Book Reviews

Writing 2K (p. 126-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • On the Threshold: Writing Toward the Year 2000 by T. Anne Archer et al.
  • Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium by Joan Thomas and Heidi Harms

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Contre-voix. Essais de critique au féminin by Lori Saint-Martin
  • Érudition et passion dans les lectures intimes by Manon Brunei

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sweet Taste of Lightning: Po'ems and Po'em-o-logues by Sheri-D Wilson
  • Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry by Regie Cabico and Todd Ellis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women by Denise Chong

Memories of Mothers (p. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Miss You Like Crazy by Eliza Clark
  • Bite the Stars by Eliza Clark

Canadian Lives (p. 134-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XIV, 1911-1920 by Ramsay Cook and Jean Hamelin

The Art of Artifice (p. 136-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Angel Falls by Tim Wynveen
  • Delirium by Douglas Cooper
  • Beneath that Starry Place by Terry Jordan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding by Terence W. Gordon
  • Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger by Philip Marchand

Rereading Bethune (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art by Larry Hannant

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Worrying the Nation: Imagining a National Literature in English Canada by Jon Kertzer
  • Practising Femininity: Domestic Realism and the Performance of Gender in Early Canadian Fiction by Misao Dean
  • Imperial Canada: 1867-1917 by Colin M. Coates

Nation/Transnation (p. 144-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation by Rachel C. Lee
  • Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada by Smaro Kamboureli

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Milton Acorn: In Love and Anger by Richard Lemm
  • Irving Layton: God's Recording Angel by Francis Mansbridge

Visit-Stay (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sulha by Malka Marom

Magic in Narrative (p. 150-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Evening with W.O. Mitchell by Barbara Mitchell and Ormond Mitchell
  • Magic Lies: The Art of W.O. Mitchell by Sheila Latham and David Latham

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kaddish for My Father: New and Selected Poems 1970-1999 by Libby Scheier
  • Things that Keep and Do Not Change by Susan Musgrave
  • What the Living Won't Let Go by Lorna Crozier

Wounded Narratives (p. 154-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival by Donald L. Niewyk
  • Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life Writing by Suzette A. Henke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Fine Daughter by Catherine Simmons Niven
  • The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World by Natalee Caple
  • We Could Stay Here All Night by Debbie Howlett
  • The Tracey Fragments by Maureen Medved

Book(s) Reviewed

  • White Madness by Robert Gibbs and Alden Nowlan
  • Selected Poems by Patrick Lane, Lorna Crozier and Alden Nowlan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity by Isidore Okpewho

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Space of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
  • The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas by Lynn Pan
  • China Chic: East Meets West by Valerie Steele and John S. Major

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gout: The Patrician Malady by Roy Porter and G.S. Rousseau
  • Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David B. Morris
  • Wishbone Dance by Glen Downie

Unfixed Selves (p. 169-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beautitudes of Ice by Rienzi Crusz
  • The Faces of Galle Face Green by Suwanda H. J. Sugunasiri
  • The Heat Yesterday by Ian Iqbal Rashid

Educating Readers (p. 172-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Seeing the Dark: Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye by Arnold E. Davidson
  • Schools of Sympathy: Gender and Identification Through the Novel by Nancy Roberts
  • Scarlet Letters: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Lee Thompson Briscoe

Various Fictions (p. 175-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • My Paris by Gail Scott
  • Rembrandt's Model by Yeshim Ternar
  • The World Beaters by Ed Kleiman

Renovated realism (p. 178-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Young Men by Russell Smith
  • All the Anxious Girls on Earth by Zsuszi Gartner
  • Sex is Red by Bill Gaston
  • The Death of the Moon by Brian Panhuyzen

Long-Lost Worlds (p. 181-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Collected Poems of Raymond Souster: Volume Eight 1991-1993 by Raymond Souster
  • No Sad Songs Wanted Here by Raymond Souster
  • Close to Home by Raymond Souster

A Work of Devotion (p. 182-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock by Carl Spadoni

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chapters in a Lucky Life by Clara Thomas

Flights of Verse (p. 185-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem by Frank M. Tierney and Angela Robbeson
  • Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Colours of the Forest by Tom Wayman