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Modernist Looking Glass How a City Hall Helped Toronto Grow Up An ingenious mathematician PAGE 10 Visit reviewcanada.ca for web-exclusive essays and reviews $6.50 Vol. 23, No. 10 December 2015 Joe Berridge Modernist looking glass How a city hall helped Toronto grow up ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Ramona Pringle Netflix and chill Jen Gerson Battling the PMO Marty Gervais Literary geography PLUS: NON-FICTION Lisa Tomlinson on Austin Clarke’s immigration to Canada + Michael W. Higgins on a Canadian priest in Latin America + Wendy McElroy on pink Viagra + David M. Malone on Pearson and the Suez + D.B. Krupp on psychopathology myths + Aritha van Herk on Helen Humphreys’s Publications Mail Agreement #40032362 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to naturalism + John Lownsbrough on a writer’s companion parrot + Allan C. Hutchinson on legalese LRC, Circulation Dept. 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