Book Reviews

Uncovering a Poet (p. 131-32)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jacob-Isaac Segal (1896-1954) : un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu by Pierre Anctil

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Histoires littéraires des Canadiens au XVIIIe siècle by Bernard J. Andrès

Restless Pages (p. 134-37)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Medallions of Belief by Fred Wah
  • restless white fields by Barbara Langhorst
  • Distillō by Basma Kavanagh
  • Form of Forms by Mark Goldstein
  • Methodist Hatchet by Ken Babstock

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Magic of Saida by M. G. Vassanji
  • The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Entretiens sur l’éloquence et la littérature de Joseph-Sabin Raymond : édition critique by Marie Lise Laquerre and Marc André Bernier

The Art of Losing (p. 140-42)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Malarky by Anakana Schofield
  • Life Is About Losing Everything by Lynn Crosbie
  • Mad Hope by Heather Birrell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everybody Has Everything by Katrina Onstad
  • Mai at the Predators' Ball by Marie-Claire Blais

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Not Drowning But Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts by Jeanne Perreault, Heather Zwicker, Jo-Ann Wallace and Susan Brown

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Miah by Julia Lin
  • Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada by Lily Cho
  • Chinese Blue by Weyman Chan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols and Modern Storytelling by Eden Robinson
  • Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine by Kim Anderson
  • Kappianaqtut: Strange Creatures and Fantastic Beings From Inuit Myths and Legends, Volume 1: Giants and the Mother of the Sea Mammals, Second Edition by Neil Christopher

Occupying Change (p. 148-49)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change by Stephen Collis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Whirl Away by Russell Wangersky
  • My Life Among the Apes by Cary Fagan
  • Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy

Shifting Cadences (p. 154-55)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everything Was Good-bye by Gurjinder Basran
  • language is not the only thing that breaks by Proma Tagore
  • White Album by Rishma Dunlop and Suzanne Northcott
  • Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems by Rishma Dunlop

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Silence obscène des miroirs by Daniel Castillo Durante

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model by Winnifred Eaton and Karen H. Skinazi

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Introduction aux études canadiennes : histoires, identités, cultures by Colin M. Coates and Geoffrey Ewen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Identity in Place: Contemporary Indigenous Fiction by Women Writers in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by Paula Anca Farca

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Qwerty Institute: Annual Report by Angela Szczepaniak
  • Conflict by Christine McNair
  • repeater by Andrew McEwan
  • IKMQ by Roger Farr

DOLAM (p. 162-63)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires de l’Acadie des Maritimes du XXe siècle by Maurice Raymond and Janine Gallant

Future Futurist (p. 163-64)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven by Suzanne Zelazo and Irene Gammel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Carnival World of Robert Kroetsch by B. Hariharan

Love Narratives (p. 167-68)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler
  • The Reinvention of Love by Helen Humphreys

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mystery Stories by David Helwig
  • The Meagre Tarmac by Clark Blaise
  • Coming Attractions 10 by Mark Anthony Jarman

Framing Violence (p. 170-71)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Puppet by Eva Wiseman
  • Rachel's Secret by Shelly Sanders
  • Restitution: A Family's Fight for Their Heritage by Kathy Kacer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World by Kathryn Walker and Will Kymlicka

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Un Parisien au pays des pingouins by Stéphane Ledien

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Légende des anonymes et autres promenades by Jérémie Leduc-Leblanc

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada by Grace Li Xiu Woo
  • Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community by Jeremy Webber, Rebecca Johnson and Hester Lessard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dominion and Agency: Copyright and the Structuring of the Canadian Book Trade by Eli MacLaren

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason

Voyage au Kanyada (p. 179-80)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Tribu de Sangwa by Melchior Mbonimpa

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alain Grandbois est-il un écrivain québécois? Quelques réflexions sur notre littérature à partir des Voyages de Marco Polo by Patrick Moreau

Archives Matter (p. 181-83)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Exploring Canadian Women’s Archives by Linda Morra and Jessica Schagerl

Le Canada anglais (p. 183-85)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Canada anglais de Jacques Ferron (1960-1970). Formes, fonctions et représentations by Susan Margaret Murphy

Location, Location (p. 185-86)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gas Girls by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
  • Jewels and Other Stories by Dawn Promislow

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Christ obèse by Larry Tremblay

Comic Timing (p. 189-92)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Comics Versus Art by Bart Beaty
  • Modern Animalism: Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature by Glenn Willmott