Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou and Alan Filewood

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mud Girl by Alison Acheson
  • Mundy Pond by Roger Maunder

Tatologie (p. 115-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bossalo by François Barcelo
  • Bonheur Tatol by François Barcelo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Fire by Miriam Nichols and Robin Blaser
  • The Holy Forest by Miriam Nichols and Robin Blaser

A Bone to Pick (p. 118-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Bone Sharps by Tim Bowling

Di Brandt’s World (p. 119-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • So This Is the World & Here I Am in It by Di Brandt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Forgotten Highways by Nicky Brink and Stephen R. Bown

Book(s) Reviewed

  • C'est arrivé un jour! by Jean-Claude Castex

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sexing the Maple by Richard A. Cavell and Peter Dickinson
  • Seminal by Billeh Nickerson and John Barton
  • Loving in Verse by Stephen Guy-Bray

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cinematic Howling by Hoi F. Cheu

Epic Laurence (p. 125-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination by Paul Comeau

Canadian Lives (p. 126-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionary of Canadian Biography by Réal Bélanger and Ramsay Cook

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Red Ledger by Mary Dalton
  • The Enchanted House by Beth Janzen
  • Pink Purse Girl by Susan L. Helwig

Book(s) Reviewed

  • National Visions, National Blindness by Leslie Dawn

L’épopée intime (p. 131-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Un autre soleil by Patricia Léry and Joël Des Rosiers
  • Caïques by Joël Des Rosiers

Fractured Families (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Flannigans by M. T. Dohaney
  • The Silent Time by Paul Rowe
  • Belle Falls by Sherri Vanderveen

Family Matters (p. 133-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Requiem for My Brother by Marian Botsford Fraser
  • The Storyteller by Anna Porter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Failles de l'Amérique by Bertrand Gervais
  • Bord-de-l'eau by André Pronovost

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth by Glen Robert Gill

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Extraordinary Garden by Francois Gravel and Sheila Fischman

Ghosting the NWT (p. 139-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay

Seeing Things (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Payback by James Heneghan
  • How it Happened in Peach Hill by Marthe Jocelyn
  • The Milk Chicken Bomb by Andrew Wedderburn

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

Making Connections (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane by Polly Horvath
  • Rex Zeo by Tim Wynne-Jones

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Polite Revolution by John Ibbitson
  • Intent for a Nation by Michael Byers
  • The Other Quiet Revolution by José E. Igartua

Spies and Romances (p. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Halifax Connection by Marie Jakober

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mothering Her Self by Verena Klein
  • Swamp Angel by Li-Ping Geng and Ethel Wilson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hard Passage by Arthur Kroeger
  • Aksel Sandemose and Canada by Aksel Sandemose and Christopher S. Hale

Beauté patibulaire (p. 151-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Inventaire de succession by Robert Laliberté
  • Lueurs de l'aube by Hélène Leclerc
  • Douleureuse aurore by Christian Milat
  • Pour ce qui reste de la beauté du monde by Pierre Raphaël Pelletier
  • Les Morts de l'infini by Joël Pourbaix

Hot War to Cold War (p. 153-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Radiance by Shaena Lambert

All-Canadian Drama (p. 154-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • George F. Walker by Harry Lane
  • Anthology of Québec Women's Plays by Louise H. Forsyth

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Alcool des jours et des feuilles by Yves Laroche
  • L'Hiver qui court suivi de La Banlieue du coeur des villes by Robert Giroux
  • Les Ombres lasses by Jean-Marc Lefebvre
  • Ambre et lumière by Mona Latif-Ghattas

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Long Journey of a Forgotten People by Ute Lischke and David T. McNab

First Contact (p. 159-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact by John Sutton Lutz

Theory and Practice (p. 161-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Space and the Geographies of Theatre by Michael McKinnie
  • Environmental and Site-Specific Theatre by Andrew Houston

Achieving Greatness (p. 163-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Great Canadian Film Directors by George Melnyk

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Unfortunate Marriage of Azeb Yitades by Nega Mezlekia
  • Soucouyant by David Chariandy
  • The Assassin's Song by M. G. Vassanji

Suspended Animation (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie and Michael Peterman
  • Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Dropped Glove in Regent Street by Don Coles
  • Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat

Alpha Beta Gammas (p. 171-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Alphabet Game by bp Nichol, Lori Emerson and Darren Wershler-Henry

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
  • Certainty by Madeleine Thien

Icare et la poésie (p. 174-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Inoubliable by Fernand Ouellette
  • La Déchirure des mots by Andrea Moorhead and Jean Gagnon
  • La Fatigue et la cendre by Michel Leclerc

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sisters in Two Worlds by Hugh Brewster and Michael Peterman
  • Measuring Mother Earth by Heather Robertson
  • Hunting for Empire by Greg Gillespie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Culture et littérature francophones de la Colombie-Britannique by Guy Poirier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Theatre in British Columbia by Ginny Ratsoy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Obsessions by Aurélie Resch
  • Au café ou ailleurs by Donald Alarie
  • Au jour le jour by Donald Alarie
  • La Cloche de verre by Pierre Gobeil

Drames en série (p. 180-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Sept Vies de François Olivier by Martine Richard
  • Le vent déporte les enfants austères by Hélène Lépine

Animate Perceptions (p. 183-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Essential George Johnston by Monika Lee and Robyn Sarah
  • Actualities by Monica Kidd
  • Time's Covenant by Eric Ormsby

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Violent Woman as a New Theatrical Character Type by Shelley Scott
  • City Stages by Michael McKinnie

Time Out of Joint? (p. 187-188)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Theorizing Historical Consciousness by Peter Seixas

Suzuki on Suzuki (p. 188-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • David Suzuki by David Suzuki

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Faire société by Joseph Yvon Thériault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After Green Gables by Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul G. Tiessen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Random Illuminations by Eleanor Wachtel

Globality in Comics (p. 193-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware
  • Shenzhen by Guy Delisle

the edge of knowing (p. 194-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Obon by Terry Watada
  • Decked and Dancing by Christine Smart
  • Loving the Alien by Laurie Kruk

Dwelling (p. 195-196)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Green Heart of the Tree by A.S. Woudstra
  • Broken Vessel by Harry Thurston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Speaking in the Past Tense by Herb Wyile

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York