Book Reviews

Working the North (p. 136-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Running with the Caribou by Pete Sarsfield
  • Teaching in a Cold Windy Place by Joanne Tompkins
  • Reaching North: A Celebration of the Sub-Arctic by Jamie Bastedo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Two-Headed Calf by Sandra Birdsell
  • The Instructor by Ann Ireland

Refining the Isms (p. 140-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cultural Readings of Imprerialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History by Keith Ansell Pearson, Benita Parry and Judith Squires
  • Ethics After Idealism: Theory Culture Ethnicity Reading by Rey Chow

First Novels (p. 142-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Moving Water by Joan Skogan
  • The Blood Girls by Méira Cook

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Pleasure of the Crown: Anthropology, Law and First Nations by Dara Culhane
  • Walking in Indian Moccasins: The Native Policies of Tommy Douglas and the CCF by F. Laurie Barron

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poèmes pour l'univers by Christine Dumitriu van Saanen
  • L'homme invisible/The Invisible Man suivi de Les cascadeurs de l'amour by Patrice Desbiens
  • La fissure de la fiction by Patrice Desbiens

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Emma and the Coyote by Margiret Ruurs and Barbara Spurll
  • Baby Dreams by Eugenie Fernandes
  • Matthew and the Midnight Hospital by Allen Morgan and Michael Martchenko
  • Flags by Maxine Trottier and Paul Morin
  • Vanilla Gorilla by W. H. New and Vivian Bevis
  • The Ghouls' Night Out by Janice MacDonald and Pamela Breeze Currie

“An Alien Soil” (p. 150-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Slammin' Tar by Cecil Foster
  • The Origin of Waves by Austin Clarke

La Vie Bohème (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Scribes and Scoundrels by George Galt
  • In the Wings by Carole Corbeil

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology by Cheryl Glotfelty and Harold Fromm
  • Deep Currents: Roderick and Ann Haig-Brown by Valerie Haig-Brown

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno, Said, and Spivak by Asha Varadharajan
  • After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie by Michael Gorra

Muddy Histories (p. 158-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Projectionist by Michael Helm
  • Laterna Magika by Ven Begamudré

Joey’s Case (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood by Rachel Manley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ripostes: Reflections on Canadian Literature by Philip Marchand

Home Free? (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing Home: A PEN Canada Anthology by Constance Rooke
  • Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India by Harish Trivedi
  • Writing India 1757-1990: The Literature of British India by Bart Moore-Gilbert
  • Whose India? The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction and History by Teresa Hubel

Designing History (p. 170-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Later Stages: Essays in Ontario Theatre from the First World War to the 1970s by Ann Saddlemyer and Richard Plant
  • Canadian Mosaic II by Aviva Ravel

More Animal Stories (p. 172-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Wild Animal Story by Ralph H. Lutts
  • The Follow by Linda Spalding

Re Marriage (p. 175-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition by Carol Shields

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Crossword: A Woman's Narrative by Margo Swiss
  • Near Finisterre by John Reibetanz
  • Why Couldn't You See Blue? by Caroline Heath