The Literary Review of Canada

Magazine Issue ›› May 2007

• Contents

In the May 2007 Issue

• All in the Family

  A review of The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation and the Evidence That Could Change History, by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, and The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family and the Birth of Christianity, by James D. Tabor

  Michael Enright

• Doomsday Always Sells

  A review of J.L. Granatstein’s Whose War Is It? How Canada Can Survive in the Post-9/11 World

  Anthony Westell

• Hiyo, Flicka!

  A review of Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations, by J. Edward Chamberlin

  Sid Marty

• My Father’s Books

  An essay

  William Watson

• One-Note History

  A review of Faith and the Sword: A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict, by Alan G. Jamieson

  Thabit A.J. Abdullah

• Canada: A Workers’ Paradise?

  A review of Dan Zuberi’s Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada

  Mark Leier

• Gobsmacked by the Writing

  A review of The Law of Dreams, by Peter Behrens

  Ray Conlogue

• 19 A Royal Farce

  A review of Scott Gardiner’s King John of Canada

  Andrew Clark

• Brilliance and Arrogance

  A review of The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC and Vietnam, by Andrew Preston

  David A. Welch

• A Linguistic Treasure Box

  A review of Howard Richler’s Global Mother Tongue: The Eight Flavours of English

  Warren Clements

• Bankrolling an Empire

  A review of A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal, Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492–1640, by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert

  Afua Cooper

• Challenging Robert Putnam

  A review of Barbara Arneil’s Diverse Communities: The Problem with Social Capital

  Tim Brodhead

• The Watchdog of Psychoanalysis

  A review of Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones, by Brenda Maddox

  Cyril Greenland

• A Window or a Mirror?

  A review of Canadian Television Today, by Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan

  Trina McQueen

• Ash Fire

  Two poems

  Mark Abley

• Fate Scuffed Case Informed by Proofs of Passage

  Two poems

  Merle Nudelman

• Heartwood

  A poem

  Brian Henderson

• Letters & Responses

  Jim Stanford, Shanti Fernando

• Cover art and pictures throughout the issue by Kevin Sylvester

  Kevin Sylvester is an author, illustrator and broadcaster who lives in Toronto. His children’s book Sports Hall of Weird was named a Silver Birch Honour book in 2006. The sequel, Gold Medal for Weird, is due out this fall. His spoof of the 1972 Summit Series, Shadrin Has Scored for Russia, is available from him directly at ksylvester@sympatico.ca.