Current Issue: #214 (Autumn 2012)
Canadian Literature's Issue 214 (Autumn 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Germaine Warkentin, Susan Gingell, Deanna Reder, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Fagan Bidwell, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Andrea King, Joanne Leow, and Ana María Fraile, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.
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canlit.ca Updates
May 23, 2013
- Book Review: Placing Canadian Literature in the America
- Book Review: Olson Happens
May 22, 2013
- Book Review: The Art of Losing
May 21, 2013
- Book Review: Diaspora at Home
- Book Review: Swimming with Feminists
- Book Review: Reflets fictionnels, questions interculturelles
- Book Review: Le cœur et d'éloquence
- Book Review: Voyage au Kanyada
- Book Review: Eastern Promises
- Book Review: Sommation à voir le jour
May 8, 2013
- Book Review: The Past Revisied
May 6, 2013
- Book Review: Peindre l’instant, écrire le réel
- Book Review: Panicked Laments
- Book Review: Postcards from Home
- Book Review: Women, Work, and War
- Book Review: Secret Lives of Letters
- Book Review: Restless Pages
May 2, 2013
- Book Review: Shifting Cadences
- Book Review: National Cosmopolitanism
April 26, 2013
- Book Review: Looking for Happiness
Daily Book Review
Peopling the Wound
- Jan Thornhill (Author)
Drought and Other Stories. Cormorant Books - Madeline Sonik (Author)
Drying the Bones. Nightwood Editions - Mark Macdonald (Author)
Home. Arsenal Pulp Press
Reviewed by Stuart Sillars
The opening item in Mark Macdonald’s collection, headed "Contents," is a series of short paragraphs each sketching an item suggesting the person whose identities it has shaped and whose life it records and distorts. This sparse, garage-sale suggestive-ness conveys with an immediate yet imprecise force the displaced world that the volume generates, along axes of both character and narrative. Sometimes, objects dominate lives: the central figure in "Walls" becomes obsessed with protecting […more…]