Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Moveable Margins by Chelva Kanaganayakam
  • Accounting for Culture by Caroline Andrew, M. Sharon Jeannotte, Will Straw and Monica Gattinger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Échanges intellectuels entre la France et le Québec (1930-2000) by Stéphanie Angers and Gérard Fabre

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Charles the Bold: The Dog Years by Yves Beauchemin and Wayne Grady
  • On the Eighth Day by Antonine Maillet and Wayne Grady

Keep Moving (p. 100-101)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens

Rites of Passage (p. 101-103)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Crabbe by William Bell
  • A Very Fine Line by Julie Johnston

Feminist Theatres (p. 103-104)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Feminist Theatre and Performance by Susan Bennett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Muddy Hand by Earle Birney and Sam Solecki

Book(s) Reviewed

  • History in the Making: Metafiktion im neueren anglokanadischen historischen Roman by Gordon Bölling

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'artisan by Jacques Brault
  • Cantilène by Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon
  • Dans l'ombre saccagée du désir by Luc Lecompte

Gaining Loss (p. 107-109)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Body Contact by Terry Carroll
  • Released by Margaret MacPherson

Villégiatures (p. 109-110)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le vieux fantôme qui dansait sous la lune by Sophie Frisson
  • L'haleine de la mer by Normand Cazelais

Teenage Resentments (p. 110-112)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Never to be Told by Becky Citra
  • Chasing the Moon by Penny Chamberlain

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Enigmas and Riddles in Literature by Eleanor Cook

Back to the Future (p. 113-115)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Watching Quebec: Selected Essays by Ramsay Cook

Book(s) Reviewed

  • the bentleys by Dennis Cooley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unholy Stories by Carole David and Nora Alleyn
  • Kiss of the Beggar by Pierre L'Abbé
  • Killing Time by Hank Schachte
  • Encounters by Michael Trussler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Treading Water by Anne DeGrace
  • Phantom Lake: North of 54 by Birk Sproxton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • April Fool by William Deverell
  • Touch by Gayleen Froese

Hantises (p. 122-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La passion des nomades by Daniel Castillo Durante
  • La kermesse by Daniel Poliquin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Odd Man Out by Sarah Ellis
  • Kanada by Eva Wiseman
  • Rex Zero and the End of the World by Tim Wynne-Jones

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I, Nadja, and Other Poems by Susan Elmslie

Waiting Out the War (p. 125-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • When Grownups Play at War: A Child's Memoir by Ilona Flutsztejn-Gruda and Sarah Cummins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le truc de l'oncle Henry by Alain Gagnon
  • Au nord de nos vies by Jean Désy
  • Le mort d'un chef by François Chabot

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada’s Left History by Ian McKay
  • Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism. 40th Anniversary Edition by George P. Grant

Changing Room (p. 129-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rooms of Our Own by Susan Gubar

Paving the Road (p. 131-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast by Jan Hare and Jean Barman

Lieux et paysages (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lieux propices : L’énonciation des lieux / Le lieu de l’énonciation dans les contextes francophones interculturels by Adelaide Russo and Simon Harel
  • Paysages de désir: J.R. Léveillé : réflexions critiques by Rosmarin Heidenreich

Suffer the Children (p. 133-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Safe House by James Heneghan
  • 1212: Year of the Journey by Kathleen McDonnell

Words and Music (p. 134-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hello ... Hello by Karen Hines
  • Birthright by Constance Lindsay Skinner and Joan Bryans
  • Enoch Arden in the Hope Shelter by Judith Thompson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hitch by Matthew Holmes
  • Fathom by Tim Bowling
  • The Aviary by Miranda Pearson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Isis Trilogy by Monica Hughes

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston
  • Consolation by Michael Redhill

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Most Wanted by Vivette J. Kady

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A House by the Sea by Sikeena Karmali

Interpreting Masks (p. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Masks of Judith Thompson by Ric Knowles

Book(s) Reviewed

  • All of Baba's Children by Myrna Kostash
  • Kobzar's Children: A Century of Untold Ukrainian Stories by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Capricieuse (1855) : poupe et proue. Les relations France-Québec (1760-1914) by Yvan Lamonde and Didier Poton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Salt Fish & Shmattes: A History of the Jews in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1770 by Robin McGrath
  • The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman by Ruth Panofsky

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Penguin Book of Contemporary Canadian Women's Short Stories by Lisa Moore

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories by Kwai-Yun Li
  • Pink Icing by Pamela Mordecai
  • Zero Gravity by Sharon English

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr by Gerta Moray
  • The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters by Evelyn Walters

Artists in Letters (p. 154-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth by Linda Morra

Feminine Hygiene (p. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Caught: Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945 by Tamara Myers
  • Types of Canadian Women. Volume II by K.I. Press

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Carnets de déraison by Guylaine Tousignant
  • Ainsi font-elles toutes by Clara Ness

Book(s) Reviewed

  • '€˜Call Me Hank': A Stó:lõ Man’s Reflections on Logging, Living, and Growing Old by Henry Pennier, Keith Thor Carlson and Kristina Fagan

Personal Narratives (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions by Teresa Godwin Phelps
  • Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel by Wendy Roy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Consensual Genocide by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • Gambolling with the Divine by Rienzi Cruz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mordecai Richler : Le dernier des francs-tireurs by Michael Posner and Hélène Rioux

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution: The Historical Status of Animals by Rod Preece
  • States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century by Tina Loo
  • All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950 by Robert E. Kohler

Being at Home (p. 167-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century by Harold Rhenisch

Book(s) Reviewed

  • This is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada by Noah Richler

Winds of Change (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Something New in the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada by Lorna Roth

Made from Stardust (p. 172-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology by Stan Rowe and Don Kerr

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dry by Barbara Sapergia
  • The Joining of Dingo Radish by Rob Harasymchuk
  • The Nettle Spinner by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian Literature by Joanne Saul
  • Diamond Grill by Fred Wah

Chaucer’s Dreams (p. 177-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chaucer's Queer Poetics: Rereading the Dream Trio by Susan Schibanoff

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bang Crunch by Neil Smith

Writing, Coupling (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship by Marjorie Stone and Judith Thompson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement by Michael Strangelove

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Write On! Theatre Saskatchewan Anthology by Theatre Saskatchewan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • De plume et d'audace. Femmes de la Nouvelle-France by Chantal Théry
  • Un passé recomposé by Therese Renaud

Going Beyond Prose (p. 185-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Red Lacquered Chopsticks by Betty Warrington-Kearsley
  • Newer Lies by Dan Jalowica
  • Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006 by George Bowering

Book(s) Reviewed

  • My Wedding Dress by Susan Whelehan and Anne Laurel Carter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ancient Thunder by Leo Yerxa
  • Napi Goes to the Mountain by Antonio Ramá­rez, Elisa Amado and Domi
  • Tarde de invierno/Winter Afternoon by Jorge Lujàn, Elisa Amado and Mandana Sadat