Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jacob's Prayer by Lorne Dufour
  • Porcupines and China Dolls by Robert Arthur Alexie

Les Vies plurielles (p. 111-112)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Carnet de désaccords by Natalie Stephens
  • Fenêtre sur vie by Nicole Balvay-Haillot

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wait Until Late Afternoon by David Bateman and Hiromi Goto
  • Sybil Unrest by Rita Wong and Larissa Lai
  • Automaton Biographies by Larissa Lai

La Quête (p. 114-115)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ombres d'amours en rêve by Corinne Bayle
  • Joies by Anne Guilbault
  • La Bohème by François Moreau

Damsels in Distress (p. 115-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Silver Salts by Mark Blagrave
  • Love Minus Zero by Lori Hahnel

Genre Blur (p. 116-117)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Breaking Lorca by Giles Blunt
  • Snow Job by William Deverell
  • Homicide Related by Nora McClintock

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Blackouts by Craig Boyko
  • Buying Cigarettes for the Dog by Stuart Ross

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst

War’s Children (p. 120-121)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Off to War by Deborah Ellis
  • Tell No One Who You Are by Walter Buchignani

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Between Languages and Cultures by Rosemary Chapman

Words and the World (p. 122-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In Bed With the Word by Daniel Coleman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Generation A by Douglas Coupland

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism and Its Influences by Branko Grojup
  • Northrop Frye: Selected Letters, 1934-1991 by Robert D. Denham

Canadian Idealists? (p. 126-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Transformations by James Doyle
  • Pale Blue Hope by Ronald Poulton and Valerie Raoul

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Simon Fraser by Stephen Hume
  • Fort St. James and New Caledonia by Marie Elliott

Women’s Pages (p. 130-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Woman's Page by Janice Fiamengo
  • Editing Modernity by Dean J. Irvine

Staying Power (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The March Hare Anthology by Adrian Fowler
  • A Little Distillery in Nowgong by Ashok Mathur

Embranchements (p. 133-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La cathédrale sur l'océan by Vittorio Frigerio

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Texture of Identity by Martin Genetsch

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le maître du Château rouge by Bertrand Gervais
  • Le mort de J. R. Berger by Sylvano Santini and Bertrand Gervais

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sleeping Buddha by Hamida Ghafour
  • The Evergreen Country by Thuong Vuong-Riddick
  • Not Yet by Wayson Choy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Entre lieux et mémoire by Joseph-Yvon Thériault, Anne Gilbert and Michel Bock

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones
  • Watching Jimmy by Nancy Hartry

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Man Game by Lee Henderson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An English Canadian Poetics by Robert Hogg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Culprits by Robert Hough
  • Anna's Shadow by David Manicom

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kröller and Coral Ann Howells

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Revenant by Tristan Hughes
  • The Order of Good Cheer by Bill Gaston

Beastly Trade (p. 147-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British-Atlantic World, 1770-1850 by Kevin Hutchings
  • The Bedside Book of Beasts by Graeme Gibson

One Good Step (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Step Over the Line by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lean-To by Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen
  • Love Outlandish by Barry Dempster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Belles é‰trangères by Jane Koustas

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tant de vie s'égare by Andrée Lacelle
  • La Lumière et L'heure by Andrée Lacelle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Énigme du retour by Dany Laferrière

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Un coeur rouge dans la glace by Robert Lalonde

Ladies First (p. 157-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Factory Voice by Jeanette Lynes
  • The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sombre d'ailleurs by Frédérick Durand
  • Miettes de moi by Joanne Morency
  • La lune n'aura pas de chandelier by Daniel LeBlanc-Poirier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Roman 41 by Monique Le Maner
  • C'était écrit by Eileen Lohka

Book(s) Reviewed

  • When She's Gone by Steve Lundin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Border Songs by Jim Lynch

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Uashat by Gérard Bouchard
  • Dans la tourmente afghane by Jocelyne Mallet-Parent

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Signatures of the Past by Caroline De Wagter and Marc Maufort
  • Developing Nation by Bruce Barton

Method and Material (p. 167-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Wrong World by Gregory Betts
  • Reasoning Otherwise by Ian McKay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
  • Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Cultural Studies by Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman and Gail Faurschou

Travelling Bodies (p. 172-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Valmiki's Daughter by Shani Mootoo
  • No Place Strange by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trombes by Pierre Ouellet
  • Les Verbes Majeurs by Pierre Nepveu

Tasting this Place (p. 175-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poems for a Small Park by E.D. Blodgett
  • In a Boston Night by Sasenarine Persaud
  • is a door by Fred Wah
  • Red Nest by Gillian Jerome

Souvenirs inédits (p. 176-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trafiquante de lumière by Gilles Lacombe
  • Les plages à la laine de chevreau by Gilles Lacombe
  • Une phrase lente de violoncelle by Anthony Phelps

Enlightening Essays (p. 177-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mary di Michele: Essays on Her Works by Joseph Pivato
  • The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy by Gerald Lynch, Shoshannah Ganz and Josephine Kealey

La Nature du roman (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'apprentissage by Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska
  • Champagne by Monique Proulx

Language Movements (p. 180-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rental Van by Clint Burnham
  • yes / no by Dennis Lee
  • Expressway by Sina Queyras
  • Mosaic Orpheus by Peter Dale Scott

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old by David Rampton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mon nom by Normand de Bellefeuille
  • Pas by Diane Régimbald

Vies précaires (p. 184-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les espions de Dieu by André Roy
  • Le Livre Des Absents by Hugues Corriveau
  • Agonie d'André Breton by Jean Yves Collette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ox by Christopher Patton
  • More to Keep Us Warm by Jacob Scheier
  • Riding Backwards on Dragon by Kim Goldberg
  • I Will Ask for Birds by Kelly Parson
  • Duet for Wings and Earth by Barbara Colebrook Peace

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gabriel's Beach by Neil McLeod
  • Little Hunger by Phillip Kevin Paul
  • Fifth World Drum by Anna Mraie Sewell
  • Kipocihkâƒn by Gregory Scofield

Strange Weather (p. 189-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wonderfull by William Neil Scott
  • Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ordinary Lives by Josef Skvorecky

Context Is All (p. 191-193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Margaret Atwood by Fiona Tolan

Pièces détachées (p. 193-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Suite informe by Mathieu Bergeron
  • Autoportraits-robots by Thierry Dimanche
  • L'Arbre chorégraphe by Larry Tremblay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Holding Still For As Long As Possible by Zoe Whittall

Connect the Strands (p. 195-196)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Atom Egoyan by Emma Wilson

Acts of Survival (p. 196-197)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Myth and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction: From Atwood to Morrisson by Sharon R. Wilson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Orphan Boy by Tolowa M. Mollel
  • A Wizard in Love by Mireille Levert
  • Pounce De Leon by Tim Wynne-Jones