Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Cardinal Divide by Stephen Legault
  • The Outlander by Gil Adamson

Social Commentaries (p. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Trigger by Carmen Aguirre
  • Shatter by Trina Davies
  • Benevolence by Morris Panych

Sleight of Land (p. 134-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The City Man by Howard Akler
  • The Drowned Lands by Stan Dragland

Privileged Access (p. 136-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • New Readings of Yiddish Montreal by Norman Ravvin, Sherry Simon and Pierre Anctil

Start to Finish (p. 136-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot
  • The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci

Women in the Market (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Silent Revolution? Gender and Wealth in English Canada 1860-1930 by Peter Baskerville

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Peau des doigts by Katia Belkhodja
  • La Contrainte de l’inachevé by Anthony Phelps

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Obsessed with Language by Chantal Bouchard and Luise Von Flotow

Alberta, Bound (p. 142-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sweet Fuels by Erin Knight
  • It's Hard Being Queen by Jeanette Lynes
  • The Book Collector by Tim Bowling
  • Noise From the Laundry by Weyman Chan
  • First Mountain by Paulette Dubé

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Passion for this Earth: Writers, Scientists & Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature & the Environment by Michelle Benjamin
  • The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture by Tim Bowling

Potential Energy (p. 145-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Born With A Tooth by Joseph Boyden
  • Mother Superior by Saleema Nawaz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le fédéralisme asymétrique et les minorités linguistiques et nationales by Linda Cardinal

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are by Andrew Cohen

Love and Liminality (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women by Méira Cook
  • Women Between: Construction of Self in the Work of Sharon Butala, Aganetha Dyck, Mary Meigs, and Mary Pratt by Verna Reid

From Blood to Ideas (p. 150-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • By Word of Mouth: The Poetry of Dennis Cooley by Dennis Cooley and Nicole Markotic
  • The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane by M. Travis Lane and Jeanette Lynes
  • All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek by Louis Dudek and Karis Shearer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Pressing Concerns (p. 153-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everywhere Being is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert Bringhurst
  • Gaspereau Gloriatur: Liber Beati Anni Decimi. Volume II: Prose by Michael deBeyer, Kate Kennedy and Andrew Steeves

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa
  • Big White Knuckles by Brian Tucker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dance Hall Road by Marion Douglas

Short Frictions (p. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • At the Bottom of the Sky by Peter Dubé
  • Six Ways to Sunday by Christian McPherson
  • Wildness Lies in Wait by Stirling Noh
  • Long Story Short by Elyse Friedman

La vie comme un fil (p. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'été funambule by Louise Dupré

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Well and Other Stories by Nick Faragher
  • The Chinese Knot and Other Stories by Lien Chao
  • We Are Not in Pakistan by Shauna Singh Baldwin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978 by Janet Friskney

Legitimate Children (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Teaching Life Writing Texts by Craig Howes and Miriam Fuchs

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rewriting Apocalypse in Canadian Fiction by Marlene Goldman

A Dramatic Life (p. 167-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock by Sherrill Grace

Stratterfly (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Decline of the Hollywood Empire by Hervé Fischer and Rhonda Mullins
  • Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre by Mel Atkey
  • Once Upon a Time in Bollywood by Jolly Gurbir, Zenia Wadhwani and Deborah Barretto

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Esprit de sel by Maurice Henrie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Louise Dupré : le Québec au féminin by Anne-Marie Jézéquel

Hors-solitudes (p. 171-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In Other Words: New English Writing from Quebec by Claude Lalumière
  • Migrance comparée / Comparing Migrations: Les littératures du Canada et du Québec / The Literatures of Canada and Québec by Marie Carrière and Catherine Khordoc

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Désaveuglé. Parcours de l'oeuvre de Robert Melançon by Yves Laroche

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Karma et coups de foudre by Claude Le Bouthillier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • "A Happy Holiday": English Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930 by Cecilia Morgan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Going Home by Ken Norris
  • The Commons by Stephen Collis
  • The Dream World by Alison Pick

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literary Environments: Canada and the Old World by Britta Olinder

Book(s) Reviewed

  • We Were Not the Savages: Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations by Daniel N. Paul
  • Weasel Tail: Stories Told by Joe Crowshoe Sr. (Aapohsoy'yiis), a Peigan-Blackfoot elder by Michael Ross and Joe Crowshoe Sr.

Canadian Forests (p. 180-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada by Stephen J. Pyne
  • The Eternal Forest by George Stanley Godwin and Robert S. Thomson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Visions poétiques de Marie-Claire Blais by Janine Ricouart and Roseanna L. Dufault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mercredi soir au Bout du monde by Hélène Rioux
  • Un café dans le Sud by Daniel Castillo Durante
  • Horizons navigables by Andrée Laurier
  • Île était une fois by Pierre Chatillon

Culinary Memoirs (p. 184-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School by Denise Roig
  • Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825-1949 by Elizabeth Driver

Two Literary Lives (p. 185-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic by Val Ross
  • Pierre Berton: A Biography by A. B. McKillop

Comics Journalism (p. 187-188)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Palestine: The Special Edition by Joe Sacco

Traduire la poésie (p. 188-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La prison magique by Charlotte Melançon
  • Le tamis des jours by Robyn Sarah and Marie Frankland

A Walking Review (p. 189-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Late Nights With Wild Cowboys by Johanna Skibsrud
  • Cypress by Barbara Klar
  • Nightmarker by Meredith Quartermain
  • Borrowed Rooms by Barbara Pelman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Complete Writings by Nora Foster Stovel
  • Adventures in the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis

Rebellious Causes (p. 192-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vimy by Vern Thiessen
  • Carmela's Table by Vittorio Rossi
  • The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Aux chevaliers du noe“ud coulant by Rémi Tremblay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English Canadian Elegy by Priscila Uppal

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Antonine Maillet. 50 ans d'écriture by Robert Viau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets by Zachariah Wells
  • Looking for Lucy by Wanda Campbell
  • South of North: Images of Canada by Richard Outram, Anne Corkett, Rosemary Kilbourn and Thoreau MacDonald