Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Présences intermittentes des Amériques by Ariane Audet
  • La littérature du vacuum : genèse de la littérature franco-ontarienne by Gaston Tremblay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Descent into Night by Edem Awumey, Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott
  • If Clara by Martha Baillie

Then as Now (p. 128-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Essential John Reibetanz by John Reibetanz and Jeffrey Donaldson
  • Space Between Her Lips: The Poetry of Margaret Christakos by Margaret Christakos and Gregory Betts
  • Certain Details: The Poetry of Nelson Ball by Nelson Ball and Stuart Ross

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes by Jennifer LoveGrove
  • Feel Happier in Nine Seconds by Linda Besner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vingt-quatre heures en Tesselles mosaïcales by Hédi Bouraoui
  • La Plantée by Hédi Bouraoui
  • L'âme des marionnettes by Sergio Kokis

A Day in the Life (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Heavy Bear by Tim Bowling

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton by Mary Chapman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority by Eleanor Ty
  • Asian Canadian Studies Reader by Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Exhibiting Nation: Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums by Caitlin Gordon-Walker
  • Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed by Maeve Conrick, Munroe Eagles, Jane Koustas and Caitríona Ní Chasaide
  • Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s by Cecilia Morgan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • White Elephant by Catherine Cooper

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Lesser Blessed (20th Anniversary Special Edition) by Richard Van Camp
  • The Heaviness of Things That Float by Jennifer Manuel
  • Bearskin Diary by Carol Daniels

The Great Divide (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • breathing at dusk by Beth Goobie
  • Late Style by Barry Dempster
  • A Temporary Stranger by Jamie Reid

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Landfall by Joe Denham
  • A tattered coat upon a stick by Christopher Levenson
  • Siren by Kateri Lanthier

There’s Smoke (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational by Elaine Dewar

Book(s) Reviewed

  • You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel
  • Sukaq and the Raven by Roy Goose, Kerry McCluskey and Soyeon Kim
  • The Gnawer of Rocks by Louise Flaherty and Jim Nelson
  • When We Were Alone by David Alexander Robertson and Julie Flett
  • Jon's Tricky Journey: A Story for Inuit Children with Cancer and Their Families by Patricia McCarthy and Hwei Lim

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trailer Park Elegy by Cornelia Hoogland
  • Silvija by Sandra Ridley
  • Selah by Nora Gould

Poems New and Old (p. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Celery Forest by Catherine Graham
  • Into the Open: Poems New and Selected by Susan McCaslin
  • In Your Words: Translations from the Yiddish and the Hebrew by Seymour Mayne
  • Kids in Triage by Kilby Smith-McGregor

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flightpaths: The Lost Journals of Amelia Earhart by Heidi Greco
  • Defending Darkness by Pamela Porter
  • The Long Walk by Jan Zwicky

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined by Danielle Younge-Ullman
  • Munro vs. the Coyote by Darren Groth
  • The Most Dangerous Thing by Leanne Lieberman

Growing Up Inuk (p. 152-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Why the Monster by Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley and Toma Feizo Gas
  • Those Who Run in the Sky by Aviaq Johnston and Toma Feizo Gas

After Globalization (p. 153-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Negative Cosmopolitanism: Cultures and Politics of Citizenship after Globalization by Eddy Kent and Terri Tomsky

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Performing the Intercultural City by Ric Knowles

Asian Occupations (p. 156-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Homes We Build on Ashes by Christina Park
  • The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake

Book(s) Reviewed

  • De l’impuissance à l’autonomie : Évolution culturelle et enjeux identitaires des minorités canadiennes-françaises by Laurent Poliquin
  • La contre-culture au Québec by Karim Larose and Frédéric Emmanuel Rondeau

Reading as Living (p. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Readopolis by Bertrand Laverdure and Oana Avasilichioaei

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Performance Studies in Canada by Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals by Jim Nason
  • Hunting Piero by Wendy MacIntyre

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups & Downs of Marriage by Jane Silcott and Fiona Tinwei Lam
  • Shakespeare and Canada: Remembrance of Ourselves by Irena R. Makaryk and Kathryn Prince

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Whatever, Iceberg by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
  • Same Diff by Donato Mancini

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trance Speakers: Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Séances, 1850-1930 by Claudie Massicotte
  • Science of the Seance: Transnational Networks and Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40 by Beth A. Robertson

Charmed (p. 167-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Panic Room by Rebecca Păpucaru
  • Charm by Christine McNair
  • All the Names Between by Julia McCarthy

Silver Fish (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • If Pressed by Andrew McEwan
  • Better Nature by Fenn Stewart

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert’s Land in the Age of Enlightenment by Barbara Mitchell

Creation Myths (p. 170-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Arrival: The Story of CanLit by Nick Mount

Sonic Emotion (p. 172-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • On Shaving Off His Face by Shane Neilson
  • Dysphoria by Shane Neilson
  • Complete Physical by Shane Neilson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Way Back Home by Allan Stratton
  • Subject to Change by Karen Nesbitt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The New Spice Box: Canadian Jewish Writing, Volume 1 by Ruth Panofsky

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rules of the Kingdom by Julie Paul
  • Songs of Exile by Bänoo Zan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Men Walking on Water by Emily Schultz
  • Be My Wolff by Emma Richler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives by Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beyond "Understanding Canada": Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature by Melissa Tanti, Jeremy Haynes, Daniel Coleman and Lorraine York

Book(s) Reviewed

  • With the Witnesses: Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience by Dale Tracy

Toxic Colonialism (p. 183-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley by Sarah Marie Wiebe