July–August 2011
Featured Articles
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Our Hidden History
A review of Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, by John Ralston Saul
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Free-Fall Employment
A review of Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Employment, by Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke and Alice de Wolff
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Imaginary Getaways
Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more

Wes Tyrell is a Toronto-based illustrator and cartoonist. He can be reached at westyrell.com.
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Our Hidden History
A review of Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, by John Ralston Saul
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Free-Fall Employment
A review of Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Employment, by Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke and Alice de Wolff
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Imaginary Getaways
Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more
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Why Fiction is Good for You
Forget moral edification: psychological research shows literature’s mind-altering effects.
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The Rights of Refugees
A review of Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What to Do About It, by Andy Lamey, and Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers, by Ruben Zaiotti
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Courting Controversy
A review of Bad Medicine: A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community, by John Reilly
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The Night I Slept in Your Throat (an excerpt)
A poem
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Brainchild Bio
A review of The Evolution of Inanimate Objects: The Life and Collected Works of Thomas Darwin (1857–1879), by Harry Karlinsky
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Middle Men
A review of Midway, by David Homel, and The Joyful Child, by Norman Ravvin
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The Big One
A review of Cascadia’s Fault: The Deadly Earthquake That Will Devastate North America, by Jerry Thompson