Book Reviews

Review Essay (p. 103-107)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mordecai by Charles Foran
  • Mordecai Richler by Ada Craniford
  • Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain by Reinhold Kramer
  • Mordecai Richler by M. G. Vassanji
  • The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler: An Oral Biography by Reinhold Kramer

Community Spaces (p. 107-108)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Inside Chinatown by Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong

High Notes (p. 108-110)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Walking on Water by Jancis M. Andrews
  • The Old Familiar by Alex Hawley
  • The Grumpy Man by Raymond Fraser

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Sables Mouvants by Hubert Aquin
  • L'ɉcho de nos classiques by Agnès Whitfield

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I Am Here and Not Not-There by Margaret Avison
  • A Kind of Perseverance by Margaret Avison

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Pieds Sales by Edem Awumey

Lyric Translations (p. 116-117)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • God of Missed Connections by Elizabeth Bachinsky
  • Joy is so Exhausting by Susan Holbrook
  • m-Talá by Chus Pato
  • The Rose Concordance by Angela Carr

Collecting Bodies (p. 118-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Operation Rimbaud by Patricia Claxton and Jacques Godbout
  • Still Waters by John Moss
  • Looking for Cardenio by Jean Rae Baxter
  • Luck by Dave Carpenter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Réformistes by Éric Bédard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Répit by Paul Bélanger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poème du décours by Robert Berrouët-Oriol
  • Prière à Blanc by Michael Deslisle

Arcadia Under Glass (p. 122-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Animals of My Own Kind by Harry Thurston
  • Boxing the Compass by Richard Greene
  • Penned by Simon Reader, Stephanie Bolster and Katia Grubisic

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stories of the Middle Space by Deborah Bowen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • À pieds joints dans les flaques by Suzanne Lamarre
  • Fragments de ciel: Haiku by Carmen Leblanc
  • Lettre à Saint-Expuéry by Katie Canciani

Voix du fleuve (p. 126-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pointe Maligne. L'infiniment oubliée by Nicole V. Champeau

Quelques décalages (p. 127-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Carpe Diem by Francine Chicoine, Terry Ann Carter and Marco Fraticelli
  • Roc & rail by Mansel Robinson
  • Le Groupe des huit by Judith-Louise Thibault
  • Décalage by Patrice Desbiens

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pour de Vrai, Pour de Faux by Francine D'Amour

Storied Images (p. 130-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Blackfoot War Art by L. James Dempsey
  • Long Powwow Nights by Pam Aleekuk and David Bouchard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nid de brindilles by Carmen Leblanc
  • Fragment d'eau by Pauline Dugas

Growing Pains (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • i.d. by Kate Scowen and Peter Mitchell
  • We Want You to Know by Deborah Ellis

Exorcising Demons (p. 133-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Climbing Patrick's Mountain by Des Kennedy
  • Open Arms by Marina Endicott

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marian and the Major by Christl Verduyn

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mary-Jane la tueuse by Sylvia Maria Filion

Voir le visible (p. 136-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le silence est une voie navigable by Catherine Fortin
  • Les Rives claires by Michel Létourneau
  • Lointain écho de la petite histoire by Olivier Labonté and Philippe Haeck

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'isle silencieuse by Maurice Gagnon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'armée de terre cuite by Gary Geddes
  • Nisan by John Mikhail Asfour

Cutthroat Fashion (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Zero History by William Gibson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Valley Sutra by Kuldip Gill
  • Enter the Chrysanthemum by Fiona Tinwei Lam
  • Fish Bones by Gillian Sze
  • Reticent Bodies by Moez Surani

Living On (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture by Barbara Thomson Godard and Smaro Kamboureli

Anti-Heroes All (p. 144-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • On the Art of Being Canadian by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adrift on the Ark by Margaret Thompson
  • Grass, Sky, Song by Trevor Herriot

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Habiter la distance: Études en marge de la distance habitée by Guy Poirier and Lucie Hotte

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sillons by Collectif Collectif

Words and Worlds (p. 148-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After the 6ix O'Clock News by Kemeny Babineau
  • Imaginary Maps by Darrell Epp
  • Other People's Lives by Chris Hutchinson
  • Passenger Flight by Brian Campbell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Life Consumed by Diane Sims
  • Broad is the Way by Margaret Norquay
  • Mud Sweat and Tears by Bud Ings

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ecrire le réel by Naïm Kattan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Oeil de Marquise by Monique Larue

Book(s) Reviewed

  • On Diary by Jeremy D. Popkin and Julie Rak

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Eva's Threepenny Theatre by Andrew Steinmetz
  • Century by Ray Smith

Risky Business (p. 154-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
  • Burmese Lessons by Karen Connelly

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Gull by Daphne Marlatt

Throats & Claws (p. 157-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Grace Must Wander by Stephanie McKenzie
  • SLANT Room by Michael Eden Reynolds
  • The New Blue Distance by Jeanette Lynes

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Obituary of Light by Susan Musgrave
  • Too Bad by Robert Kroetsch
  • Memory's Daughter by Alice Major

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Imaginaire sans frontières: Les lieux de l'écriture, l'écriture des lieux by Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Yellow by Antonio Porta

Book(s) Reviewed

  • From This Distance by Karen McLaughlin
  • The Other Sister by Lola Lemire Tostevin
  • The Sea Captain's Wife by Beth Powning

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fort Mac by Marc Prescott

Connecting Freedom (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Shadow in the Household by Bryan Prince

Premières pages (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'ɉmondé by Judy Quinn
  • Qui s'installe? by Hector Ruiz
  • Lests by Jacques Audet

Tough Being Tough (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dog Eat Rat by Tom Walmsley
  • Octopus Intelligence by Timothy Quinn
  • The Skeleton Dance by Philip Quinn

Reading List (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hooked on Canadian Books by T. F. Rigelhof

Short Simplicities (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Truth and Other Fictions by Eva Tihanyi
  • Fragments of the World by Hélène Rioux
  • Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cahiers Charlevoix 7 by Charlevoix Société

Book(s) Reviewed

  • asking questions indoors and out by Anne Compton
  • This Way Out by Carmine Starnino

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Skin Boat by John Terpstra

Responsible Voices (p. 175-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Oonagh by Mary Tilberg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Knife Sharpener's Bell by Rhea Tregebov

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Barry Callaghan by Priscila Uppal

Power of Stories (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese
  • The Moon of Letting Go by Richard Van Camp

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Carol Shields: Evocation and Echo by Aritha van Herk and Conny Steenman-Marcusse
  • Following the Curve of Time by Cathy Converse

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Vain Thing by Tom Wayman
  • Boundary Country by Tom Wayman
  • Woodstock Rising by Tom Wayman

A Great Achievement (p. 183-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Collected Works of Pat Lowther by Christine Wiesenthal

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Media, Memory, and the First World War by David Williams

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Prudent Mariner by Leslie Walker Williams
  • I Have My Mother's Eyes by Barbara Ruth Bluman

Painful Transitions (p. 187-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Meniscus by Shane Neilson
  • Path of Descent and Devotion by Ilya Tourtidis
  • The Fly in Autumn by David Zieroth
  • The Last House by Michael Kenyon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shopping for Sabzi by Nitin Deckha
  • The Sherpa and Other Fictions by Nila Gupta