Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Doucement le bonheur by Marguerite Andersen
  • L'archipel du docteur Thomas by Françoise Enguehard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Un Monde de papier by François Désalliers
  • Vu d'ici by Mathieu Arsenault
  • L'Impudeur by Alain Roy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • (flood basement by Jeremy Stewart
  • 23 Skidoo / Subtractions by Michael Boughn
  • Curio by Elizabeth Bachinsky

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Belonging and Banishment by Natasha Bakht
  • Private Grief, Public Mourning by John Belshaw and Diane Purvey

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Schoolhouse by Leanna Brodie
  • Rootless but Green Are the Boulevard Trees by Uma Parameswaran
  • The Berlin Blues by Drew Hayden Taylor
  • Bone Cage by Catherine Banks

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Malagawatch Mice and the Cat Who Discovered America by Caroline Stellings
  • Spirits, Fairies, and Merpeople by C.J. Taylor
  • Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion by Jane Barclay and Renné Benoit
  • Clever Rachel by Debby Waldman and Cindy Revell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Braiding Histories by Susan D. Dion
  • The Drum Calls Softly by David Bouchard, Shelley Willier, Steve Wood and Jim Poitras

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World by Gérard Bouchard, Michelle Weinroth and Paul Leduc Browne

Imaging (in) Greece (p. 133-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Aegean Tales by Pan Bouyoucas and Sheila Fischman
  • Swim by Marianne Apostolides

Book(s) Reviewed

  • From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans by Joseph Boyden
  • Art as Performance: Story as Criticism by Craig Womack

The Art of Work (p. 136-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Well-Mannered Storm by Kate Braid
  • Kahlo by Linda Frank
  • Paper Trail by Arleen Paré
  • The Office Tower Tales by Alice Major

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Practice of Her Profession by Susan Butlin

Wolf, Star, and Ash (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Radius of Light by Joshua Auerbach
  • Combustion by Lorri Neilsen Glenn
  • Wolf Tree by Alison Calder
  • Contrary Infatuations by Dymphny Dronyk
  • Last Scattering Surfaces by Gil McElroy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Carnival Glass by Bonnie Dunlop
  • One Day It Happens by Mary Lou Dickinson
  • Making Olives and Other Family Stories by Darlene Madott
  • Almond Wine and Fertility by Licia Canton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Smuggling Donkeys by David Helwig
  • That Tune Clutches My Heart by Paul Headrick
  • Niceman Cometh by David Carpenter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Animal Subjects by Jodey Castricano

En un mot (p. 146-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lucarnes by Éric Charlebois
  • Solstices by Herménégilde Chiasson

Saisir (p. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Toucher l'eau et le ciel by Francine Chiocoine
  • Sur la table vitrée by Robert Melançon and Francine Chiocoine

Gone Albertan (p. 150-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wild Words by Donna Coates and George Melnyk

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Political Life of Sensation by Davide Panagia
  • What's to Eat? by Nathalie Cooke

Daze and Nights (p. 152-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Words with Power by Michael Dolzani
  • The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'incontournable cécité d'Homère) by Alberto Manguel
  • The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975 by Jean O'Grady and Eva Kushner

Native Textuality (p. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Common Pot by Lisa Brooks
  • Muting White Noise by James H. Cox
  • Taking Back Our Spirits by Jo-Ann Episkenew

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 100 Years of Anne with an 'E' by Holly Blackford
  • Imagining Anne by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly

Editing Talent (p. 160-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Douglas Gibson Unedited by Christine Evain

Farting In Church (p. 161-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rien n'€™est plus précieux que la liberté et l'indépendence by Pierre Falardeau

Traditional Threads (p. 163-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rankin Inlet by Mara Feeney

Noli me scribere (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Homa Sweet Home by Patrick Lafontaine
  • Chronos à sa table de travail by Margaret Michèle Cook

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Day I Became a Canadian by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet and Song Nan Zhang
  • Hurricane! by Celia Godkin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Future is Queer by Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel
  • queersexlife by Terry Goldie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mémoire d'ombres by Jérémie Leduc-Leblanc
  • La lune en mille gouttes by Bertrand Nayet
  • Cette lumière qui flotte by Hélène Leclerc

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bambina by Francesca Piredda
  • Gravity by Leanne Lieberman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Shakespeare's Mine by Ric Knowles
  • A Certain William by Leanore Lieblein

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shimmerdogs by Dianne Linden
  • Dog Tracks by Ruby Slipperjack
  • The Nine Lives of Travis Keating by Jill MacLean

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vancouver: A Poem by George F. G. Stanley
  • A Verse Map of Vancouver by George McWhirter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Journey to Atlantis by Philip Roy
  • The Blythes Are Quoted by L. M. Montgomery and Benjamin Lefebvre

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bay of Spirits: A Love Story by Farley Mowat
  • Otherwise by Farley Mowat

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations by Reingard M. Nischik

Book(s) Reviewed

  • History of Literature in Canada by Reingard M. Nischik

Lilies and Realism (p. 181-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Essential Don Coles by Don Coles
  • Coal and Roses by P. K. Page
  • A Long Continual Argument by John Newlove

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pardon Our Monsters by Andrew Hood
  • Once by Rebecca Rosenblum
  • Reckoning by A. S. Penne
  • The Butcher of Penetang by Betsy Trumpener

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I Am Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter by Lily Hoy Price

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paul Goes Fishing by Michel Rabagliati and Helge Dascher

In the Family (p. 186-188)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Renovating Heaven by Andreas Schroeder
  • Apologize, Apologize! by Elizabeth Kelly
  • Long After Fathers by Roberta Rees

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Walkable City: From Haussman's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond by Mary Soderstrom

In My Fashion (p. 189-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Letters of Stephen Leacock by David Staines

The Full Circle (p. 190-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Restoring the Balance by Eric Guimond, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis and Madeleine Dion Stout

Grasping Ondaatje (p. 192-193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Michael Ondaatje: Distance, Clarity, and Ghosts. An Analysis of Ondaatje's Writing Techniques Against a Background of War and Buddhist Philosophy by Joan Elizabeth von Memerty
  • Michael Ondaatje by Lee Spinks

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Magic Island: The Fictions of L. M. Montgomery by Elizabeth Waterston