The Literary Review of Canada

Magazine Issue ›› April 2007

• Contents

In the April 2007 Issue

• Iraq and the Future of the United Nations

  A review of David M. Malone’s The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980–2005

  Edward C. Luck

• Searching for Race-Neutral Ground

  A review of Race and the City: Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization, by Shanti Fernando

  Denise Chong

• Referendum? What Referendum?

  An essay

  Sujit Choudhry

• Down the Toilet

  A review of The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage, by Jamie Benidickson

  David Cameron

• Don’t It Always Seem To Go

  A review of Shereen Ismael’s Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State: From Entitlement to Charity

  John Stapleton

• Heroic Measures

  A review of Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape and a House in Marseille, by Rosemary Sullivan

  Bernice Eisenstein

• The Novel as Rubik’s Cube

  A review of Brett Josef Grubisic’s The Age of Cities

  Allan D. Peterkin

• The View from Alice Munro

  A review of Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock

  Margaret-Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly

• The Inner Frye

  A review of Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architect of the Spiritual World, Volume 5 and Volume 6, edited by Robert D. Denham, and The “Third Book” Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964–1972: The Critical Comedy, Volume 9, edited by Michael Dolzani

  Bob Rodgers

• Allergic to Dirty Politics

  A review of Louise Carbert’s Rural Women’s Leadership in Atlantic Canada: First-Hand Perspectives on Local Public Life and Participation in Electoral Politics

  Rosemary Speirs

• A Place with Pizzazz

  A review of College Street, Little Italy: Toronto’s Renaissance Strip, edited by Denis De Klerck and Corrado Paina

  Kenneth Bagnell

• An Intriguing But Incomplete Picture

  A review of Conversations in Tehran, by Jean-Daniel Lafond and Fred A. Reed

  Saeed Rahnema

• Shadow Dancing with the Americans

  A review of John Murray Clearwater’s Just Dummies: Cruise Missile Testing in Canada

  Desmond Morton

• The Past Reframes Itself

  A review of Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960–1971, by Dimitry Anastakis, and Dancing around the Elephant: Creating a Prosperous Canada in an Era of American Dominance, 1957–1973, by Bruce Muirhead

  Mel Watkins

• The Woman and the Garden

  A poem

  David Livingstone Clink

• Dear Reader

  A poem

  Jason Guriel

• It happens on a bus

  A poem

  Jody Aliesan

• The Hanged Man

  A poem

  Maureen Hynes

• Letters and Responses

  Piotr Dutkiewicz, Lawrence Wardroper, Charlie Hill

• Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Tom Pokinko

  Tom Pokinko is a graphic artist based in Montreal. His work has appeared in The Progressive, Clamor and Fine Books & Collections, as well as with the United Nations Association in Canada. His portfolio is available at www.tompokinko.com.