Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Migration and Fiction: Narratives of Migration in Contemporary Canadian Literature by Maria Löschnigg and Martin Loschnigg
  • Fluid Exile: Jewish Exile Writers in Canada 1940-2006 by Eugen Banauch

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northern Kids by Linda Goyette
  • Grandpère by Janet Romain
  • As Long as the Rivers Flow by James Bartleman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Falling from Grace by Ann Eriksson
  • Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment by Michael Nicholl Yahgulanaas
  • Sila's Revenge by Jamie Bastedo
  • The Darkening Archipelago: A Cole Blackwater Mystery by Stephen Legault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L’essence scripturale du trait gravé: Les livres d’artiste de Lucie Lambert by Réjean Beaudoin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature by Sharon Morgan Beckford

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La voix et l’os: Imaginaire de l’ascèse chez Saint-Denys Garneau et Samuel Beckett by Frédérique Bernier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Praha by Marzia Paton and E.D. Blodgett
  • A Pirouette and Gone by E.D. Blodgett
  • Apostrophes VII: Sleep, You, a Tree by E.D. Blodgett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vox Humana by E. Alex Pierce
  • Redemption Rain by Jennifer Rahim
  • A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth by Stephanie Bolster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Memoirist, Translator, and Pornographer by Brian Busby

Digital Innovation (p. 142-45)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse by Sarah Kenderdine and Fiona Cameron
  • The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History by R. Douglas Francis
  • Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology by Ted D. Naylor and E. Dianne Looker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pourquoi j’ai fondé Le Devoir: Henri Bourassa et son temps by Mario Cardinal

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vancouver Kids by Lesley McKnight
  • The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
  • And Everything Nice by Kim Moritsugu

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Espèces by Ying Chen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema by Sally Chivers

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Queer Theatre in Canada by Rosalind Kerr
  • This One’s Going to Last Forever by Nairne Holtz
  • Outspoken: A Canadian Collection of Lesbian Scenes and Monologues by Susan G. Cole

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities by Smaro Kamboureli and Daniel Coleman

David Meet David (p. 153-54)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Why Are You So Long and Sweet: Collected Long Poems by David McFadden
  • Watermelon Kindness by David Donnell

Faith or Doubt? (p. 154-55)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography by Susanna Egan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist by Larry Hannant and Bert Whyte
  • Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror by Daniel Francis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • M. by Hans-Jürgen Greif
  • Comme dans un film des frères Coen by Bertrand Gervais

Genus Envy (p. 158-60)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Honey Locust by Jeffery Round
  • Ape House by Sara Gruen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L’Éveil culturel : Théâtre et presse à Montréal, 1898-1914 by Hervé Guay

Alphabet’s End (p. 160-62)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume V: Sl-Z by Joan Houston Hall

Alphabet’s End (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionary of American Regional English by Joan Houston Hall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties by Lawrence Aronsen
  • Imagining Toronto by Amy Lavender Harris

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Caribou Feed Our Soul by Pete Enzoe, Mindy Willett and Tessa Macintosh
  • Tales from the Tundra: A Collection of Inuit Stories by Ibi Kaslik, Louise Flaherty and Anthony Brennan
  • Fox on the Ice / Maageesees Maskwameek Kaapit by Tomson Highway and Brian Deines

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Truth of Houses by Ann Scowcroft
  • Burning House by Richard Lemm
  • Beckett Soundings by Inge Israel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Think Indian: Languages Are Beyond Price by Basil Johnston and Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

Elemental Voices (p. 167-68)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry by Susan McMaster
  • Modern Canadian Poets by Todd Swift and Evan Jones

How to Be Here (p. 168-69)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Man Facing West by Don Gayton
  • Goodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains by Frances W. Kaye

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Clandestino by Sergio Kokis

Flânerie, Tragedy (p. 171-72)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tout bouge autour de moi by Dany Laferrière

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lily in the Snow by Yan Li

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The End of the Ice Age by Terence Young
  • Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod

Book(s) Reviewed

  • First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship by Sophie McCall

Beyond Domesticity (p. 176-77)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stones for my Father by Trilby Kent
  • Out of the Box by Michell Mulder
  • She Said/She Saw by Norah McClintock

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Embouchure by Kevin McNeilly

Discovery Passages (p. 178-81)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Discovery Passages by Garry Thomas Morse

Book(s) Reviewed

  • “That’s Raven Talk”: Holophrastic Readings of Contemporary Indigenous Literatures by Mareike Neuhaus

Family Secrets (p. 183-84)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Every Time We Say Goodbye by Jamie Zeppa
  • Miracleville by Monique Polak

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Asie de soi, Asie de l’autre : Récits et figures de l’altérité by Janusz Przychodzen

Literary Thrills (p. 185-86)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Blue Light Project by Timothy Taylor
  • The Guardians by Andrew Pyper

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Histoire littéraire des femmes : cas et enjeux by Chantal Savoie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Inverted Pyramid by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Geography of Arrival by George Sipos

Only Connect (p. 190-91)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das by Merrily Weisbord

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature by Herb Wyile

Last Pages

Stick Pen (p. 199-201)
  • Footprints: Canadian Sports Stories: Summer by Dave Toms
  • Sport in Canada: A History by Kevin B. Wamsley and Don Morrow
  • Saskatchewan Sports: Lives Past and Present by Holden Stoffel
  • Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman by Sheema Khan
  • Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey by Jamie Dopp and Richard Harrison
  • Canadian Hockey Literature: A Thematic Study by Jason Blake