Book Reviews

Keeping in Touch (p. 142-43)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Love Ruins Everything by Karen X. Tulchinsky
  • Missed Her: Stories by Ivan E. Coyote
  • Exit by Nelly Arcan and David Scott Hamilton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Facing the Hunter: Reflections on a Misunderstood Way of Life by David Adams Richards
  • Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice by Christine Ramsay
  • Toby: A Man by Todd Babiak

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cop Kisser by Steven Zultanski
  • Psychic Geographies and Other Topics by Gregory Betts
  • Clockfire by Jonathan Ball

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sindbad: From the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights by Ludmila Zeman
  • Seal Song by Andrea Spalding and Pascal Milelli
  • Josepha: A Prairie Boy’s Story by Jim McGugan and Murray Kimber
  • Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog by Tim Beiser and Rachel Berman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Conscience du désert by Michel Biron

“storee lines” (p. 148-50)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • textual vishyuns: image and text in the work of bill bissett by Carl Peters
  • novel by bill bissett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • How I Wrote Certain of My Books by George Bowering
  • Horizontal Surfaces by George Bowering

Book(s) Reviewed

  • All Those Drawn to Me by Christian Petersen
  • Two O’Clock Creek: Poems New and Selected by Bruce Hunter
  • Tenderman by Tim Bowling

Everyday Oddities (p. 152-54)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Letters to Omar by Rachel Wyatt
  • Spaz by Bonnie Bowman

Poésies diverses (p. 154-55)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Nuit de la muette by France Théoret
  • Plus haut que les flammes by Louise Dupré
  • L’Épreuve de la distance : proses et poèmes by Denise Brassard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Forgetting the Holocaust by Ron Charach
  • Turning the Corner at Dusk by Jacquie Buncel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Leçons de littérature : un siècle de manuels scolaires au Québec by Karine Cellard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Better Mother by Jen Sookfong Lee
  • Beauty Plus Pity by Kevin Chong

Skunk Nights (p. 158-60)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ithaca by David Davidar
  • The Beggar’s Garden: Stories by Michael Christie

Pop Guns (p. 160-61)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Good Man by Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wandering Souls in Paradise Lost by Hélène Rioux and Jonathan Kaplansky
  • Miss Take by Réjean Ducharme and Will Browning

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Good Time Had by All by Meaghan Strimas
  • Recipes from the Red Planet by Meredith Quartermain
  • Fieldnotes, a Forensic by Kate Eichhorn

Book(s) Reviewed

  • And See What Happens: The Journey Poems by Ursula Vaira
  • Seeing Lessons by Catherine Owen
  • A Thoroughly Wicked Woman: Murder, Perjury & Trial by Newspaper by Betty Keller
  • Edge of the Sound: Memoirs of a West Coast Log Salvager by Jo Hammond
  • 4 Poets by Onjana Yawnghwe, Al Rempel, Peter Morin and Daniela Elza

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Asian Skies by Ken Norris
  • Sharawadji by Brian Henderson
  • The Terracotta Army by Gary Geddes
  • Swimming Ginger by Gary Geddes

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Translating Women by Luise Von Flotow
  • Transatlantic Passages: Literary and Cultural Relations between Quebec and Francophone Europe by Miléna Santoro and Paula Ruth Gilbert

Repeating Stories (p. 171-72)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Secret Keepers by Paul Yee
  • Crisp by R. W. Gray

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lingering Tide and Other Stories by Latha Viswanathan
  • Because I Have Loved and Hidden It by Elise Moser
  • Sweetness from Ashes by Marlyn Horsdal

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Des langues en partage? : cohabitation du français et de l’anglais en littérature contemporaine by Catherine Leclerc

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dance, Monster!: Fifty Selected Poems by Stan Rogal
  • The Unmemntioable by Erín Mouré
  • A (short) history of l by rob mclennan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mongrel by Marko Sijan
  • YOU comma Idiot by Doug Harris
  • A Possible Madness by Frank Macdonald

The Past Revised (p. 178-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bingo! by Daniel MacIvor
  • Lenin's Embalmers by Vern Thiessen
  • Living Curiosities or What You Will by Mary Vingoe

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Derniers Jours de Smokey Nelson by Catherine Mavrikakis

Mythical Worlds (p. 181-83)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Touch by Alexi Zentner
  • Monoceros by Suzette Mayr

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Histoire de l’édition littéraire au Québec au XXe siècle, vol. 3 : la bataille du livre 1960-2000 by Jacques Michon

Raw Power (p. 184-85)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Crystal Palace by Carey Toane
  • Campfire Radio Rhapsody by Robert Earl Stewart
  • Stray Dog Embassy by Natasha Nuhanovic
  • Hooligans by Lillian Necakov
  • Goodbye, Ukulele by Leigh Nash

Black Chronicles (p. 186-87)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Grease Town by Ann Towell
  • Chronicles: Early Works by Dionne Brand
  • What’s a Black Critic to Do II: Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers by Donna Bailey Nurse

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sheilagh’s Brush by Maura Hanrahan
  • Blood Relatives by Craig Francis Power

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Autobiography of Childhood by Sina Queyras

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Être ou ne pas être un homme : la masculinité dans le roman québécois by Victor-Laurent Tremblay
  • Au-delà du nom : la question du père dans la littérature québécoise actuelle by Lori Saint-Martin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer
  • Watch by Robert J. Sawyer
  • Wake by Robert J. Sawyer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Guyana by Élise Turcotte

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Peripheral Fear: Transformations of the Gothic in Canadian and Australian Fiction by Gerry Turcotte