The Literary Review of Canada

Magazine Issue ›› December 2006

• Contents

In the December 2006 Issue

• Solidifying Gains

  A review of Hugh Segal’s The Long Road Back: The Conservative Journey, 1993–2006

  Tom Flanagan

• The Nowhere Men and Women

  A review of Refugee Sandwich: Stories of Exile and Asylum, by Peter Showler

  Marina Jimenez

• “Big Media Bad Thing”

  An essay

  Christopher Dornan

• Loaded Assumptions

  A review of No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice, by Tom Slee

  David Dunne

• A Rare Gift for Leadership and Friendship

  A review of Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One 1919–1968, by John English, and The Teeth of Time: Remembering Pierre Elliott Trudeau, by Ramsay Cook

  John Roberts

• Trudeau: Long March/Shining Path

  An excerpt from a libretto

  George Elliott Clarke

• Sparring Cultures

  A review of Randy Boyagoda’s Governor of the Northern Province

  Esi Edugyan

• The Permeable Border

  A review of Rockefeller, Carnegie and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada, by Jeffrey D. Brison

  Maria Tippett

• Who Really Destroyed The Twin Towers?

  A review of Barrie Zwicker’s Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11

  Peter Desbarats

• Our Man in London

  A review of Commissions High: Canada in London, 1870–1971, by Roy MacLaren

  Martin Laflamme

• A Sister’s Sad Burden

  A review of Marian Botsford Fraser’s Requiem for My Brother

  Erika Ritter

• One City, Two Nations

  A review of Dimensions of Inequality in Canada, edited by David A. Green and Jonathan R. Kesselman

  Tony Penikett

• Small Mirror, Large Landscape

  A review of Eric Koch’s I Remember The Location Exactly

  Vivian Rakoff

• A Cross-Country Canon

  A review of Noah Richler’s This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada

  Alma Lee

• Mort d’un vieux Québécois

  A review of Gil Courtemanche’s A Good Death

  Norman Ravvin

• That’s It in a Hazelnut Upstairs at the Dickinson’s

  Poems

  Joanne Page

• “Grey and Silver: Mist—Lifeboat”

  A poem

  Julie Roorda

• Responses & Letters

  Tim Inkster, Joel Lexchin

• Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Aino Anto

  Aino Anto is a Toronto-based freelance illustrator with interests in editorial illustration and children’s books. Her first work, Len Gasparini’s A Christmas for Carol, was published by Seraphim Editions in 2002. More examples of her work can be seen at www.antostudio.com.