Book Reviews

Total Recall (p. 122-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Book of Emma by Zilpha Ellis and Marie-Célie Agnant
  • Return to Arcadia by H. Nigel Thomas

Forest Memoirs (p. 123-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What's All This Got to do with the Price of 2 x 4's? by Mike Apsey, Ken Drushka and Matt Hughes
  • Blue Valley: An Ecological Memoir by Luanne Armstrong

Core Storytelling (p. 124-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit by Jo-ann Archibald / Q'um Q'um Xiiem
  • The Red Indians: An Episodic, Informal Collection of Tales from the History of Aboriginal People's Struggles in Canada by Peter Kulchyski

Omnia vanitas (p. 126-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les gens fidèles ne font pas les nouvelles by Nadine Bismuth
  • Scrapbook by Nadine Bismuth
  • Histoires de s'entendre by Suzanne Jacob
  • L'espèce fabulatrice by Nancy Huston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trail of the Spirit: The Mysteries of Medicine Power Revealed by George Blondin
  • Tales from Moccasin Avenue: An Anthology of Native Stories by Morgan Stafford O'Neal

La mémoire blanche (p. 129-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pierre Blanche by Daniel Canty and Stephanie Bolster
  • M'accompage by Marc André Brouillette
  • Arbres lumière by Michel Pleau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literture by Clare Bradford

Global Communities? (p. 131-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts by William D. Coleman and Diana Brydon
  • A Report on the Afterlife of Culture by Stephen Henighan

Glorious Lives (p. 133-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Glorious and Terrible Life with You: Selected Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939 by Margaret Burgess

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Becoming My Mother's Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal by Erika Gottlieb
  • Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood by Cathy Stonehouse, Shannon Cowan and Fiona Tinwei Lam

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bow Grip by Ivan E. Coyote
  • The Famished Lover by Alan Cumyn

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand: Oral Traditions of the Hul'q'umi'num' Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island by Beryl Mildred Cryer and Chris Arnett
  • Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective by Janice Acoose, Lisa Brooks, Tol Foster, LeAnne Howe, Daniel Heath Justice, Philip Carroll Morgan, Kimberley Roppolo, Christopher B. Teuton, Sean Teuton and Robert Warrior

Trait d’union (p. 139-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le chant du Dire-Dire by Daniel Danis
  • Assoiffés by Wajdi Mouawad
  • Floes et D'Alaska (suite Nordique) by Sébastien Harrisson
  • Le Long de la Principale by Steve Leplante
  • Souliers de Sable by Suzanne Lebeau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Daaku by Ranj Dhaliwal

Holocaust Anonymous (p. 142-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors by Bernice Eisenstein

Reverberating Verse (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Echoing Years by John Ennis, Stephanie McKenzie and Randall Maggs

Literary Exchanges (p. 144-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In Translation by Jane Everett
  • A Secret Between Us by Donald Winkler and Daniel Poliquin

Deficit Disorders (p. 146-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Courage, My Love by Reg Johanson
  • accrete or crumble by Natalie Simpson
  • All Things Said & Done by Marita Dachsel
  • Surplus by Roger Farr

L’écho humain (p. 148-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'autre corps by Michèle Gagné
  • Ce tremblement singulier by Agnès Riverin
  • L'oe“il au ralenti by Denise Desautels

More About Anne (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Looking for Anne by Irene Gammel

Capturing CanLit (p. 150-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Literature by Faye Hammill

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars by Faye Hammill

In the City (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Girls Fall Down by Maggie Helwig
  • The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Would You by Marthe Jocelyn
  • My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath

Fluidity on Ice (p. 155-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys

Voracious for Life (p. 157-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong
  • Watermelon Syrup by Annie Jacobson, Jane Finlay-Young and Di Brandt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beyond Window-Dressing?: Canadian Children's Fantasy at the Millennium by K.V. Johansen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le retour de Lorenzo Sánchez by Sergio Kokis
  • Ragueneau le Sauvage by Pierre Manseau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Inquisitoriale by Michaël La Chance
  • Le souffle du passage by Denise Brassard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Making the Scene by Louise Ladouceur

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Je suis un écrivain japonais by Dany Laferrière

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Expressions in Canadian Native Studies by Ron F. LaLiberte, et. al

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Douze bêtes aux chemises de l'€™homme by Tania Langlais
  • La clarté s'installe comme un chat by Tania Langlais

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Debout en clair-obscur by Laurette Lévy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Extended Mind by Robert K. Logan

A Very Mixed Bag (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Given by Daphne Marlatt
  • Ragtime for Beginners by Moberley Luger
  • Orphic Politics by Tim Lilburn

Circle of Abuse (p. 170-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Writing Circle by Rozena Maart

A Human Wilderness (p. 172-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park by I.S. MacLaren

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Why Are You So Sad? by David McFadden and Stuart Ross
  • The Incorrection by George McWhirter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • There by Roy Miki
  • Museum Absconditum by Robert Moore
  • Come-by-Chance by Carl Leggo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sentinel by A. F. Moritz
  • Sparrow Talk by Raymond Souster

Time Changes (p. 178-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Along a Snake Fence Riding by Douglas Barbour
  • Finding Ft. George by Rob Budde
  • The Shovel by Colin Browne

Controversial Donne (p. 180-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Conceit by Mary Novik

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Autofiction et dévoilement de soi by Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Vertigo du tremble by Laurent Poliquin
  • Au lieu de l'abandon / Mes êtres by Patrick Lafontaine
  • Fruits et frontières by Gilles Cyr

Échappatoires (p. 185-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Impostures by Dany Rossignol
  • Parce que chanter c'est trop dur by Michèle Vinet
  • Moi, vous savez, les génuflexions et les salamalecs... by Claude Boisvert
  • Plagiste by Maggie Blot

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Heureux les nomades et autres reportages, 1940-1945 by François Ricard, Antoine Boisclair and Gabrielle Roy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Triumph of Citizenship by Patricia E. Roy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing by Deena Rymhs
  • Taxidermic Signs: Reconstructing Aboriginality by Pauline Wakeham
  • Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal: Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada by Julia V. Emberley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Robert Soulières by Noëlle Sorin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Robertson Davies: Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading by Michael Peterman
  • Robertson Davies: Selected Works on the Art of Writing by Michael Peterman

Searching for Truth (p. 194-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Palace of the End by Judith Thompson
  • Silverwing by Kim Selody
  • Dreams by Wajdi Mouawad and Linda Gaboriau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan

Old New Dimensions (p. 198-199)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tesseracts Ten by Edo van Belkom and Tim Blackmore
  • Tesseracts Eleven by Cory Doctorow and Holly Phillips

Crossing Borders (p. 200-200)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Yellowknife by Steve Zipp