Editorial

Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les ensauvagés by Jean-Pierre April
  • La petite musique du clown by Monique Genuist

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada by Irene Bloemraad

On the Warpath (p. 122-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cul-de-sac by Daniel MacIvor
  • Capture Me by Judith Thompson
  • The Optimists by Morwyn Brebner
  • In the Eyes of Stone Dogs by Daniel Danis and Linda Gaboriau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Second Nature: The Man-Made World of Idealism, Technology and Power by Dan Bruiger
  • Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction by Sherryl Vint

Book(s) Reviewed

  • André Brochu, écrivain by Micheline Cambron and Laurent Mailhot

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Continental Drifter by Dave Cameron
  • 3,000 Miles by Jason Schneider
  • Neil Young Nation by Kevin Chong

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Concise Köchel by Normand Chaurette
  • The Leisure Society by François Archambault and Bobby Theodore
  • The Real McCoy by Andrew Moodie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Heart Matters: A Memoir by Adrienne Clarkson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Good Death by Gil Courtemanche and Wayne Grady
  • Short Stuff: New English Stories from Quebec by Claude Lalumière

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Painter's Wife by Monique Durand and Sheila Fischman
  • The Perfect Circle by Pascale Quiviger and Sheila Fischman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization by Wayne Ellwood
  • Converging Disensus, Cultural Transformations and Corporate Cultures: Canada and the Americas by Patrick Imbert
  • What is a Canadian? Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses by Irvin Studin

50 Years Preparing (p. 137-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968 by John English

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'é‰chelle de l'olivier by Jocelyne Felx
  • Les Abattoirs de la grâce by Fernand Durepos
  • Comment serrer la main de ce mort-là by Francois Hebert

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 13 Ways of Listening to a Stranger: The Best Stories of Keath Fraser by Keath Fraser
  • The Work of Mercy by Stephen Guppy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963 by Northrop Frye
  • Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye and Robert D. Denham

Removing Masks (p. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gargoyles by Bill Gaston
  • The Communist's Daughter by Dennis Bock

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sundog Season by John Geddes
  • Tag Alder Tales by Charlie Smith
  • Outcrops: Northeastern Ontario Short Stories by Laurence Steven

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La bonbonnière by Hans-JáŒrgen Greif and Guy Boivin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La querelle du régionalisme au Québec (1904-1931). Vers l’autonomisation de la littérature québécoise by Annette Hayward

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Afterlands by Steven Heighton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Saltsea: A Novel by David Helwig

Troubling Survival (p. 151-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
  • The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Suites sociologiques by Simon Laflamme
  • Jean Marc Dalpé : Ouvrier d’un dire by Stéphanie Nutting and François Paré

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Cour des contes by Marc Vaillancourt
  • Le Tribunal parallèle by André Lamontagne

Étre ou Paraître (p. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • à€ grandes gorgées de poussière by Myriam Legault
  • Le vertige de David by Diane Jacob
  • Chrysalide by Aude

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism by Xiaoping Li

Ways of Seeing (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn by Tim Lilburn and Alison Calder
  • Born to Slow Horses by Kamau Brathwaite

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unexpected Affinities: Reading across Cultures by Zhang Longxi

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beyond the Blue by Andrea MacPherson

Missing Persons (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo
  • Delible by Anne Stone

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Half in the Sun: Anthology of Mennonite Writing by Elsie Neufeld
  • New American Writing 23 by Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff
  • The Journey Prize Stories 18 by Steven Galloway, Zsuzsi Gartner and Annabel Lyon

The Show Must Go (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fallen Empires: Lost Theatres of Edmonton, 1881- 1914 by John Orrell

Antiphonal Milton (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Milton and the Climates of Reading: Essays by Balachandra Rajan by Elizabeth Sauer and Balachandra Rajan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma by Valerie Raoul, Connie Canam, Angela D. Henderson and Carla Paterson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists by Raquel Rivera and Jirina Morton
  • The Summer of Marco Polo by Lynn Manuel and Kasia Charko
  • In My Backyard by Margriet Ruurs and Ron Broda

Communautés (p. 174-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Acte de création by Paul Savoie
  • Le goût de l'autre by Guy Cloutier

Not Enough Culture (p. 175-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Cultural Peosis: Essays on Canadian Culture by Garry Sherbert, Annie Gérin and Sheila Petty

Personals (p. 177-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Taqsim by Zaid Shlah
  • Frames of Silence by Allan Brown
  • The Burning Alphabet by Barry Dempster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Quick by Anne Simpson
  • songs for the dancing chicken by Emily Schultz
  • High Speed Through Shoaling Water by Tom Wayman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reaching for the Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin by David Solway
  • Something Blue and Flying Upwards: New and Selected Poem by Roger Nash
  • A Dirge for My Daughter: Poems by Frederick Philip Grove and Klaus Martens

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Winnipeg Connection: Writing Lives at Mid-Century by Birk Sproxton
  • The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto by Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio and Jonny Dovercourt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists by H. Nigel Thomas

Uncomplicated Luck (p. 185-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Sky Black With Crows by Alice Walsh
  • Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks

Intimate Details (p. 188-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Foot in Heaven by David Waltner-Toews
  • Lines of Truth and Conversation by Joan Alexander

Colonial Spectacle (p. 190-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France by Jerry Wasserman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Airstream by Patricia Young
  • World Body: Selected Stories: 4 by Clark Blaise

Of Note (p. 193-193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kisses in the Whiskey by Peter Trower

Of Note (p. 193-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Margaret Laurence: A Gift of Grace: A Spiritual Biography by Noelle Broughton