December 2011
Featured Articles
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The Capitalist Revolution
Together with rapid growth, dazzling technologies and widening circles of development, global capitalism is delivering a turbulent, unequal, out-of-control world. Just as we demanded
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Black Market Culture
A review of Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art, by Joshua Knelman
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It’s Not Easy Being Green
A review of The Legacy: An Elder’s Vision for Our Sustainable Future, by David Suzuki, and Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change, by William Marsden

John Fraser works as an animator and illustrator at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.Cinders McLeod is an illustrator, political cartoonist, writer, animator, doublebassist and art director for The Globe and Mail. To see her work, visit http://www.cindersmcleod.com and “My Life as a Sketchbook: A Visual Autobiography” at cindersmcleod.tumblr.com. You can follow her on Twitter @cindersmcleod.Dushan Milic is a tangent-jumping, pun-making, bike-happy, endlessly curious curmudgeon who has been illustrating and designing for over a decade. He specializes in people, concepts and portraits where movement and gesture dominate. He resides in Hamilton and teaches illustration at OCAD University in Toronto. See more of his award-winning work at dushanmilic.com.Sylvia Nickerson’s illustrations have been published in various magazines and newspapers in North America, including the Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Globe and Mail. She recently completed her first illustration for a book cover, published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2011. To see more of her work go to http://www.sylvianickerson.ca.Deena Pagliarello, born and raised in the capital of Canada and now living in Toronto, graduated with a BFA in 2006 from the University of Ottawa. In 2010 she graduated from Sheridan College’s illustration program with a BAA. She has shown her work at the Pentimento Gallery and the Gladstone Hotel, and it has been featured in Creative Quarterly 18, Toronto’s Eye Weekly and Bust Magazine.Wes Tyrell is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist from Toronto. Prior to his life as a freelancer, he ran a hotel in Cuba and is writing about this in a graphic novel Fidel & I. Wes has drawn for Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, the Hamilton Spectator and the BBC. More about him is available at http://www.westyrell.com.Aimée van Drimmelen is a Canadian illustrator, etc. Her first animated short for the National Film Board of Canada, Black Gold, was released this November. See more at aimeevandrimmelen.com.
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The Capitalist Revolution
Together with rapid growth, dazzling technologies and widening circles of development, global capitalism is delivering a turbulent, unequal, out-of-control world. Just as we demanded
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Black Market Culture
A review of Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art, by Joshua Knelman
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It’s Not Easy Being Green
A review of The Legacy: An Elder’s Vision for Our Sustainable Future, by David Suzuki, and Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change, by William Marsden
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A Brilliant Polemic
A review of Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid, by Samantha Nutt
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Running on the Knife’s Edge
A review of Dogs at the Perimeter, by Madeleine Thien
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An Unsentimental Portrait
A review of Richard Gwyn’s Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times. Volume Two: 1867–1891
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All Over the Map
A review of Grassroots Liberals: Organizing for Local and National Politics, by Royce Koop
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Joy in Battle
A review of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, by Tzeporah Berman with Mark Leiren-Young
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Promise
A poem
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Memoir as Utopia
A review of The Moral Lives of Israelis: Reinventing the Dream State, by David Berlin
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Wilful Blindness
A review of Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests, by Andrew Nikiforuk
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Doing as the Romans Do
A review of Imperial Republics: Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French Revolution, by Edward G. Andrew
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Searching for the Ideal City
A review of Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder, by Ken Greenberg
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Music at the Heart of Thinking 147
A poem
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December 2nd
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Funny, Sad and True
A review of The Antagonist, by Lynn Coady
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The World Turns
A review of The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism, by Kent Roach
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Golden Boys
A review of Oliver’s Twist: The Life and Times of an Unapologetic Newshound, by Craig Oliver, and Boy from Nowhere: A Life in Ninety-One Countries, by Allan Fotheringham
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A Wonderful Pipedream
A review of Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL, by Roger L. Martin
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Svengali on Ice
A review of The Lost Dream: The Story of Mike Danton, David Frost and a Broken Canadian Family, by Steve Simmons
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A Heavily Qualified Greatness
A review of King: William Lyon Mackenzie King, A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny, by Allan Levine