Dorothy F. Lane


Works by Dorothy F. Lane

Book Reviews

Book Reviews by Dorothy F. Lane

Setting Down Roots
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in web format on Canadian Literature‘s website. (Pending print publication.)
  • Going to Ground: Essays on Aging, Chronic Pain and the Healing Power of Nature by Luanne Armstrong (Author)
  • Queasy: A Wannabe Writer's Bumpy Journey Through England in the 70's by Madeline Sonik (Author)
Vicious and Virtuous Circles
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in web format on Canadian Literature‘s website. (Pending print publication.)
  • Second Place by Rachel Cusk (Author)
  • On Foot to Canterbury by Ken Haigh (Author)
The Places We Were
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in web format on Canadian Literature‘s website. (Pending print publication.)
  • Wreck: A Very Anxious Memoir by Kelly Jo Burke
  • Open Every Window by Jane Munro
Drilling Down
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 150-152.
  • Unravelling by Josephine Boxwell
  • I Can't Get You Out of My Mind by Marianne Apostolides
Degrees of Separation
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Reading, Writing, Listening Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 241 (2020): 144-145.
  • The Far Himalaya by Phillip Ernest
  • The Lost Sister by Andrea Gunraj
Darkness Visible
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in 60th Anniversary Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 239 (2019): 165-167.
  • In Valhalla's Shadows by W. D. Valgardson
  • Catch My Drift by Genevieve Scott
A Little Water
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Lost and Found Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 236 (2018): 148-150.
  • A Place You'll Never Be by Rick Hillis
  • A Handbook for Beautiful People by Jennifer Spruit
  • All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Carole Giangrande
Esprit de Corps
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Eclectic Mix Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 234 (Autumn 2017): 145-146.
  • The Nearly Girl by Lisa de Nikolits
  • The Effects of Isolation on the Brain by Erika Rummel
  • Job Shadowing by Malcolm Sutton
Marking Time
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 138-140.
  • Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer by Kenneth Sherman
  • A Year of Days by Myrl Coulter
  • I Wasn't Always Like This by Shelley A. Leedahl
A Tangled Web
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 155-57.
  • Yes, and Back Again by Sandy Marie Bonny (Author)
  • The Capacity for Infinite Happiness by Alexis von Konigslow (Author)
  • A Hero by Charlotte R. Mendel (Author)
Diasporic Discontent
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Queer Frontiers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 224 (Spring 2015): 111-12.
  • The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan
  • Fauji Banta Singh and Other Stories by Sadhu Binning
The Persistence of Place and Personality
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Agency & Affect. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 223 (Winter 2014): 164-66.
  • Corporate Character : Representing Imperial Power in British India, 1786-1901 by Eddy Kent
  • And Home was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa by M. G. Vassanji
High Notes
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Mordecai Richler. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 207 (Winter 2010): 108-110.
  • Walking on Water by Jancis M. Andrews
  • The Old Familiar by Alex Hawley
  • The Grumpy Man by Raymond Fraser
Beyond Repair
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Home, Memory, Self. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 203 (Winter 2009): 138-140.
  • Evidence by Ian Colford
  • Elysium by Pamela Stewart
  • The Cult of Quick Repair by Dede Crane
Disenfranchised Grief
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Home, Memory, Self. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 203 (Winter 2009): 140-141.
  • The Darren Effect by Libby Creelman
  • Happiness and other Disorders by Ahmad Saidullah
Missing Persons
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Context(e)s. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 195 (Winter 2007): 165-166.
  • He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo
  • Delible by Anne Stone
Shell-Shocked Species
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Visual/Textual Intersections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 194 (Autumn 2007): 116-119.
  • Unholy Stories by Carole David and Nora Alleyn (Translator)
  • Kiss of the Beggar by Pierre L'Abbé
  • Killing Time by Hank Schachte
  • Encounters by Michael Trussler
Books of Secrets
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Canadian Literature 191 (Winter 2006): 158-160.
  • The Journey Prize Stories: From the Best of Canada’s New Writers by James Grainger (Editor) and Nancy Lee (Editor)
  • When She Was Queen: Stories by M. G. Vassanji
"An Alien Soil"
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Canadian Literature 164 (Spring 2000): 150-152.
  • Slammin' Tar by Cecil Foster
  • The Origin of Waves by Austin Clarke
Intersecting Lives
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Urquhart and Munro. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 150 (Autumn 1996): 159-161.
  • Even At This Distance by Ann Knight and W. P. Kinsella
  • Rising About Us by Edith Van Beek
  • In War with Time by Leila Pepper
Interrogating the Past
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Native, Individual, State. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 144 (Spring 1995): 186-188.
  • Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History by Veronica Strong-Boag (Editor) and Anita Clair Fellman (Editor)
  • A History of Women in the West III. Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes by Natalie Zemon Davis (Editor) and Arlette Farge (Editor)
Uncomfortable Tradition
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Strangers & Strange Voices. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 141 (Summer 1994): 116-117.
  • Silence Made Visible: Howard O'Hagan and Tay John by Margery Fee (Editor)
  • Into Africa with Margaret Laurence by Fiona Sparrow
Outsider Within
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Past, Present, Future. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993): 133-135.
  • Anatomy of Gender: Women's Struggle for the Body by Dawn Currie (Editor) and Valerie Raoul (Editor)
  • Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggle by Himani Bannerji and et. al
Disentangling Narratives
By Dorothy F. Lane
Published in Contested Migrations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 219 (Winter 2013): 137-39.
  • The Magic of Saida by M. G. Vassanji
  • The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin