Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities by Marcel O'Gorman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Volume One by Cynthia Zimmerman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada’s Ukrainians by Lisa Grekul

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Traveller's Hat by Liza Potvin

If Women Wrote Them (p. 101-102)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dropped Threads 3: Beyond the Small Circle by Marjorie Anderson

Sounding Some Poems (p. 103-104)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fractal Economies by Derek Beaulieu
  • The Good Bacteria by Sharon Thesen
  • Airstream Land Yacht by Ken Babstock

Overheard in Dreams (p. 104-106)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fluid Arguments by Nicole Brossard, Susan Rudy and Ann-Marie Wheeler
  • No Margins: Writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian by Catherine Lake and Nairne Holtz

Poetry Weather (p. 106-107)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nerve Squall by Sylvia Legris
  • The Silver Palace Restaurant by Mark Abley
  • Ink Monkey by Diana Hartog
  • Re:Zoom by sheri-d wilson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work by Ray Chow

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Escale océan by Guylaine Massoutre
  • En italiques: Réflexions sur l’ethnicité by Antonio D'Alfonso

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le roman québécois contemporain: les voix sous les mots by André Lamontagne

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Naufragé en terre ferme by Vittorio Frigerio

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 400 Kilometres by Drew Hayden Taylor
  • Cariboo Magi by Lucia Frangione
  • Belle Moral: A Natural History by Ann-Marie MacDonald
  • Half Life by John Mighton
  • The Dishwashers by Morris Panych
  • The Driving Force by Michel Tremblay and Linda Gaboriau

Visions of Love (p. 115-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ladykiller by Charlotte Gill

Wanted: New Readers (p. 116-117)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy by Al (Alfred W) Purdy and Robert Budde
  • Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt by Di Brandt and Tanis MacDonald
  • Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay by Don McKay and Méira Cook

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Que vais-je devenir jusqu'à ce que je meure? by Robert Lalonde
  • Le Mangeur by Ying Chen

Looking Inward (p. 119-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hard Edge by F. G. Paci
  • Girls Closed In by France Theoret and Luise Von Flotow

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Parachute by Sinclair Dumontais and Patricia Claxon
  • How Happy to Be by Katrina Onstad
  • The Sound of All Flesh by Barry Webster

Meaning in Excess (p. 122-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Showbiz by Jason Anderson
  • The Rent Collector by B. Glen Rotchin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Far Away Home by Marci Denesiuk
  • So It Won't Go Away by John Lent
  • The Vanishing Man by Aaron Bushkowsky

Book(s) Reviewed

  • All That Glitters by Martine Desjardins, Fred A. Reed and David Toby Homel
  • The Madonna List by Max Foran
  • Casualties by Terrence Heath

Military Culture (p. 128-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Understanding Military Culture by Allan D. English

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Blueness of Light by Louise Dupré and Antonio D'Alfonso
  • The Unsaid Passing by B. W. Powe
  • The Fertile Crescent by Karen Shenfeld

Fear of Doorknobs (p. 131-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flesh, A Naked Dress by Susan Andrews Grace
  • The Clichéist by Amanda Lamarche
  • A Plot of Light by Susan McCaslin
  • over the roofs of the world by Olive Senior

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Baron Bold and the Beauteous Maid: A Compact History of Canadian Theatre by Brian Kennedy
  • Nextfest Anthology II: Plays from the Syncrude Next Generation Arts Festival by Steve Pirot

Remembering Hana (p. 135-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
  • Hana's Suitcase on Stage by Karin Levine and Emil Sher

Stories of Loss (p. 137-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Remarkable Women Writers by Heather Ball
  • Asthmatica by Jon Paul Fiorentino
  • A Small Dog Barking by Robert Strandquist
  • Dark Times by Ann Walsh

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Visiting Hours by Shane .L. Koyczan

Comrade Shakespeare (p. 139-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shakespeare in the Worlds of Communism and Socialism by Irena R. Makaryk and Joseph G. Price

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe and Ryan Price
  • When I Was a Boy Neruda Called Me Policarpo by Poli Délano, Sean Higgins and Manuel Monroy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • As If by Accident by Julie Johnston
  • The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson

First and Last (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Out to Dry in Cape Breton by Anita Lahey
  • When Earth Leaps Up by Anne Szumigalski and Mark Abley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • My Own Places: Poems on John Constable by Don Kerr
  • Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method by Daniel Scott Tysdal

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le livre de l'échoppe by Michel Leclerc
  • Paroles pour un voyageur by Hugues Corriveau
  • Brisures by François Dumont

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations by J. Edward Chamberlin

Decoding the Code (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Great Code: The Bible and Literature: Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19 by Northrop Frye and Alvin Lee

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Consumption by Kevin Patterson
  • God of the Plains by Gail Robinson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mr. Hiroshi's Garden by Maxine Trottier and Paul Morin
  • Secret of the Dance by Andrea Spalding, Alfred Scow and Darlene Gait
  • The Birdman by Veronika Martenova Charles, Annouchka Gravel Galouchko and Stéphan Daigle

Oprah Will Love It (p. 153-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Blatant Injustice: The Story of a Jewish Refugee from Nazi Germany Imprisoned in Britain and Canada during World War II by Walter W. Igersheimer and Ian Darragh
  • Aftershock: Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism by David Matas

Iron Keys (p. 156-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting by Darren Wershler-Henry

Book(s) Reviewed

  • My Name is Bosnia by Madeleine Gagnon, Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: Text and Context by Hartmut Lutz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Je me souviens: Memories of an Expatriate Anglophone Montréalaise Québécoise Exiled in Canada by Lorena Gale

Brave New Prairie (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stolen by Annette Lapointe

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Baldwins by Serge Lamothe
  • Sleeping on the Moon by Sylvia Adams
  • Moving Day by Terence Young

Chaotic Fancies (p. 163-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel

Abiding Space (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Occupied World by Alice Major

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le partenaire occulté : manifestations du narrataire dans le roman québécois by Carole Connelly

Varied Voices (p. 167-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shall: Ghazals by Catherine Owen
  • The Refrigerator Memory by Shannon Bramer
  • The Octopus and Other Poems by Jennica Harper

Erratic Relations (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Minor Planet for You and Other Stories by Leslie Greentree

Of Note (p. 169-70)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sointula by Bill Gaston

Of Note (p. 170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Strike/Slip by Don McKay

Of Note (p. 170-71)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Achitecture by Lisa Robertson

Of Note (p. 171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Living Language and Dead Reckoning: Navigating Oral and Written Traditions by J. Edward Chamberlin

Of Note (p. 171-72)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Dirge for My Daughter: Poems by Frederick Philip Grove and Klaus Martens

Of Note (p. 172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Degrees of Nakedness by Lisa Moore

Of Note (p. 172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Uproar's Your Only Music by Louise Anne Bouchard