Editorial

Book Reviews

Possible Storms (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Small Place by Jamaica Kinkaid
  • Resistance Literature by Barbara Harlow
  • Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and other Writings 1977-1984 by Lawrence D. Kritzman

Sun, Rum & Romance (p. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Reine Soleil levée by Gérard Etienne
  • Noëlle à Cuba by Pierre Karch

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Repos et l'oubli by Naïm Kattan
  • L'Obomsawin by Daniel Poliquin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bibliography of Critcism on English and French Literary Translations in Canada/Bibliographie de la Critique des Traductions Littéraires Anglaises et Françaises au Canada by Kathy Mezei
  • Voyage to Vendée by Robert Marteau and David Homel

Cultural Memory (p. 148-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Way I Remember It by Antonio Mazza

Image/Text (p. 149-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Summer in Quebec: A. Y. Jackson in 1925: A Family View by Naomi Jackson Groves
  • Art, Sight, and Language: A Reading/Writing of Some Contemporary Canadian Art by Asheleigh Moorhouse

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Torpor: Collected Fiction, 1960-1978, Volume 2 by J. Michael Yates
  • Telling Differences: New English Fiction from Quebec by Linda Leith
  • Hard Travel by Lesley Krueger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tamara by John Krizanc

Structure of Belief (p. 154-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ou Le langage des Sources: Essais by Rina Lasnier

Ambition (p. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea by L. M. Montgomery and Rea Wilmhurst

Un pays inconnu (p. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Du sommet d'un arbre by Yves Beauchemin
  • La Visée critique by André Brochu

Difficult Passage (p. 159-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Translation: An Interpretive Approach by Jean Delisle, P. Logan and M. Creery
  • The Cycle by Gerard Bessette and A. D. Martin-Sperry
  • Like a Child of the Earth by Jovette Marchessault

Prairie Women (p. 161-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Gift of Sky by Linda Ghan
  • Rites by Brenda Riches

Maudits (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Maudits Anglais! Lettre ouverte aux Quebecois d'un Franco-Ontarien indigné by Jean-Paul Marchand
  • La guerre des langues dans l'affichage by Jacques Leclerc
  • Actes. Premier colloque de bande dessinée de Montréal by Jacques Samson and André Carpentier

Fixed Smile (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Other Side of Silence: A Life of Ethel Wilson by Mary McAlpine

Mysteries (p. 166-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dance of Shiva by William Deverell
  • Platinum Blues by William Deverell
  • A Victim Must be Found by Howard Engel
  • Field Work by Maureen Moore
  • A Question of Murder by Eric Wright

Backtracking (p. 169-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Red Earth, Yellow Stone by Anne Campbell
  • Making Movies by Andrew Wreggitt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Great Prairie Fact and Literary Imagination by Robert Thacker
  • Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays by Kenneth G. Robert

“Other” (p. 174-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Born to Lose by Trevor Clark
  • Electrical Storms by David Homel
  • Buddy's: Meditations on Desire by Stan Persky

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Juliette Pomerleau by Yves Beauchemin

Silences (p. 177-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Musical Offering by E.D. Blodgett
  • Movement in Slow Time by Ann Rosenberg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction by Linda Hutcheon

New Fiction (p. 180-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Truth of Lies by Frances Itani
  • Blind Date by Susan Kerslake

Dynamics of Memory (p. 182-183)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Light of Imagination by Neil Besner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Two Worlds: Studies in the Protestant Culture of Ontario, 1820-1870 by Henry Hubert and William Westfall

Alternative Theatre (p. 185-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • McClure: A Play in two acts by Heather Jones and Scott Munroe

Déjà  vu (p. 186-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Distant Relations by Kenneth Radu and W. J. Keith

Costume Parade (p. 187-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 88 Best Canadian Short Stories by Maggie Helwig and David Helwig
  • Coming Attractions by Maggie Helwig and David Helwig
  • The Canadian Short Story by Eberhard Kreutzer and Michelle Gadpaille

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Planet Harbour by Brian Bartlett and Darrell Laird
  • Amanuensis by Darrell Laird and Phil Hall
  • A Delicate Fire by Darrell Laird and Harold Rhenisch

(Un)Frank: Davey (p. 191-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reading Canadian Reading by Robert Lecker and Frank Davey

Lecker’s Blaise (p. 192-193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Other I: The Fictions of Clark Blaise by Robert Lecker and Linda Leith

Approach (p. 193-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition by John Hayman and Charles Lillard

Loyalist (p. 195-196)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jonathan Odell: Loyalist Poet of the American Revolution by Cynthia Dubin Edelberg and Mary Lu MacDonald

Niagara (p. 196-197)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Voices on the Brink by Mark Madoff and Tom Marshall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Casual Brutality by Amin Malak and Neil Bissoondath

Explorations (p. 199-200)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Amanita Muscaria; Carnet, 1980-1988 by Cedric May and Nicholas Catanoy
  • Connaissance de la Mort by Cedric May and Yves Gosselin
  • Le Simple Geste d'Exister avec six tableaux by Cedric May and Joël Pourbaix
  • Beau Lieu by Cedric May and Guy Cloutier
  • D'elle en elles by Cedric May and Célyne Fortin
  • Les Chroniques d'une Seconde à l'Autre by Cedric May and Marie Savard

Antitheses (p. 201-202)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nora by the Sea by Cary Fagan and C. D. Mazoff
  • Five Stories by W. P. Kinsella and C. D. Mazoff
  • The Fiction of W. P. Kinsella: Tall Tales in Various Voices by C. D. Mazoff and Don Murray
  • The Machine Minders by C. D. Mazoff and Marius Kociejowski

Hidden Powers (p. 202-204)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Snakebite by Judit M. Molnár and Ann Diamond
  • Daughter of Copper Woman by Anne Cameron and Judit M. Molnár

Craft & Friendship (p. 204-205)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • With WK in the Workshop. A Memoir of William Kurelek by Brian Dedora and Patricia Morley

Quebec Drama (p. 205-207)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La grande opération ou quand les rêves refusent de mourir by Jane Moss and Jean-Raymond Marcoux
  • En scène depuis 25 ans by Jane Moss and La Nouvelle Compagnie Théatrale
  • Les enfants n'ont pas de sexe? by Jane Moss and Le Théatre de Carton

Maelstrom (p. 207-209)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lucky Strike by Hrant Alianak and Dorothy Parker
  • A Particular Class of Women by Janet Feindel and Dorothy Parker

Human Neglect (p. 209-210)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Constallations by Elizabeth Parkinson and Janice Kulyk Keefer

Messianisme (p. 210-211)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Naissance d'une littérature by Réjean Beaudoin

Unpalatable Truths (p. 211-213)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Ensphering Mind by James Wieland
  • Towards an Aesthetic of Opposition by Arun Mukherjee

Struggle (p. 213-215)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Plague Year Journal by Michael Estok
  • Troubling a Star by C. D. Mazoff and Deborah Godin
  • Landsinger by C. D. Mazoff and Tony Cosier

Best of Intentions (p. 215-216)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Intent, or The Weight of the World by Robert Attridge and Roo Borson

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