Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Hospital by Debbie Bailey
  • We Need to Go to School: Voices of the Rugmark Children by Tanya Roberts-Davis
  • Wizards: An Amazing Journey through the Last Great Age of Magic by Candace Savage
  • Ultra Hush-Hush: Espionage and Special Missions by Tina Forrester, Stephen Shapiro and David Craig

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Carol Shields: The Arts of a Writing Life by Neil Besner

A Swing and a Miss (p. 134-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Baseballissimo by Dave Bidini

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World by Jo Ellen Bogart
  • Four Pictures by Emily Carr by Nicholas Debon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Blue Books by Nicole Brossard

Making Waves (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Maiden Voyages: Ship’s Company Theatre Premieres 2000–2002 by Scott Burke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mars is For Poems by Aaron Bushkowsky
  • Untying the Tongue by Gregory M. Cook
  • Cobalt Moon Embrace by Linda Frank
  • Reconciliation Poems by Adam Getty
  • Strange Currencies by Daniel Sendecki

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Growth and Governance of Canadian Universities: An Insider’s View by Howard C. Clark

Book(s) Reviewed

  • En garde! Les Représentations de la tuberculose au Québec dans la première moitié du XXe. siècle by Louise Côté

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marriage of Minds: Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada by Terry Crowley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • City of Rains by Nirmal Dass and Anupama Mohan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Boy O'Boy by Brian Doyle
  • Run by Rick Mulholland and Eric Walters

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Talon by Paulette Dubé

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Quietly My Captain Waits by Evelyn Eaton
  • The Night Hawk by Alice Jones
  • With Wolfe in Canada by G. A. Henty

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gabrielle Roy réécrite by Jane Everett and François Ricard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786–89 by Robert M. Galois

Hollywood Not (p. 150-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia by Mike Gasher

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Landscapes of Encounter: The Portrayal of Catholicism in the Novels of Brian Moore by Liam Gearon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Petty Details of So-and-So's Life by Camilla Gibb

Wages of Farming (p. 154-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Murder of Medicine Bear by Susan Haley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon by Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin
  • Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping by Pamela Klaffke
  • Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership & Intellectual Property Law by Kembrew McLeod

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Owning Culture by Kewbrew McLeod
  • Spree by Pamela Klaffke
  • Built to Win by Shari L. Dworkin and Leslie Heywood

Book(s) Reviewed

  • New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikiumura-Yano and James A. Hirabayashi
  • Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: the Metamorphoses of Southern California by Marta Lopez-Garza and David R. Diaz

Pathway of the Son (p. 158-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Distance by Jack Hodgins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Be Quiet by Margaret Hollingsworth

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reading the East India Company, 1720 - 1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender by Betty Joseph

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Uncommon Readers: Dennis Donoghue, Frank Kermode, George Steiner, and the Tradition of the Common Reader by Christopher J. Knight

Shades of Otherness (p. 163-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Voice Is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction by Laurie Kruk

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le petit Lalonde by Raymond Lévesque
  • Maïta by Esther Beauchemin

How to Be Good (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alms by Cynthia Macdonald
  • Heave by Christy Ann Conlin

Love and Loss (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Filling the Belly by Tara Manuel
  • Significant Things by Helen McLean

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Forde Abroad by John Metcalf
  • An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir by John Metcalf

Seeking in Chaos (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Open by Lisa Moore

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Fed Anthology by Susan Musgrave
  • Baseball: A Poem in the Magic Number 9 by Claude Boisvert

Making Space (p. 172-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade by Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin
  • Urban Encounters by Helen Liggett

Black Talk (p. 174-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What's a Black Critic to Do?: Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers by Donna Bailey Nurse

Cancer Treatment (p. 175-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History by James S. Olson

Au fil de la vie… (p. 176-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Parcours d'un combattant by André Paquette
  • Ma chère Margot by Monique Le Maner

Migration as Muse (p. 177-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • F. G. Paci—Essays on His Works by J. Pivato
  • The Freedom of the Migrant—Objections to Nationalism by Vilem Flusser

The Kamikaze Father (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Hundred Million Hearts by Kerri Sakamoto

The New World (p. 180-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Initiation by Virginia Frances Schwartz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Muriella Pent by Russell Smith

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Flourish by Heather Spears

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Becoming Ruby by Kathy Stinson
  • Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman

Downtown Jews (p. 183-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen X. Tuchinsky

Downtown Jews (p. 183-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen X. Tulchinsky

Lourd secret (p. 185-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les enfants Beaudet by Isabel Vaillancourt

Absent Fathers (p. 186-188)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alley Alley Home Free. Writing West Series by Fred Wah
  • My Father's Cup by Tom Wayman
  • the breath you take from the lord by Patrick Friesen

Paging Dr. Tin (p. 188-188)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kid Stuff by Tom Walmsley

Public Radio (p. 189-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • CKUA: Radio Worth Fighting For by Marylu Walters

Histoqueerographies (p. 190-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada by Tom Warner
  • The Pleasures of Time: Two Men, a Life by Stephen Harold Riggins

In the Elegaic Mode (p. 192-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Today I Belong To Agnes by Glen Sorestad
  • Telling Stories by David Helwig
  • Weathers: Poems New and Selected by Douglas Lochhead
  • Crossing the Salt Flats by Christopher Wiseman

Of Note (p. 194-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What's Come Over Her by Helen Mourre

Of Note (p. 194-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley by Beth Hill and Cathy Converse

Of Note (p. 194-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories by Val Ross

Of Note (p. 195-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hot Flashes: Maiduguri Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka by Richard Stevenson

Of Note (p. 196-196)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian by Maria Tippett