Book Reviews

Coming of Age (p. 112-113)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories by Shyam Selvadurai

Unfinished Business (p. 113-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Birds of Passage by Linda Leith

Warming up Bellies (p. 114-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bellydancer by SKY Lee
  • Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto

Location, Location (p. 116-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City by Paul Delany

Play with an Agenda (p. 118-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wanna Play? Three Plays for High Schools by Tony Hamill
  • Eureka! Seven One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools by Jacquie Johnston Lewis and Dianne Warren
  • Other Schools of Thought by Morris Panych

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass by James Reaney
  • The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era by William J. Mitchell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vehicule Days: An Unorthodox History of Montreal's Véhicule Poets by Ken Norris
  • Gospel: A Poem by Stephen Scobie

Gender in Science (p. 124-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Genderand Science by Evelyn Fox Keller
  • Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives by Sandra Harding

Trickster Critics (p. 127-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West by Arnold E. Davidson
  • Looking at the Words of Our People: First Nations Analysis of Literature by Jeannette C. Armstrong

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Aspiring Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women by Lorraine McMullen and Sandra Campbell
  • The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers by Joyce W. Warren

Book(s) Reviewed

  • To Be There with You by Gayla Reid
  • Lives of the Mind Slaves by Matt Cohen

Native Heritage (p. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Indian Artists at Work by Ulli Steltzer
  • Haida Monumental Art [:] Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands by George F. MacDonald, Bill Reid and Richard J. Huyda

Visions (p. 134-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Woman's Comedy by Beth Herst
  • Literature as Pulpit: The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung by Randi R. Warne
  • Big Time Women from Way Back When. Jehanne of the Witches by Sally Clark

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Discovery of Strangers by Rudy Wiebe

Matrix (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dancing With Goddesses: Archetypes, Poetry, and Empowerment by Annis Pratt
  • Incriminations: Guilty Women/Telling Stories by Karen S. McPherson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Civilization by Paul Quarrington
  • David Cronenberg: A Delicate Balance by Peter Morris

Firework (p. 141-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada by D. M. R. Bentley

Types & Functions (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Englische Literaturgeschichte by Hans Ulrich Seeber
  • Körpersprache in der Literatur: Theorie und Geschichte am Beispiel englischer Erzählprosa by Barbara Korte

Essays (p. 145-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Freedom from Culture: Selected Essays 1982-92 by John Metcalf
  • Writing Home: Selected Essays by David Carpenter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States by Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le recueil de nouvelles by Jean-Pierre Boucher
  • Lettre imaginaire à la femme de mon amant by Lori Saint-Martin
  • Nouvelles de Montréal by Micheline Lafrance
  • Guerre by Luc Asselin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Re-Siting Queen's English: Text and Tradition in Post-Colonial Literature by Gillian Whitlock and Helen Tiffin
  • Postmodern Fiction in Canada by Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens

Colonialism Retold (p. 151-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Book of Secrets by M. G. Vassanji

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I Can Fix Anything by Gary Whitehead
  • The Rain Barrel by George Bowering

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Narcissism and the Novel by Jeffrey Berman
  • Telling Tales: the Hysteric'sSeduction inFiction and Theory by Katherine Cummings
  • Reading the Other: Novels and the Problem of Other Minds by Carol deDobay Rifelj

Mors Tue, Vita Mea (p. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anne Hébert, son oeuvre, leurs exils (essai) by Neil B. Bishop
  • Aurélien, Clara, Mademoiselle et le Lieutenant anglais (récit) by Anne Hébert

Museums and Empire (p. 159-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Too Good To Be True: Toronto in the 1920's by Randall White
  • The Museum Makers: The Story of the Royal Ontario Museum by Lovat Dickson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Walking through the Valley: An Autobiography by George Woodcock

Fahrenheit 451 (p. 163-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Animals' Waltz by Cary Fagan
  • The Black Diamond Ring by Patricia Seaman
  • City of Orphans by Patricia Robertson

Of Loss and Hope (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Winter Helen Dropped By by W. P. Kinsella
  • Milton's Elements by Cordelia Strube

Others’ Histories (p. 166-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 'We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up': Essays in African Canadian Women's History by Dionne Brand and et al.
  • Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women by Carol Camper

Borderlands (p. 168-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Surface Tension by Marisa De Franceschi
  • Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and Latinas in the United States by Denis Lynn Daly Heyck

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Good Story, That One by Thomas King
  • The Native Creative Press by Douglas Cardinal and Jeannette C. Armstrong

Unhappy Endings (p. 173-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Just Say the Words by David Helwig

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language and Analysis by Timothy F. Murphy and Suzanne Poirier
  • Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima by Alberto Manguel and Craig Stephenson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Earth Prime by Bert Almon
  • Designs From the Interior by John Barton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le roman contemporain au Québec (1960-1985) by François Gallays and et al.
  • Territoires de la culture québécoise by Yvan Lamonde

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La littérarité by Louise Milot and Fernand Roy
  • L'instituion du littéraire au Québec by Lucie Robert

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories by Hugh A. Dempsey
  • Lasagna: The Man Behind the Mask by Ronald Cross and Hélène Sévigny

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Island is a World by Samuel Selvon
  • The Third Infinitive by Lakshmi (Myrna) Gill

Late Debates (p. 185-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin by Karen Hohne and Helen Wussow
  • An Ethics of Sexual Difference by Luce Irigaray, Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Take Me to Coney Islan by Miriam Packer
  • A Beach in Maine by Suzanne Jacob and Susanna Finnell
  • Any Time At All and Other Stories by Joyce Marshall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I Had a Job I Liked by Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • Escape from Happiness by George F. Walker
  • Glenn by David Young

A Sense of Wrong (p. 191-193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Half the Sky by Judith Krause
  • Hard Candy by Linda Rogers
  • Bear Bones and Feathers by Louise Bernice Halfe

East Coast Writing (p. 193-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home by Lawrence O'Toole
  • Twentieth-Century Newfoundland: Explorations by James Hiller and Peter Neary
  • Kelusutiek: Original Women's Voices of Atlantic Canada by Renate Usmiani

Extremities (p. 195-196)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Extremities: Fiction from the Burning Rock by Michael Winter
  • Survival Gear by Rita Moir