Magazine Issue ›› March 2007
In the March 2007 Issue
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Happy Birthday, C.C.!
A special feature
Conventional Wisdoms
An essay
Still Controversial, Sixty Years On
A review of Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon, edited by Ian M. Thom, Charles C. Hill and Johanne Lamoureux
Red-Tinted Yiddish
A review of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939, by Anna Shternshis
Nuclear Sales and Service
A review of Duane Bratt’s The Politics of Candu Exports
Diaspora Voices
A review of TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 1, edited by Helen Walsh
The Kyoto Debate Continues
A review of George Monbiot’s Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, plus letters
Mixing Memory with Desire
A review of Michael Redhill’s Consolation
Pop Goes the Apocalypse
A review of Dead Man’s Float, by Nicholas Maes
The Oxford Don on the Potomac
A review of The Washington Diaries, 1981–1989, by Allan Gotlieb
Front-Row Seat in Moscow
A review of Janice Cowan’s A Spy’s Wife: The Moscow Memoirs of a Canadian Who Witnessed the End of the Cold War
Transformations, Eh?
A review of The Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945–71, by José E. Igartua, and Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada, by Franca Iacovetta
Playing the Monument Game
A review of Joan Coutu’s Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Demolishing a Stereotype
A review of Nobody’s Mother: Life without Kids, edited by Lynne Van Luven
Book Lover’s Paradise
A review of The Library at Night, by Alberto Manguel
Single Sock
A poem
On a Drawing by Paul Young
A poem
Earrings
A poem
The Blanket
A poem
The Bride Muses the Might-Have-Beens
A poem
Rules of Engagement
A poem
Letters & Responses
Conrad Black, Barrie Zwicker, James Gillies, Robert A. Konduros, Jonathan R. Kesselman, David A. Green
Cover art and pictures throughout the issue 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.
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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