Opinions & Notes

Last Page (p. 230-231)

Book Reviews

Beyond Orientalism (p. 156-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shakti's Words: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women's Poetry by Diane McGifford and Judith Kearns

Songs of Travel (p. 157-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Still Close to the Raven by Rienzi Crusz
  • Horizontal Hotel: A Nigerian Odyssey by Richard Stevenson
  • The Conception of Winter by Claire Harris

Eyre & Anglos (p. 160-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

Parallaxes (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ambivalences: Studies in Canadian Literature by Om P. Juneja and Chandra Mohan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dévadé by Réjean Ducharme

Skvorecky (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Miracle Game by Josef Skvorecky and Paul Wilson
  • Prague Blues: The Fiction of Joseph Skvorecky by Sam Solecki

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La vraie vie des masquées ou ça finit comme ça commence by Le Théatre du Horla
  • A ma mère, à ma mère, à ma mère, à ma voisine by Domnique Gagnon, Louise Laprade, Nicole Lecavalier and Pol Pelletier
  • Si Cendrillon pouvait mourir! by Le Show des Femmes de Thetford Mines
  • Môman travaille pas, a trop d'ouvrage! by Le Théatre des Cuisines

Revolutionizing Art (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Plays at the Iron Bridge, or The Autobiography of Tom Horror by Wilfrid Watson and Shirley Neuman

Conversations (p. 170-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fair Play: Conversation with Twelve Woman Playwrights by Judith Rudakoff and Rita Much
  • Margaret Atwood: Conversations by Earl G. Ingersoll

Multiple Paradigms (p. 172-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Century That Made Us: Canada 1814-1914 by George Woodcock
  • Voices of Change: Immigrant Writers Speak Out by Jurgen Hesse

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Disappearing Moon Café by SKY Lee
  • Canadian Adventures of the Flying Egyptian by Saad Elkhadem and Saal El-Gabalawy

Mythical Method (p. 176-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A tout regard by Nicole Brossard
  • Le coeur net by Sylvie Moisan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Twenty Years at Play: A New Play Centre Anthology by Jerry Wasserman

Women Rhetors (p. 181-183)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Man Cannot Speak for Her. Volume II: Key Texts of the Early Feminists by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
  • Man Cannot Speak For Her. Volume I: A Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell

She Walks on Water (p. 183-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Controlling the Uncontrollable by Ildikó de Papp Carrington

Held Hostage (p. 184-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Homesick by Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • Lies of Silence by Brian Moore

Le voyage humain (p. 186-188)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Phoenix intégral by Paul Chamberland
  • Un Livre de morale by Paul Chamberland

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Light of Burning Towers: Poems New & Selected by Gary Geddes
  • Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation by Paul B. Armstrong
  • Vers Libre: The Emergence of Free Verse in France 1886-1914 by Clive Scott

Lucid Paradox (p. 190-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stratégies du vertige: trois poètes, Nicole Brossard, Madeline Gagnon, France Théoret by Louise Dupré

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Players and Performances in the Victorian Theatre by George Taylor
  • Shakespeare's America, America's Shakespeare by Michael D. Bristol
  • Actors and Onlookers: Theater and Twentieth-Century Scientific Views of Nature by Natalie Crohn Schmitt

Beyond the Self (p. 193-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stalin's Carnival by Steven Heighton
  • Blue Sand, Blue Moon by Mark Abley

La Rage (p. 195-197)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Rage by Louis Hamelin
  • Ce qui nous tient by Gaëtan Brulotte

Culture Stories (p. 197-198)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Spirit Quest by Carol Baldorf and Tracy Williams Cheney
  • Bad Boy by Diana Wieler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adult Entertainment by John Metcalf
  • A View from the Roof by Helen Weinzweig

Skillful Acts (p. 200-202)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Quiet in the Land by Anne Chislett
  • Willful Acts: Five Plays by Margaret Hollingsworth

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Ombre de l'épervier by Noël Audet
  • Vamp by Christian Mistral

Interconnections (p. 204-206)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media by Margot Lovejoy
  • The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context by Mark Poster

Dreams & Deceptions (p. 206-207)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • History Lessons: Stories & Novellas by Cary Fagan

Language Women (p. 207-209)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Imaginary Hand by George Bowering and Smaro Kamboureli
  • The Politics of Postmodernism by Terence Hawkes and Linda Hutcheon

Train & Balloon (p. 209-210)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Travelling Ladies by Janice Kulyk Keefer
  • Changing Heaven by Jane Urquhart

Resounding Voices (p. 210-212)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Song to the Rising Sun: A Collection by Paulette Jiles
  • Comic Book Heroine and Other Stories by Sarah Murphy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka by Joseph Skvorecky
  • The Tears of Chinese Immigrants by Charlie Jang
  • The Confusion of Stones by Marwan Hassan

Ecriture-femme (p. 214-215)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Inseparable by Louise Bouchard
  • L'homme qui peignait Staline by France Théorêt

Greedy Toronto (p. 215-216)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • St. Farb's Day by Morley Torgov

Taking Sides (p. 216-218)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Sense of Style: Studies in the Art of Fiction in English-Speaking Canada by W. J. Keith
  • Dance of the Sexes: Art and Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro by Beverley J. Rasporich

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Roland Barthes by Louis-Jean Calvet
  • The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes by Mary Bittner Wiseman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Predicament of Culture: Essays on Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art by James Clifford

Intensity of Love (p. 223-224)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Letters to Bernadette by Gabrielle Roy

Relationships (p. 224-226)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Man of My Dreams by Diane Schoemperlen
  • Words and Music by Louise Maheux-Forcier

A Didactic Bent (p. 226-227)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Fous de papier by Roger Viau
  • Gabrielle Provencher, Suffragette by Rachel Fontaine

Women Alone (p. 228-230)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe
  • Proper Deafinitions: collected theograms by Betsy Warland
  • People You'd Trust Your Life to by Bronwen Wallace