January–February 2012
Featured Articles
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Does the Past Have a Future?
It turns out h-i-s-t-o-r-y can be spelled many different ways
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Waves of Contempt
A review of A Matter of Principle, by Conrad Black
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The Afghan Decade
A review of The Long Way Back: Afghanistan’s Quest for Peace, by Chris Alexander, and Come from the Shadows: The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan, by Terry Glavin
Born in Hong Kong in 1984, Ryan Dodgson has in recent years been living and working across from various chocolate factories in Toronto. His work has won a number of awards and appeared in Eye Weekly, McSweeney’s, The Believer and The New York Times among other publications. He is currently at work on a book-and-record set with musician/friend Moshe Rozenberg.
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Does the Past Have a Future?
It turns out h-i-s-t-o-r-y can be spelled many different ways
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Waves of Contempt
A review of A Matter of Principle, by Conrad Black
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The Afghan Decade
A review of The Long Way Back: Afghanistan’s Quest for Peace, by Chris Alexander, and Come from the Shadows: The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan, by Terry Glavin
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The Pierre We Hardly Knew
A review of Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965, Volume Two, by Monique and Max Nemni, translated by George Tombs
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Love and Marriage Canadian-Style
A review of Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930, by Dan Azoulay
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The Ties that Bind
A review of Rebecca Kingston’s Public Passion: Rethinking the Grounds for Political Justice
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A Very Modern Pandemic
A review of The Origins of AIDS, by Jacques Pepin
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Artistic Autocrat
A review of The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca, by Carol Bishop-Gwyn
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Lead
A poem
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Ship's Prow Is the Cubist Slate They Call a Face
A poem
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Endearing Assassins
A review of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers
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Dubai Glitz to Hardware Retail
A review of David Penhale’s Passing Through
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Up in the Air
A review of Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb, edited by Janice Gross Stein
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Heroism and Villainy
A review of Heroes of the Acadian Resistance: The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Suette, 1702-1765, by Dianne Marshall
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Full Steam Ahead?
A review of The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy, by Chris Turner
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Back from War
What do we know about the mental health of returning soldiers?
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The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus
On the westward shift of Canadian power and values
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Writers in Exile: What Shuts Them Up?
Authors fleeing persecution today are haunted not just by memories, but the ongoing threat of reprisal