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Entre essai et roman
by Sébastien Couvrette
Book(s) reviewed:
- Pourquoi j’ai fondé Le Devoir: Henri Bourassa et son temps by Mario Cardinal
National Storytelling
by Brenna Clarke Gray
Book(s) reviewed:
- Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
- The Little Shadows by Marina Endicott
Critical Ecology and Critical Theory
by Lisa Szabo-Jones
Book(s) reviewed:
- Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises by Andrew Biro
A Green Turn: Western Canadian Writers and Ecofiction
by Rebecca Raglon
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
Canaries in the Coalmine
by David Leahy
Book(s) reviewed:
- Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature by Herb Wyile
The Silvering Screen
by Josephine Dolan
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema by Sally Chivers
Telling, Retelling, and Rebelling
by Patricia Godbout
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Memoirist, Translator, and Pornographer by Brian Busby
Textual (De)colonizations
by Renate Eigenbrod
Book(s) reviewed:
- First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship by Sophie McCall
Fragile Lives
by Irene Gammel
Book(s) reviewed:
- Benevolence by Cynthia Holz
- Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards
Only Connect
by Stella Algoo-Baksh
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das by Merrily Weisbord
Canada: Migration and Exile
by Suzanne Marshall
Book(s) reviewed:
- Fluid Exile: Jewish Exile Writers in Canada 1940-2006 by Eugen Banauch
- Migration and Fiction: Narratives of Migration in Contemporary Canadian Literature by Martin Loschnigg and Maria Löschnigg
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
Queer Retrospectives
by Moynan King
Book(s) reviewed:
- Outspoken: A Canadian Collection of Lesbian Scenes and Monologues by Susan G. Cole
- Queer Theatre in Canada by Rosalind Kerr
- This One's Going to Last Forever by Nairne Holtz
Textures
by Laurie Ricou
Book(s) reviewed:
- Deepwater Vee by Melanie Siebert
- Mnemonic: A Book of Trees by Theresa Kishkan
True and Not So True
by Karen Charleson
Book(s) reviewed:
- As Long as the Rivers Flow by James Bartleman
- Grandpère by Janet Romain
- Northern Kids by Linda Goyette
Stick Pen
by Laurie Ricou
Book(s) reviewed:
- Canadian Hockey Literature by Jason Blake
- Footprints: Canadian Sports Stories: Summer by Dave Toms
- Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey by Jamie Dopp and Richard Harrison
- Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman by Sheema Khan
- Saskatchewan Sports: Lives Past and Present by Holden Stoffel
- Sport in Canada: A History by Don Morrow and Kevin B. Wamsley
Genus Envy
by Owen Percy
Book(s) reviewed:
- Ape House by Sara Gruen
- The Honey Locust by Jeffery Round
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
Telling Secrets
by Tim Blackmore
Book(s) reviewed:
- Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death and the Superhero by Richard Harrison and Lee Easton
Women in Sport
by Helene Staveley
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Thousand Shades of Blue by Robin Stevenson
- Checkout Girl by Susan Zettell
- Post by Arley McNeney
L’histoire, autrement?
by Valérie Lebrun
Book(s) reviewed:
- Histoire littéraire des femmes : cas et enjeux by Chantal Savoie
Lesbian and Gay Plays for Posterity
by T.L. Cowan
Book(s) reviewed:
- Lesbian Plays: Coming of Age in Canada by Rosalind Kerr
- Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays by Sky Gilbert
Sui Generis
by Hilary Turner
Book(s) reviewed:
- Catching Time by Rachna Gilmore
- Fishing with Gubby by Kim LaFave and Gary Kent
- Great Lakes and Rugged Ground: Imagining Ontario by Sarah N. Harvey and Leslie Buffam
- The Nightwood by Robin Muller
Puritan Morality Tales Return for Young Readers
by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek
Book(s) reviewed:
- Follow the Elephant by Beryl Young
- Ghost of Heroes Past by Charles Reid
Poetry After Poetry
by Clint Burnham
Book(s) reviewed:
- Fond by Kate Eichhorn
- Inventory by Marguerite Pigeon
- sublingual by bill bissett
Awash in Linguistic (and Intestinal) Doubt
by Christine Stewart
Book(s) reviewed:
- Expeditions of a Chimæra by Erín Moure and Oana Avasilichioaei
- The Exile Book of Poetry in Translation: 20 Canadian Poets Take on the World by Priscila Uppal
"good lip / service"
by Paul Watkins
Book(s) reviewed:
- Embouchure by Kevin McNeilly
Familiar and Strange
by Moberley Luger
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth by Stephanie Bolster
- Redemption Rain by Jennifer Rahim
- Vox Humana by E. Alex Pierce
Telling Stories
by Gisèle M. Baxter
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Hare in the Elephant's Trunk by Jan L. Coates
- Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison by Cathleen With
Animal Laughter
by Clint Burnham
Book(s) reviewed:
- Animals by Don LePan
- The Prescription Errors by Charles Demers
Mortality and Memory
by Paul Kennett
Book(s) reviewed:
- Athena Becomes a Swallow and Other Voices from the Odyssey by Brent MacLaine
- Never More There by Stephen Rowe
- The Rope-maker's Tale by W. H. New
Elemental Voices
by Robert Lecker
Book(s) reviewed:
- Modern Canadian Poets by Todd Swift and Evan Jones
- Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry by Susan McMaster
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
Poémes de l'Origine
by Stéphane Girard
Book(s) reviewed:
- Tant de Vie s'égare by Andrée Lacelle
Theatrical Criticism in Montreal at the Turn of the Century: Trapped Between Ideology and Aesthetics
by Dominique Lafon
Book(s) reviewed:
- L’Éveil culturel: Théâtre et presse à Montréal, 1898-1914 by Hervé Guay
Uncomfortable Angels
by Daniel Burgoyne
Book(s) reviewed:
- &: A Serial Poem by Daryl Hine
- Downriver: Poems with a prose memoir and a story by M.T. Kelly
- Patient Frame by Steven Heighton
Texte et image
by Emmanuel Bouchard
Book(s) reviewed:
- L’essence scripturale du trait gravé : Les livres d’artiste de Lucie Lambert by Réjean Beaudoin
Vues sur l’ossuaire
by Daniel Laforest
Book(s) reviewed:
- La voix et l’os: Imaginaire de l’ascèse chez Saint-Denys Garneau et Samuel Beckett by Frédérique Bernier
Poems of Sensual Clutter
by Emily Wall
Book(s) reviewed:
- I Can Still Draw by Heather Spears
- Our Extraordinary Monsters by Vanessa Moeller
- The Chimney Stone by Rob Winger
Writing Chinese Diaspora
by Shao-Pin Luo
Book(s) reviewed:
- Lily in the Snow by Yan Li
Not Just for Children
by Dee Horne
Book(s) reviewed:
- Fox on the Ice / Maageesees Maskwameek Kaapit by Tomson Highway and Brian Deines
- Tales from the Tundra: A Collection of Inuit Stories by Ibi Kaslik, Louise Flaherty, and Anthony Brennan
- The Caribou Feed Our Soul by Pete Enzoe, Mindy Willett, and Tessa Macintosh
Contemplating Nostalgia
by Alexis Foo
Book(s) reviewed:
- Beckett Soundings by Inge Israel
- Burning House by Richard Lemm
- The Truth of Houses by Ann Snowcroft
Anishinaabenendamon
by Margaret Noori
Book(s) reviewed:
- Think Indian: Languages Are Beyond Price by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Basil Johnson
Flânerie, Tragedy
by Mark Harris
Book(s) reviewed:
- Tout bouge autour de moi by Dany Laferrière
A Poetics of Spatiality
by Michael Roberson
Book(s) reviewed:
- Annihilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics by Jeff Derksen
- Shadows on a Wall by Charles E. Israel
- The Enchanted Adder by Rona Murray
Dynamic Equivalences
by Sylvie Vranckx
Book(s) reviewed:
- “That’s Raven Talk”: Holophrastic Readings of Contemporary Indigenous Literatures by Mareike Neuhaus
Digital Innovation
by Karl Jirgens
Book(s) reviewed:
- Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology by E. Dianne Looker and Ted D. Naylor
- The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History by R. Douglas Francis
- Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine
Formally Enlightening
by Neil Querengesser
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Pirouette and Gone by E.D. Blodgett
- Apostrophes VII: Sleep, You, a Tree by E.D. Blodgett
- Praha by E.D. Blodgett and Marzia Paton
What They Wished For
by Seth Feldman
Book(s) reviewed:
- Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard
- Joyce Wieland’s ‘The Far Shore.’ by Johanne Sloan
- Wild at Heart: The Films of Nettie Wild by Mark Harris and Claudia Medina
Permanence de la fissure
by Élise Lepage
Book(s) reviewed:
- Poèmes anglais: Le pays de personne: La fissure de la fiction by Patrice Desbiens
Recollecting Home
by Jodi Lundgren
Book(s) reviewed:
- Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada by Paul Chamberlain
- Looking Back: Canadian Women’s Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity by S. Leigh Matthews
Literary Thrills
by Brandon McFarlane
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Blue Light Project by Timothy Taylor
- The Guardians by Andrew Pyper
Face à l'autre
by Jean-Pierre Thomas
Book(s) reviewed:
- Les fossoyeurs by André Lamontagne
- Ru by Kim Thúy
From Person to Song
by Michael Roberson
Book(s) reviewed:
- Indexical Elegies by Jon Paul Fiorentino
- The Dust of Just Beginning by Don Kerr
- The Porcupinity of the Stars by Gary Barwin
- The Scare in the Crow by Tammy Armstrong
Chewing Through Poetry
by Zöe Landale
Book(s) reviewed:
- Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon by Ray Hsu
- Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children by Amatoritsero Ede
- Maple Leaf Rag by Kaie Kellough
David Meet David
by Douglas Barbour
Book(s) reviewed:
- Watermelon Kindness by David Donnell
- Why Are You So Long and Sweet: Collected Long Poems by David W. McFadden
Poetry's Where is [T]here?
by Crystal Hurdle
Book(s) reviewed:
- (made) by Cara Benson
- In the Millennium by Barry McKinnon
- Lost Gospels by Lorri Neilsen Glenn
- The Secret Signature of Things by Eve Joseph
Faire son chemin parmi les ombres
by Ariane Audet
Book(s) reviewed:
- Marcher pieds nus sur nos disparitions by Lyne Richard
National Pasts, Posts, and Futures
by Robert Zacharias
Book(s) reviewed:
- Canada: Images of a Post/National Society by Gunilla Florby, Mark Shackleton, and Katri Suhonen
- Global Realignments and the Canadian Nation in the Third Milennium by Karin Ikas
- National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada by Andrea Cabajsky
Of Violence and Poetry
by Atef Laouyene
Book(s) reviewed:
- Alien, Correspondent by Antony Di Nardo
- Back in the Days by Addena Sumter-Freitag
- To Love a Palestinian Woman by Ehab Lotayef
Rééditer le mystère
by Ariane Tremblay
Book(s) reviewed:
- À force de mystère: Oeuvre poétique 1958-1974 by Ronald Després
Sous le signe d'Hermès: voyages poétiques...
by Mélanie Collado
Book(s) reviewed:
- Ce que vous ne lirez pas by Nadine Ltaif
- Italie et autres voyages by Fulvio Caccia
- Miniatures sidérales by Mona Latif-Ghattas and Teymour Toutounji
Les enjeux de la littérature franco-ontarienne
by Melanie Bennett
Book(s) reviewed:
- Introduction à la littérature franco-ontarienne by Johanne Melançon and Lucie Hotte
Contra-dictions des Amériques
by Emir Delic
Book(s) reviewed:
- Récits nord-américains d'émergence : culture, écriture et politique de re/connaissance by Winfried Siemerling and Patricia Godbout
Animal Book Mix
by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek
Book(s) reviewed:
- Cursed! by Maureen Bush
- The Last Loon by Rebecca Upjohn
- The Sea Wolves by Nicholas Read
- Uumajut: Learn About Arctic Wildlife! by Simon Awa, Anna Ziegler, Stephanie McDonald, Neil Christopher, Flaherty Louise, Leah Otak, and Caron Romi
Les voyages forment le Québec
by Laure Tollard
Book(s) reviewed:
- La Chute du mur by Annie Cloutier
- La maudite Québécoise by Janis Locas
- Peaux de chagrins by Diane Vincent
Otherworldly Canadian Collections
by Carolyne Van Der Meer
Book(s) reviewed:
- Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction by Robert J. Sawyer
- Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead by Nancy Kilpatrick
Il y aura une fois
by Swann Paradis
Book(s) reviewed:
- Héritages du surréalisme by Claude Beausoleil
Crime Scenes
by Robert McGill
Book(s) reviewed:
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- The Death of Donna Whalen by Michael Winter
Casting a Reflexive Light on Theatre
by Kailin Wright
Book(s) reviewed:
- Design and Scenography by Natalie Rewa
- Theatre Histories by Alan Filewod
Mapping the Arc of Desire
by Kaya Fraser
Book(s) reviewed:
- Kaleidoscope by P. K. Page
- Sally O: Selected Poems and Manifesto by Charles Noble
- The Marram Grass: Poetry and Otherness by Anne Simpson
Updating the Trickster
by June Scudeler
Book(s) reviewed:
- Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations by Linda M. Morra and Deanna Reder
Ordinary People
by Alison Calder
Book(s) reviewed:
- Practical Jean by Trevor Cole
- Waiting for Joe by Sandra Birdsell
Poetic Off-roading and the Roads More Travelled
by Joel Deshaye
Book(s) reviewed:
- On the Material by Stephen Collis
- The Essential Kenneth Leslie by Zachariah Wells
- Time's Fools by Tom Henighan
- What We Miss by Glen Sorestad
Ectoplasmic Insanities
by Catherine Owen
Book(s) reviewed:
- Parrot Fever by Joe Rosenblatt and Michel Christensen
- The Lunatic Muse by Joe Rosenblatt
Discovery Passages
by Lorraine Weir
Book(s) reviewed:
- Discovery Passages by Garry T. Morse
Reclaiming the Lost
by J. A. Weingarten
Book(s) reviewed:
- Canadian Women in Print, 1750-1918 by Carole Gerson
Four Ways to Make Poems
by Nicholas Bradley
Book(s) reviewed:
- Bardy Google by Frank Davey
- That Other Beauty by Karen Enns
- The Essential Margaret Avison by Margaret Avison
- The Glassblowers by George Sipos
Cliches and Landscapes
by Alexis Foo
Book(s) reviewed:
- Active Pass by Jane Munro
- Moving by Elizabeth Greenee
- Unfurled: Collected Poetry from Northern BC Women by Debbie Keahy
- Walking to Mojacar by Di Brandt
A Barnyard Romance
by Robert Stacey
Book(s) reviewed:
- A Suit of Nettles by James Reaney
Transitions in Poetry
by Susie DeCoste
Book(s) reviewed:
- Arrivals and Departures by Nina Berkhout
- Here is Where We Disembark by Clea Roberts
- The Good News About Armageddon by Steve McOrmond
- Traumatology by Priscila Uppal
- Winter Sport: Poems by Priscila Uppal
Dialoguing
by Katherine McLeod
Book(s) reviewed:
- Courageous by Michael Healey
- Skydive by Kevin Kerr
- Talk by Michael Nathanson
- The Heretic by John Murphy
Divining the Elegiac
by David Leahy
Book(s) reviewed:
- Slender Human Weight by Sue Chenette
- The Crow's Vow by Susan Briscoe
- The He We Knew by Merle Nudelman
De subtils effondrements
by Mariloue Sainte-Marie
Book(s) reviewed:
- Burning Ground by Pearl Luke
- Carnet de Miserabilis le Qibis: (2001-2009) by Robert Sylvestre
- Les coriaces by Véronique Bessens
- Les marges du désert by Michel Létourneau
- Va-nu-pieds by Normand Génois
British Columbia's Iliad?
by Mark Diotte
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Inverted Pyramid by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Coup d'œil sur la littérature acadienne
by Clint Bruce
Book(s) reviewed:
- Paroles d'Acadie: Anthologie de la littérature acadienne (1958-2009) by David Longeran
Performing Community
by Joanna Mansbridge
Book(s) reviewed:
- Popular Political Theatre and Performance by Julie Salverson
- Theatre in Atlantic Canada by Linda Burnett
Taking Control
by Suzanne James
Book(s) reviewed:
- Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom by Susan Nielson
- Living Outside the Lines by Lesley Choyce
Regionalism Lives!
by George Melnyk
Book(s) reviewed:
- So Vast and Various: Interpreting Canada's Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by John Warkentin
- The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortina
Challenging Slums
by Daniel Harvey
Book(s) reviewed:
- Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World by Doug Saunders
Le beat des répliques à la puissance deux
by Stéphanie Nutting
Book(s) reviewed:
- Dry Lips devrait déménager à Kapuskasing by Jean Marc Dalpé and Tomson Highway
Telling Secrets
by Tim Blackmore
Book(s) reviewed:
- Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death and the Superhero by Richard Harrison and Lee Easton
The Saved and the Spooked
by Timothy Dugdale
Book(s) reviewed:
- Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred and the Sublime in Literature and Theory by Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo, and Jens Zimmerman
The Legacy of Oka
by Tasha Hubbard
Book(s) reviewed:
- This is an Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Blockades by Leanne Simpson and Kiera L. Ladner
L’inexorable cri de l’art
by Syvain Marois
Book(s) reviewed:
- Derrière les forêts by François Turcot
- Insoumission by Serge Mongrain
- Terre de faïence by Michel A. Thérien
Women and Religious Tradition
by Maryann Tjart Jantzen
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Hidden Thing by Dora Dueck
- The Octave of All Souls by Robert Eady
- The Practice of Perfection by Mary Frances Coady
Comme dans un film de Sergio Leone
by Krzysztof Jarosz
Book(s) reviewed:
- Clandestino by Sergio Kokis
Test review: Subtitle
by Matthew Gruman
Book(s) reviewed:
- Test book by Matthew Gruman
Those Voices Speaking Now
by Neil Querengesser
Book(s) reviewed:
- Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010 by Rudy Wiebe
A Treasure Trove for Theatre Lovers
by Gordon Gamlin
Book(s) reviewed:
- Love + Relasianships Volume 1: A Collection of Contemporary Asian-Canadian Drama by Nina Lee Aquino
- Love + Relasianships Volume 2: A Collection of Contemporary Asian-Canadian Drama by Nina Lee Aquino
Taxonomical Metaphors and the Language of Race in Canada
by Lily Cho
Book(s) reviewed:
- After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region by Wayde Compton
A Timely Save: Canada’s Pre-eminent Feminist Theatre Company at Thirty Years
by Kirsty Johnston
Book(s) reviewed:
- Nightwood Theatre: A Woman’s Work is Always Done by Shelley Scott
In Search of Sanctuary
by Gordon Bölling
Book(s) reviewed:
- Cities of Refuge by Michael Helm
- Every Lost Country by Steven Heighton
Why Study the Humanities?
by Nathalie Cooke
Book(s) reviewed:
- Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities by Daniel Coleman and Smaro Kamboureli
Not Quite Sunnybrook Farm
by Hilary Turner
Book(s) reviewed:
- Call Me Aram by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
- The Baby Project by Sarah Ellis
- The Last Wild Place by Rosa Jordan
Recovering Early Canada
by Thomas Hodd
Book(s) reviewed:
- Collected Short Stories of Isabella Valancy Crawford by Michael Peterman and Len Early
- The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1: The Travels, 1850 Version by William E. Moreau and David Thompson
Recovery and Repression
by Bart Vautour
Book(s) reviewed:
- Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist by Bert Whyte and Larry Hannant
- Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror by Daniel Francis
Revisiting Demeter and Persephone
by Maureen Moynagh
Book(s) reviewed:
- Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature by Sharon Morgan Beckford
Un homme rapaillé
by Jean-Sébastien Ménard
Book(s) reviewed:
- Gaston Miron : La vie d’un homme by Pierre Nepveu
Budapest Boy in Canada
by Richard Teleky
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Geography of Arrival by George Sipos
L’Ethos de la fin
by David Beaudin-Gagné
Book(s) reviewed:
- Comme dans un film des frères Coen by Bertrand Gervais
- M. by Hans-Jürgen Greif
Allusions and Illusions
by Kathleen McHale
Book(s) reviewed:
- Irma Voth by Miriam Toews
- The Canterbury Trail by Angie Abdou
Family Secrets
by Gisèle M. Baxter
Book(s) reviewed:
- Every Time We Say Goodbye by Jamie Zeppa
- Miracleville by Monique Polak
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
Resignation or Wonder
by Kathryn Carter
Book(s) reviewed:
- Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod
- The End of the Ice Age by Terence Young
Le méchant à l’examen
by Marie-Hélène Larochelle
Book(s) reviewed:
- Attention écrivains méchants by Simon Harel
A Young Woman Hungers
by Jan Lermitte
Book(s) reviewed:
- Hunger Journeys by Maggie de Vries
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
Only Connect
by Stella Algoo-Baksh
Book(s) reviewed:
- The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das by Merrily Weisbord
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
Personalities and Place
by Brooke Pratt
Book(s) reviewed:
- Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada by Allan Casey
- Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature by Trevor Carolan
La beauté est nue
by Kevin McNeilly
Book(s) reviewed:
- Illuminated Verses by George Elliott Clarke
The Poet's Novel (Un)framed
by Kevin McNeilly
Book(s) reviewed:
- From Cohen to Carson: The Poet's Novel in Canada by Ian Rae
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
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
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
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
