tremblay’s Derrière les portes closes: René Lévesque et l’exercice du pouvoir (1976–1985) and Pierre Godin’s René Lévesque: L’homme brisé (1980–1987)

  Graham Fraser

• Last Bastion of Dirigisme?

  A review of Public Science, Private Interests: Culture and Commerce in Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence, by Janet Atkinson-Grosjean

  Keith Banting

• The Erosion of Public Goods

  A review of William A. Bogart’s Good Government? Good Citizens? Courts, Politics and Markets in a Changing Canada

  Stephen LeDrew

• Trudeau’s Great Leap

  A review of Hongse Zhongguo de Liangwei Tianzhenhan (Two Innocents in Red China), by Jacques Hébert and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, foreword by Alexandre Trudeau, translated by Yuan Xiaoyi and Xia Ling

  David Curtis Wright

• Five-and-dime Queen

  A poem

  Rishma Dunlop

• Small

  A poem

  Rosemary Clewes

• The Careful Mourner Modelling to Scale

  Poems

  Brian Wickers

• Red Painting Shirt (Vaughn Neville)

  A poem

  Cornelia Hoogland

• Letters & Responses

  Michael Walker, Thomas Kierans, Seth Klein, Ken Battle and Sherri Torjman, Thomas Axworthy, Ed Morgan, John Richards, Joanna Harrington, Michael Milde and Richard Vernon, Joseph Heath

• Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Andrew Stevenson

  Andrew Stevenson is a Toronto illustrator whose portfolio is available online at www.squidgystudios.com.