Upcoming reviews
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Fragile Lives
by Irene Gammel
Book(s) reviewed:
- Benevolence by Cynthia Holz
- Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards
Play’s the Thing
by Graham N. Forst
Book(s) reviewed:
- Northrop Frye's Writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance: Vol. 28 by Garry Sherbert, Northrop Frye, and Troni Y. Grande
“field poetics sky blue”
by Sean Braune
Book(s) reviewed:
- Gangson by Andy Weaver
- Glengarry by rob mclennan
Textures
by Laurie Ricou
Book(s) reviewed:
- Deepwater Vee by Melanie Siebert
- Mnemonic: A Book of Trees by Theresa Kishkan
The Sins of the Father
by Beverley Haun
Book(s) reviewed:
- A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
- Tell It to the Trees by Anita Rau Badami
- The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
National and Global Mythologies in Canadian Theatre
by Anne F. Nothof
Book(s) reviewed:
- If We Were Birds by Erin Shields
- So Many Doors by Celia McBride
- The Nuttalls by Michael Healey
- Theatres in the Round: Multi-ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama by Dorothy Figueira and Marc Maufort
- Tonight at the Tarragon: A Critic's Anthology by Kamal Al-Solaylee
"she was owed a party . . ."
by Alexandra Gilbert
Book(s) reviewed:
- West of Wawa by Lisa de Nikolits
Enduring Colonialism in Canadian News
by Candis Callison
Book(s) reviewed:
- Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers by Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson
Skunk Nights
by Christoph Irmscher
Book(s) reviewed:
- Ithaca by David Davidar
- The Beggar's Garden: Stories by Michael Christie
Diaspora and Indigeneity
by Paul Lai
Book(s) reviewed:
- Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada by Melina Baum Singer, Sophie McCall, and Christine Kim
French Canadian Lives
by Jeanne Perreault
Book(s) reviewed:
- Talon by Paulette Dubé
Memory and Lyricism
by Matthew Hall
Book(s) reviewed:
- A (short) history of l by rob mclennan
- Dance, Monster!: Fifty Selected Poems by Stan Rogal
- The Unmemntioable by Erín Moure
Devotions
by Antje M. Rauwerda
Book(s) reviewed:
- Invoking the Moon: Selected Poems (1975-1989) by Mona Fertig
- Torch River by Elizabeth Philips
First Contacts
by Sophie McCall
Book(s) reviewed:
- Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact by John Sutton Lutz
Hockey Margins
by Jason Blake
Book(s) reviewed:
- Le Canadien de Montréal: Une légende repensée by Audrey Laurin-Lamothe and Nicolas Moreau
- Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels by Michael Buma
- Stickhandling through the Margins: First Nations Hockey in Canada by Michael Robidoux
Poémes de l'Origine
by Stéphane Girard
Book(s) reviewed:
- Tant de Vie s'égare by Andrée Lacelle
Face à l'autre
by Jean-Pierre Thomas
Book(s) reviewed:
- Les fossoyeurs by André Lamontagne
- Ru by Kim Thúy
Faire son chemin parmi les ombres
by Ariane Audet
Book(s) reviewed:
- Marcher pieds nus sur nos disparitions by Lyne Richard
Test review: Subtitle
by Matthew Gruman
Book(s) reviewed:
- Test book by Matthew Gruman
Un homme rapaillé
by Jean-Sébastien Ménard
Book(s) reviewed:
- Gaston Miron : La vie d’un homme by Pierre Nepveu
Dark Chapters & Illuminating Characters in Canadian Child Welfare History
by Richard Sullivan
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972 by Karen Balcom
Le méchant à l’examen
by Marie-Hélène Larochelle
Book(s) reviewed:
- Attention écrivains méchants by Simon Harel
Diasporic Imaginaries
by Donna McCormack
Book(s) reviewed:
- Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women's Fiction of the 1990s by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Belén Martín-Lucas, and Sonia Villegas-López
Between I and I
by Katherine McLeod
Book(s) reviewed:
- Blood is Blood by Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie Souaid
- Err by Shane Rhodes
- I & I by George Elliott Clarke
Contact Zones
by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
Book(s) reviewed:
- Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright: Puritan Child, Native Daughter, Mother Superior by Julie Wheelwright
- Into the Heart of the Country by Pauline Holdstock
Imagining Newfoundland
by Susie DeCoste
Book(s) reviewed:
- Glass Boys by Nicole Lundrigan
- The Fetch by Nico Rogers
- You Could Believe in Nothing by Jamie Fitzpatrick
Un parent affectionné
by Michel Ducharme
Book(s) reviewed:
- Lettres à sa famille: 1803-1871 by Louis-Joseph Papineau, Georges Aubin, and Renée Blanchet
L'utopie de Beaulieu
by Michel Nareau
Book(s) reviewed:
- Antiterre: Utopium by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
Dreams and Inspirations
by Renate Eigenbrod
Book(s) reviewed:
- Louis: The Heretic Poems by Gregory Scofield
- Runaway Dreams by Richard Wagamese
- The Next Sure Thing by Richard Wagamese
Literature in BC
by Mark Diotte
Book(s) reviewed:
- Never Going Back by Antonia Banyard
- Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny by Caroline Woodward
- The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors by Alan Twigg
Canadian Picture Books
by Judith Saltman
Book(s) reviewed:
- Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog by Tim Beiser and Rachel Berman
- Josepha: A Prairie Boy’s Story by Jim McGugan and Murray Kimber
- Seal Song by Andrea Spalding and Pascal Milelli
- Sindbad: From the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights by Ludmila Zeman
Border-Crossing Debuts
by Hannah McGregor
Book(s) reviewed:
- Because I Have Loved and Hidden It by Elise Moser
- Lingering Tide and Other Stories by Latha Viswanathan
- Sweetness From Ashes by Marlyn Horsdal
(Inter)National Art
by Richard Brock
Book(s) reviewed:
- Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven by Ross King
Des solitudes parallèles (scènes de vies de province)
by Krzysztof Jarosz
Book(s) reviewed:
- La nuit des morts-vivants by François Blais
De la maïeutique des idées
by Stéphanie Desrochers
Book(s) reviewed:
- Le recueil de Dorais: Volume I—Les essais by Fernand Dorais
The Hybridity Revolution
by Michelle La Flamme
Book(s) reviewed:
- Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out by Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson
Les pieuses reliques
by Serge Fournier
Book(s) reviewed:
- L’Heure des vaches et autres récits du terroir: Choix des textes et présentation by Denis Saint-Jacques and Marie-José des Rivières
Fiction from Saskatchewan
by Paul Denham
Book(s) reviewed:
- Bone Coulee by Larry Warwaruk
- Mennonites Don’t Dance by Darcie Friesen Hossack
- The Forest Horses by Byrna Barclay
Tons de blanc
by Thierry Bissonnette
Book(s) reviewed:
- Le bruissement des possibles by Antoine Boisclair
Le théâtre à Montréal
by Jean-Marc Larrue
Book(s) reviewed:
- De l’acteur vedette au théâtre de festival: Histoire des pratiques scéniques montréalaises 1940-1980 by Sylvain Schryburt
Les enfants sans paradis
by Dania Sheldon
Book(s) reviewed:
- Miss Take by Réjean Ducharme and Will Browning
- Wandering Souls in Paradise Lost by Helene Rioux and Jonathan Kaplansky
Quelques mots du Québec
by Bruno Courbon
Book(s) reviewed:
- Les dictionnaires de la langue française au Québec: de la Nouvelle-France à aujourd’hui by Monique C. Cormier and Jean-Claude Boulanger
Pathos and Presence
by Michelle La Flamme
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Difficult Beauty by David Groulx
Reading the City
by Christine Lorre-Johnston
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Measure of Paris by Stephen Scobie
Girlhoods of Difference
by Margaret Steffler
Book(s) reviewed:
- And Me Among Them by Kristen den Hartog
- House of Spells by Robert Pepper-Smith
- The Last River Child by Lori Ann Bloomfield
Girlhoods of Difference
by Margaret Steffler
Book(s) reviewed:
- And Me Among Them by Kristen den Hartog
- House of Spells by Robert Pepper-Smith
- The Last River Child by Lori Ann Bloomfield
Reading Masculinity
by Jennifer Hardwick
Book(s) reviewed:
- Facing the Hunter: Reflections on a Misunderstood Way of Life by David Adams Richards
- Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice by Christine Ramsay
- Toby: A Man by Todd Babiak
Ce monstre, Ducharme
by Kenneth Meadwell
Book(s) reviewed:
- L'abécédaire des monstres : Fragments de Réjean Ducharme by Marie-Hélène Larochelle
Emancipatory Theory?
by Rachael Gardner
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Creolization of Theory by Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih
To Teach and Delight
by Danette DiMarco
Book(s) reviewed:
- Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake by J. Brooks Bouson
Black Chronicles
by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
Book(s) reviewed:
- Chronicles: Early Works by Dionne Brand
- Grease Town by Ann Towell
- What’s a Black Critic to Do II: Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers by Donna Bailey Nurse
Sense and Senselessness
by Heidi Butler
Book(s) reviewed:
- Blood Relatives by Craig Francis Power
- Sheilagh’s Brush by Maura Hanrahan
Peripheries of Fear
by Daniel Burgoyne
Book(s) reviewed:
- Peripheral Fear: Transformations of the Gothic in Canadian and Australian Fiction by Gerry Turcotte
How Free is Free?
by Nanette Norris
Book(s) reviewed:
- Silver by Pablo Urbanyi
- The Free World by David Bezmozgis
Haunted Histories, Storied Selves
by Erin Wunker
Book(s) reviewed:
- Girl Unwrapped by Gabriella Goliger
- The Obituary by Gail Scott
Living in a Learning Way
by Sylvie Vranckx
Book(s) reviewed:
- News: Postcards from the Four Directions by Drew Hayden Taylor
- One Story, One Song by Richard Wagamese
Striking a Balance
by Jodi Lundgren
Book(s) reviewed:
- After the Red Night by Sheila Fischman and Christiane Frenette
- The Big Dream: Stories by Rebecca Rosenblum
- This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories by Johanna Skibsrud
Finding St. Demetrius
by Lindy Ledohowski
Book(s) reviewed:
- Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium by Myrna Kostash
Holocaust Resurfacing
by Ilana Finkleman
Book(s) reviewed:
- Forgetting the Holocaust by Ron Charach
- Turning the Corner at Dusk by Jacquie Buncel
Hidden and Exposed in British Columbia
by Reece Steinberg
Book(s) reviewed:
- 4 Poets by Daniela Elza, Peter Morin, Al Rempel, and Onjana Yawnghwe
- A Thoroughly Wicked Woman: Murder, Perjury & Trial by Newspaper by Betty Keller
- And See What Happens: The Journey Poems by Ursula Vaira
- Edge of the Sound: Memoirs of a West Coast Log Salvager by Jo Hammond
- Seeing Lessons by Catherine Owen
Getting High on Writing
by Alessandra Capperdoni
Book(s) reviewed:
- Horizontal Surfaces by George Bowering
- How I Wrote Certain of My Books by George Bowering
"Unhinge yourself"
by Hilary Clark
Book(s) reviewed:
- Endgames by Andrew Stubbs
- From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel by Eli Mandel
- Gimp Crow by Ken Kowal
Écrire octobre
by André Lamontagne
Book(s) reviewed:
- La constellation du lynx by Louis Hamelin
Sous le signe de la mort
by Valérie Lebrun
Book(s) reviewed:
- Les derniers jours de Smokey Nelson by Catherine Mavrikakis
Messages et bouteilles
by Ben Huberman
Book(s) reviewed:
- Écrire au pape et au Père Noël : Cabinet de curiosités épistolaires by Benoît Melançon
Everyday Oddities
by Margo Gouley
Book(s) reviewed:
- Letters to Omar by Rachel Wyatt
- Spaz by Bonnie Bowman
Abject Hero
by Alan Filewod
Book(s) reviewed:
- Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune by Roderick Stewart and Sharon Stewart
Vivre à l'ombre du mal
by Krzysztof Jarosz
Book(s) reviewed:
- Guyana by Elise Turcotte
Explorations d’une double solitude
by Christine Otis
Book(s) reviewed:
- La Conscience du désert by Michel Biron
Apprendre à (s’)écrire
by Fanie St-Laurent
Book(s) reviewed:
- Je voudrais bien être un homme : Correspondance inédite entre Simone Routier et Harry Bernard by Guy Gaudreau and Micheline Tremblay
Sur la terre comme au ciel, l’Acadie ?
by Thierry Sauzeau
Book(s) reviewed:
- L’Acadie des origines by Jean Morency, James de Finney, and Hélène Destrempes
La littérature québécoise, versant mâle
by Benoît Trudel
Book(s) reviewed:
- Au-delà du nom : La question du père dans la littérature québécoise actuelle by Lori Saint-Martin
- Être ou ne pas être un homme : La masculinité dans le roman québécois by Victor-Laurent Tremblay
La littérature québécoise, versant mâle
by Benoît Trudel
Book(s) reviewed:
- Au-delà du nom : La question du père dans la littérature québécoise actuelle by Lori Saint-Martin
- Être ou ne pas être un homme : La masculinité dans le roman québécois by Victor-Laurent Tremblay
Envisioning Resurgence
by Dory Nason
Book(s) reviewed:
- In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women’s Poetry by Jennifer Andrews
- The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story by Marie Clements and Rita Leistner
Dans la nuit du poème
by Jean-Noël Pontbriand
Book(s) reviewed:
- Dans la nuit du poème by Jacques Brault
Poèmes (1975-1984)
by Jean-Noël Pontbriand
Book(s) reviewed:
- Poèmes (1975-1984) by Michel Beaulieu
Écrire in two languages
by Catherine Khordoc
Book(s) reviewed:
- Des langues en partage? : Cohabitation du français et de l’anglais en littérature contemporaine by Catherine Leclerc
Passionate Ellipsis
by Sarah Dowling
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Good Time Had by All by Meaghan Strimas
- Fieldnotes, a Forensic by Kate Eichhorn
- Recipes from the Red Planet by Meredith Quartermain
Breathing Fire into Life
by Katie Mullins
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Blue Dragon by Robert Lepage, Marie Michaud, and Fred Jourdain
Signifier Desire
by Gregory Betts
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing by Clint Burnham
Keeping in Touch
by Neta Gordon
Book(s) reviewed:
- Exit by Nelly Arcan
- Love Ruins Everything by Karen X. Tulchinsky
- Missed Her: Stories by Ivan E. Coyote
Wilderness as Myth and Form
by Richard Brock
Book(s) reviewed:
- Reflective Landscapes of the Anglophone Countries by Pascale Guibert
- Wilderness as Myth and Form by Wayne Larsen
Staging Québécité
by Pamela V. Sing
Book(s) reviewed:
- National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion by Erin Hurley
Pop Guns
by Timothy Dugdale
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Good Man by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
The Good, the Bland, the Quirky
by Joel Martineau
Book(s) reviewed:
- All Those Drawn to Me by Christian Petersen
- Tenderman by Tim Bowling
- Two O'Clock Creek: Poems New and Selected by Bruce Hunter
Politically Un-signified
by Megan Ruttan
Book(s) reviewed:
- Clockfire by Jonathan Ball
- Cop Kisser by Steven Zultanski
- Psychic Geographies and Other Topics by Gregory Betts
Poésies diverses
by Amélie Dorais
Book(s) reviewed:
- L’épreuve de la distance : Proses et poèmes by Denise Brassard
- La nuit de la muette by France Theoret
- Plus haut que les flammes by Louise Dupré
The Dark Side of Progress
by Renate Eigenbrod
Book(s) reviewed:
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- Progress: A Novel by Michael V. Smith
Momentous Gap on Quebec’s Literary Map
by Judit Molnár
Book(s) reviewed:
- Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis by Linda Leith
The Shape of Our Times
by Stephen Dunning
Book(s) reviewed:
- Fanatics by William Bell
- Ghost Moon by John Wilson
- The Edge of When by Carol Matas
Reclamation and Decay
by M. Sean Saunders
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Possible Madness by Frank Macdonald
- Mongrel by Marko Sijan
- You Comma Idiot by Doug Harris
Death and Transcendence
by Justin Shaw
Book(s) reviewed:
- Reliving Charlie by Dean Serravalle
- Snowmen by Mark Sedore
- The Bottle Collector by Tom Managhan
Trans-atlantic/lations
by Nicole Nolette
Book(s) reviewed:
- Transatlantic Passages: Literary and Cultural Relations between Quebec and Francophone Europe by Paula Ruth Gilbert and Miléna Santoro
- Translating Women by Luise von Flotow
Posthuman in Waterloo
by Rick Gooding
Book(s) reviewed:
- Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
- Watch by Robert J. Sawyer
- Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer
New Translations for a New Body of Women’s Writing
by Kailin Wright
Book(s) reviewed:
- Anthology of Québec Women’s Plays in English Translation: Volume III (1997-2009) by Louise H. Forsyth
Mottled Motherhood
by Micheline Besner
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Large Harmonium by Sue Sorensen
- In the Field by Claire Tacon
- Kalila by Rosemary Nixon
Vancouver nostalgique
by Nicolas Kenny
Book(s) reviewed:
- At the World’s Edge: Curt Lang’s Vancouver, 1937-1998 by Claudia Cornwall
- The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver by Chuck Davis
- Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960 by John Belshaw and Diane Purvey
Return of The Golden Dog
by Cynthia Sugars
Book(s) reviewed:
- Le Chien d’or/The Golden Dog: A Legend of Quebec by William Kirby and Mary Jane Edwards
The Remains of Identity
by Guy Beauregard
Book(s) reviewed:
- Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture by Rey Chow
- The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature by Christopher Lee
Shave the Milk Mustache
by Crystal Hurdle
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Matter of Life and Death or Something by Ben Stephenson
- A Tinfoil Sky by Cyndi Sand-Eveland
- One in Every Crowd: Stories by Ivan E. Coyote
Silent Casualties
by Sherrill Grace
Book(s) reviewed:
- Boys and Girls in No Man's Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War by Susan R. Fisher
always reconstructing
by Maia Joseph
Book(s) reviewed:
- Autobiography of Childhood by Sina Queyras
Dialectical
by Jeffrey Donaldson
Book(s) reviewed:
- Necessity of Opposites: The Dialectical Thinking of Northrop Frye by Brian Russel Graham
- Remembering Northrop Frye: Recollections by His Students and Others in the 1940s and 1950s by Robert D. Denman
storee lines
by Weldon Hunter
Book(s) reviewed:
- novel by bill bissett
- textual vishyuns: image and text in the work of bill bissett by Carl Peters
Une nation à enseigner
by Marilyse Turgeon-Solis
Book(s) reviewed:
- Leçons de littérature: Un siècle de manuels scolaires au Québec by Karine Cellard
Mythical Worlds
by Gordon Bölling
Book(s) reviewed:
- Monoceros by Suzette Mayr
- Touch by Alexi Zentner
La bataille du livre
by Olivier Lapointe
Book(s) reviewed:
- Histoire de l'édition littéraire au Québec au XXe siècle, Vol. 3: La bataille du livre 1960-2000 by Jacques Michon
Repeating Stories
by Sam Knowles
Book(s) reviewed:
- Crisp by R. W. Gray
- The Secret Keepers by Paul Yee
At Home and Abroad
by Mark Diotte
Book(s) reviewed:
- Come from Afar by Gayla Reid
- Is it Just?: A Classic Feminist Novel by Minnie Smith
- The Time We All Went Marching by Arley McNeney
Enfant du XXe siècle
by Adina Balint-Babos
Book(s) reviewed:
- L'homme blanc by Perrine Leblanc
In the Wake of Art and Beauty
by Marie Lo
Book(s) reviewed:
- Beauty Plus City by Kevin Chong
- The Better Mother by Jen Sookfong Lee
Raw Power
by Jim Johnstone
Book(s) reviewed:
- Campfire Radio Rhapsody by Robert Earl Stewart
- Goodbye, Ukulele by Leigh Nash
- Hooligans by Lillian Necakov
- Stray Dog Embassy by Natasha Nuhanovic
- The Crystal Palace by Carey Toane
Plays for Acadian Youth
by Jane Moss
Book(s) reviewed:
- Pierre, Hélène et Michael suivi de Cap enragé by Herménégilde Chiasson
Modern Realism Rethought
by Marc André Fortin
Book(s) reviewed:
- Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction by Colin Hill
Crime Pays
by Joel Martineau
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Disciple of Las Vegas by Ian Hamilton
- The Red Pole of Macau by Ian Hamilton
- The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton
- The Wild Beasts of Wuhan by Ian Hamilton
Location, Location
by Julie Cairnie
Book(s) reviewed:
- Gas Girls by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
- Jewels and Other Stories by Dawn Promislow
Dubois on Frye
by Brian Russell Graham
Book(s) reviewed:
- Northrop Frye in Context by Diane Dubois
The Toxicity of Violence
by Joel Martineau
Book(s) reviewed:
- Why Men Lie by Linden MacIntyre
Le corps du Christ
by Julia Hains
Book(s) reviewed:
- Le Christ obèse by Larry Tremblay
Enabling Emotion
by Veronique Dorais Ram
Book(s) reviewed:
- (In)Visible Images: Seeing Disability in Canadian Literature, 1823-1974 by Maria Truchan-Tataryn
- The Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories by Keith Oatley
Euphorie hivernale
by Benoit Bordeleau
Book(s) reviewed:
- Un parisien au pays des pingouins by Stéphane Ledien
Carnet de voyage
by Charles Dionne
Book(s) reviewed:
- Huit sorties by Gilles Cyr
Post-Abyssal Thinking
by Élise Couture-Grondin
Book(s) reviewed:
- Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada by Grace Li Xiu Woo
- Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community by Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber
A Quintessence of Poetry
by Travis V. Mason
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Walker in the City by Méira Cook
- dear Hermes... by Michelle Smith
- Killdeer by Phil Hall
- The Mommiad by Sky Gilbert
- Whiteout by George Murray
Battle in the Woods
by Lisa Szabo-Jones
Book(s) reviewed:
- Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe by Charlotte Gill
- This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge by Mark Leiren-Young and Tzeporah Berman
Object-relations
by Erin Wunker
Book(s) reviewed:
- Bent at the Spine by Nicole Markotić
- Match by Helen Guri
Land, Identity, Community
by Jasmine Johnston
Book(s) reviewed:
- Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Indigeneity by Pamela D. Palmater
- Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts by Bruce Granville Miller
- The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak by Priscilla Settee
Copyright and Canadian Publishing
by Sara Bannerman
Book(s) reviewed:
- Dominion and Agency: Copyright and the Structuring of the Canadian Book Trade 1867-1918 by Eli MacLaren
Occupying Change
by Julie L. MacArthur
Book(s) reviewed:
- Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change by Stephen Collis
Histories of Girlhood
by Hannah McGregor
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Goodtime Girl by Tess Fragoulis
- The Western Light by Susan Swan
Of Love, War, and Stories
by Maude Lapierre
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Emperor of Paris by C. S. Richardson
- Thirst by Shree Ghatage
Le Canada anglais
by Gillian Lane-Mercier
Book(s) reviewed:
- La Canada anglais de Jacques Ferron (1960-1970): Formes, fonctions et représentations by Susan Margaret Murphy
DOLAM
by Vincent Bouchard
Book(s) reviewed:
- Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires de l’Acadie des Maritimes du XXe siècle by Janine Gallant and Maurice Raymond
Évocations de l'absence
by Philippe Archambault
Book(s) reviewed:
- La Légende des anonymes et autres promenades by Jéremie Leduc-Leblanc
Le Canada francophone à la portée des étudiants
by Françoise Le Jeune
Book(s) reviewed:
- Introduction aux études canadiennes: Histoires, identités, cultures by Colin M. Coates and Geoffrey Ewen
Un traditionaliste en avance
by Réjean Beaudoin
Book(s) reviewed:
- Un moderne à rebours: Biographie intellectuelle et artistique de Pierre Vadeboncœur by Jonathan Livernois
Le français en question
by Chantal Phan
Book(s) reviewed:
- L’Introuvable unité du français: Contacts et variations linguistiques en Europe et en Amérique (XIIe-XVIIIe siècle) by Serge Lusignan, France Martineau, Yves Charles Morin, and Paul Cohen
Remembering CanStudies
by Martin Kuester
Book(s) reviewed:
- Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis by Christl Verduyn and Jane Koustas
- Settling and Unsettling Memories: Essays in Canadian Public History by Nicole Neatby and Peter Hodgins
Looking for Happiness
by Maria Noëlle Ng
Book(s) reviewed:
- Extensions by Myrna Dey
- The Year of Broken Glass by Joe Denham
National Cosmopolitanism
by Emily Johansen
Book(s) reviewed:
- Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World by Will Kymlicka and Kathryn Walker
Shifting Cadences
by Ranbir K. Banwait
Book(s) reviewed:
- Everything Was Good-bye by Gurjinder Basran
- language is not the only thing that breaks by Proma Tagore
- Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems by Rishma Dunlop
- White Album by Rishma Dunlop and Suzanne Northcott
Restless Pages
by Kevin McNeilly
Book(s) reviewed:
- Distillō by Basma Kavanagh
- Form of Forms by Mark Goldstein
- Medallions of Belief by Fred Wah
- Methodist Hatchet by Ken Babstock
- restless white fields by Barbara Langhorst
Secret Lives of Letters
by Melissa Dalgeish
Book(s) reviewed:
- Conflict by Christine McNair
- IKMQ by Roger Farr
- Repeater by Andrew McEwan
- The Qwerty Institute: Annual Report by Angela Szczepaniak
Women, Work, and War
by Jan Lermitte
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw
Postcards from Home
by Louise Young
Book(s) reviewed:
- Asian Skies by Ken Norris
- Sharawadji by Brian Henderson
- Swimming Ginger by Gary Geddes
- The Terracotta Army by Gary Geddes
Panicked Laments
by David Leahy
Book(s) reviewed:
- Mahler's Lament by Deborah Kirshner
- The Panic Button by Koom Kankesan
Peindre l’instant, écrire le réel
by Molleen Shilliday
Book(s) reviewed:
- De Kooning malgré lui by Michaël La Chance
The Past Revised
by Denyse Lynde
Book(s) reviewed:
- Bingo! by Daniel MacIvor
- Lenin's Embalmers by Vern Thiessen
- Living Curiosities or What You Will by Mary Vingoe
Sommation à voir le jour
by Anne-Claire Marpeau
Book(s) reviewed:
- Burqa de chair by Nelly Arcan
Eastern Promises
by Lee Frew
Book(s) reviewed:
- Kin by Lesley Crewe
- New Under the Sun by Kevin Major
- The Rest Is Silence by Scott Fotheringham
Voyage au Kanyada
by Vincent Desroches
Book(s) reviewed:
- La Tribu de Sangwa by Melchior Mbonimpa
Le cœur et d'éloquence
by Sébastien Drouin
Book(s) reviewed:
- Entretiens sur l’éloquence et la littérature de Joseph-Sabin Raymond : Édition critique by Marc André Bernier and Marie Lise Laquerre
Reflets fictionnels, questions interculturelles
by Nicolas Beauclair
Book(s) reviewed:
- Le Silence obscène des miroirs by Daniel Castillo Durante
Swimming with Feminists
by Kathryn Barnwell
Book(s) reviewed:
- Not Drowning but Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts by Jeanne Perreault, Susan Brown, Jo-ann Wallace, and Heather Zwicker
Diaspora at Home
by Dina Al-Kassim
Book(s) reviewed:
- Adrift by Loren Edizel
- Echoes from the Other Land by Ava Homa
- Our Friendly Local Terrorist by Mary Jo Leddy
The Art of Losing
by Lorraine York
Book(s) reviewed:
- Life Is About Losing Everything by Lynn Crosbie
- Mad Hope by Heather Birrell
- Malarky by Anakana Schofield
Olson Happens
by Clint Burnham
Book(s) reviewed:
- Muthologos: Lectures and Interviews by Charles Olson and Ralph Maud
- When TISH Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's "Most Influential Literary Magazine" by Frank Davey
Placing Canadian Literature in the America
by Debra Dudek
Book(s) reviewed:
- Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations by Winfried Siemerling and Sarah Philips Casteel
- The New North American Studies: Culture, Writing and the Politics of Re/Cognition by Winfried Siemerling
Untitled
by W. H. New
Book(s) reviewed:
Metafictional Historical Novels
by Nora Tunkel
Book(s) reviewed:
- History in the Making: Metafiktion im neueren anglokanadischen historischen Roman by Gordon Bölling
Back in That Skin Again
by Joel Martineau
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Macken Charm by Jack Hodgins
Au-delà de l'hommage
by Dominique Perron
Book(s) reviewed:
- Actes du colloque international "Gabrielle Roy" by André Fauchon
Found in Translation
by Katharine Conley
Book(s) reviewed:
- Paris Québec by Stephen Scobie, Marie Vautier, and Claudine Bertrand
Dispelling the Shadows
by Susan Gingell
Book(s) reviewed:
- Dipped in Shadow by Claire Harris
- Fables from the Women's Quarters by Claire Harris
- The Conception of Winter by Claire Harris
Untitled
by George Woodcock
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Trust Betrayed: The Keegsta Affair by David Berguson and Douglas Wertheimer
Untitled
by George Woodcock
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Trust Betrayed: The Keegsta Affair by David Berguson and Douglas Wertheimer
Untitled
by Laurie Ricou
Book(s) reviewed:
Journey to the Inner Self
by Stefan Haag
Book(s) reviewed:
- An der Grenze: Reise nach Quyta Wissenschaftlicher by Helmut Markus
Charting Indigenous Pasts and Futures
by Keavy Martin
Book(s) reviewed:
- Lines Drawn upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands by Karl S. Hele
- Where the Pavement Ends: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation by Marie Wadden
La polysémie de l'altérité
by Jorge Calderón
Book(s) reviewed:
- Altérité et insularité: Relations croisées dans les cultures francophone by Alessandra Ferraro
- L'Autre en mémoire by Dominique Laporte
Untitled
by W. H. New
Book(s) reviewed:
- Contemporaire La Poésie Québécoise by Jean Royer
Reference: 160
by W. H. New
Book(s) reviewed:
Varied Voices
by Darlene Shatford
Book(s) reviewed:
- Shall: Ghazals by Catherine Owen
- The Octopus and Other Poems by Jennica Harper
- The Refrigerator Memory by Shannon Bramer
Une femme de son temps
by Mélanie Collado
Book(s) reviewed:
- Louise Dupré: Le Québec au féminin by Anne-Marie Jézéquel
Women Writing Women
by A. Mary Murphy
Book(s) reviewed:
- I Married the Klondike by Laura Beatrice Berton
- Literary Sisterhoods: Imagining Women Artists by Deborah Heller
De l'espace et du temps
by Emmanuel Bouchard
Book(s) reviewed:
- L'étincelle suffit à la constellation by René Laubiès, Frédèric Benrath, Julius Baltazar, and Guy Cloutier
- La Grande Sortie by Pierre Raphaël Pelletier
- Sur le parvis des nuages by Marcil Cossette
Cool Water May Just Break Your Heart
by Lindy Ledohowski
Book(s) reviewed:
- Cool Water by Dianne Warren
Vintage
by George Woodcock
Book(s) reviewed:
- Piling Blood by Al Purdy
Plain Talk and New Idioms
by Glenn Deer
Book(s) reviewed:
- Defying New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression by Eckhard Breitinger
- The Emperor's New Clothes: Literature, Literacy and the Ideology of Style by Kathryn T. Flannery
Four Québec Novel(la)s
by Dean J. Irvine
Book(s) reviewed:
- Badass on a Softail by T. F. Rigelhof
- Impala by Daniel Sloate and Carole David
- Maude by Suzanne Jacob and Luise von Flowtow
- Stained Glass by Concetta Principe
Untitled
by George Woodcock
Book(s) reviewed:
- A New Endeavor: Selected Political Essays, Letters, and Addresses by Michiel Horne
