The Editor’s Desk
Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Underhill Review, a forum that explores the intersection of history, ideas, and culture. We hope you will enjoy what you discover here and that you will return often.
We offer a forum on history, ideas, and culture consisting of essays and review essays on works of non-fiction from Canada and abroad. We provide an intellectual space mid-way between the scholarly journal and the commercial literary magazine. We publish writers willing to subordinate the footnote to the author’s voice. That’s why we like Frank Underhill.
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Fall 2007
Featured Artist
Throughout history, the visual arts have reflected cultural and religious beliefs and values, confirmed allegiances, asserted national and regional independence, and voiced social and political protest. In recognition of the contribution Canadian artists have made to the nation, each issue of The Underhill Review will feature a significant Canadian artist. We have selected the renowned printmaker Walter J. Phillips for our first issue. … more
Walter J. Phillips, “Jack Pine” (1940), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Essays:
Man of a century, doyen of cultural history, baseball-loving Frenchman, elegant curmudgeon – Modris Eksteins writes on Jacques Barzun at 100 and what he means to us … more
At Toronto’s Innis College, students chant, “Who the hell is Harold Innis?” Well, who the hell is Frank Underhill, and why should we care? Ken Dewar tells us. … more
Review Essays
Frank Underhill was wrong: Canada does have an intellectual history … and some pretty good philosophers, too. So says Robert Sibley in our feature review essay … more
CanLit gave us Atwood and Munro and Anne of Green Gables, right? But those little people called Brownies? Margery Fee examines the history of the book in Canada … more
Men, masculinity, and war – Karen Dubinsky explores the charged ingredients of a modernist crisis, Canadian style … more
“He haunts us still.” Sure, but which apparition? Donald Wright bumps into the many shades of Pierre Trudeau … more