Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Histoire de la littérature québécoise by Michel Biron, Élisabeth Nardout-Lafarge, François Dumont and Martine-Emmanuelle Lapointe

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La culture québécoise est-elle en crise? by Gérard Bouchard and Alain Roy

Immigration Re-told (p. 106-107)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Drums of My Flesh by Cyril Dabydeen
  • Governor of the Northern Province by Randy Boyagoda

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Art or Memorial?: The Forgotten History of Canadian War Art by Laura Brandon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Newer Wilderness by Roseanne Carrara
  • Mother Time: Poems New and Selected by Joanne Arnott
  • Soft Geography by Gillian Wigmore

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Langue et culture : unité et discordance by Benoît Cazabon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada : Translation and Transculturation / traduction et transculturation by Lucien Pelletier and Norman Cheadle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poétiques du Messie : l’origine juive en souffrance by Anne Elaine Cliché

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
  • Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit by Tom Osborne

Children and Death (p. 115-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mr. Gauguin's Heart by Marie-Danielle Croteau, Isabelle Arsenault and Susan Ouriou
  • Marja's Skis by Jean E. Pendziwol and Jirina Marton
  • Light Foot/Pies Ligeros by Natalia Toledo, Francisco Toledo and Elisa Amado

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gaspereau Gloriatur: Liber Beati Anni Decimi. Volume I: Poetry by Michael deBeyer, Kate Kennedy and Andrew Steeves
  • Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski by Don Domanski and Brian Bartlett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Children of the Outer Darkness: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney by Christopher Dewdney and Karl Jirgens
  • The Bindery by Shane Rhodes
  • Earth's Crude Gravities by Patrick Friesen

Migrations (p. 121-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stealing Nasreen by Farzana Doctor
  • Room Tone by Gale Zoë Garnett
  • The Goldfish Dancer: Stories and Novellas by Patricia Robertson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • All Our Wonder Unavenged by Don Domanski
  • Poetry and the Sacred by Don Domanski

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Winds of L'Acadie by Lois Donovan
  • Leaving Simplicity by Claire Carmichael

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination by Janice Fiamengo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Prairie West as Promised Land by R. Douglas Francis and Chris Kitzan
  • All This Town Remembers by Sean Johnston

Pebbles and Panes (p. 129-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Woman Who Walks on Glass by Christine Frenette and Sheila Fischman
  • Glass Voices by Carol Bruneau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Envoyer et recevoir. Lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones by Yves Frenette, Marcel Martel and John Willis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Safe Haven: The Possibility of Sanctuary in an Unsafe World by Larry Gaudet

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Treize contes fantastiques québécois by Claude Gonthier and Bernard Meney
  • Contes du Détroit by Joseph-Médard Carrière, Marcel Bénéteau and Donald Deschênes
  • Mon oncle ɉmile conte by Ange-Émile Maheu

Generations (p. 134-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Who’s Who in Black Canada 2: Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada, a Contemporary Directory by Dawn P. Williams
  • From Harvey River: a memoir of my mother and her people by Lorna Goodison

From Trogs to Blogs (p. 136-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Biography: A Brief History by Nigel Hamilton

Saving Generations (p. 137-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ragged Islands by Don Hannah
  • The Valley by Gayle Friesen

Two Tales of a City (p. 138-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • City Making in Paradise: Nine Decisions that Saved Vancouver by Mark Harcourt, Ken Cameron and Sean Rossiter
  • The Story of Dunbar: Voices of a Vancouver Neighbourhood by Peggy Schofield

Out of Bounds (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Searching for Billie by Freda Jackson
  • The Girls Who Saw Everything by Sean Dixon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Painted Circus: P.T. Vermin presents A Mesmerizing Menagerie of Trickery and Illusion Guaranteed to Beguile and Bamboozle the Beholder by Wallace Edwards
  • Other Goose: Recycled Rhymes for Our Fragile Times by Barbara Wyn Klunder
  • Stones, Bones and Stitches: Storytelling Through Inuit Art by Shelley Falconer and Shawna White
  • Jack Pine by Christopher Patton and Cybèle Young

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Approches de la biographie au Québec by Domenique Lafon, Rainier Grutman, Marcel Olscamp and Robert Vigneault

In His Own Words (p. 144-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Over Canadian Trails: F.P. Grove in New Letters and Documents by Klaus Martens

Emerging Edge (p. 146-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dirtbags by Teresa McWhirter
  • Bottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe Whittall
  • Indigenous Beasts by Nathan Sellyn

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Silent Raga by Ameen Merchant

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Rouleurs by Madeleine Monette

Whose Bones? (p. 149-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Transversals for Orpheus & the untitled 1-13 by Garry T. Morse
  • A Few Words Will Do by Lionel Kearns
  • ths is erth thees ar peopul by bill bissett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Reckoning of Boston Jim by Claire Mulligan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family by Leilah Nadir

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Robert Weaver: Godfather of Canadian Literature by Elaine Kalman Naves

Trudeau Biographers (p. 156-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944 by Max Nemni, Monique Nemni and William Johnson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing by Donna Bailey Nurse
  • The African Diaspora in Canada by Wisdom J. Tettey and Korbla P. Puplampu

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionnaire des citations littéraires de l'Ontario français depuis 1960 by Mariel O'Neill-Karch and Pierre Paul Karch
  • Arcadian Christmas Traditions by Georges Arsenault and Sally Ross

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Willy Graf by Michel Ouellette

Papiers couchés (p. 162-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dépositions by Pierre Ouellet

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Up on the Roof by P. K. Page

Deux musiciens (p. 163-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Notes d'™espoir d’un « joueur de piano » by Pierre Jasmin and Jean Gagnon
  • Piccoletta : souvenirs by Clermont Pépin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Once Upon a Full Moon by Elizabeth Quan
  • Mee-An and the Magic Serpent by Baba Wagué Diakité
  • Sky Blue Accident/Accidente celeste by Jorge Lujàn, Elisa Amado and Piet Grobler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Perspectives sur la littérature franco-ontarienne by Ali Reguigui and Hédi Bouraoui

Essais polémiques (p. 167-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chroniques d’un temps loufoque by François Ricard

Games and Gifts (p. 169-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Playing the Inside Out/Le jeu des apparences: The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture by David Adams Richards
  • Abundance: The Mackie House Conversations about the Writing Life by John Lent and Robert Kroetsch
  • Imagination in Action: Thoughts on Creativity by Painters, Sculpters, Musicians, Poets, Novelists, Teachers, Actors... by Carol Malyon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La maison mémoire by Sandra Rompré-Deschênes
  • Bayou mystère by Daniel St-Onge

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor
  • Borderline by Bonnie Rozanski
  • Gemini Summers by Iain Lawrence

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Into the Ravine by Richard Scrimger
  • Death in Kingsport by Curtis Parkinson
  • When the Bough Breaks by Irene N. Watts

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wood Mountain Poems: 30th Anniversary Edition by Andrew Suknaski
  • Blood and Bone, Ice and Stone by Glen Sorestad
  • Writing the Terrain: Travelling through Alberta with the Poets by Robert M. Stamp

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The New Buffalo: The Struggle for Aboriginal Post- Secondary Education in Canada by Blair Stonechild
  • Healing Wounded Hearts by Fyre Jean Graveline

New Short Fiction (p. 178-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Journey Prize Stories 19: The Best of Canada’s New Writers by Caroline Adderson, David Bezmozgis and Dionne Brand
  • Home Schooling by Heidi Tiedemann Darroch and Carol Windley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Finding Home by Eric Wright
  • Turtle Valley by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Canadian Adventures (p. 180-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Probing Minds, Salamander Girls and a Dog Named Sally by Harrison Wright
  • Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman’s Journey across Canada by Barbara Kingscote

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Torontonians by Phyllis Brett Young
  • Coureurs de Bois by Bruce F. MacDonald