Upcoming Reviews
New book reviews are posted here as soon as they become available. Please note that there may be editing changes between their appearance in this section and their appearance in the print journal.
New Voices Considered
by Caitlin Charman
Book(s) Reviewed:
- A Song for My Daughter by Patricia Jean Smith (Oolichan Books)
- Sailor Girl by Sheree-Lee Olson (Porcupine's Quill)
Seven Days in Detail
by Julie Cairnie
Book(s) Reviewed:
- A Week of This by Nathan Whitlock (ECW Press)
Exhibitions of Diversity
by Andrew Lesk
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Myself Through Others by David Watmough (Dundurn Press)
- Queer CanLit by Scott Rayter, Donald W. McLeod, and Maureen FitzGerald (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library)
Farley Mowat's Periplum
by Bert Almon
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Bay of Spirits by Farley Mowat (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
- Otherwise by Farley Mowat (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
Love, Loss, and—the Arts?
by Brenna Clarke Gray
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Smuggling Donkeys by David Helwig (Porcupine's Quill)
- That Tune Clutches My Heart by Paul Headrick (Gaspereau Press)
- Niceman by David Carpenter (Porcupine's Quill)
The Full Circle
by Madelaine Jacobs
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Restoring the Balance by Eric Guimond, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, and Madeleine Dion Stout (University of Manitoba Press)
Devotions
by Antje M. Rauwerda
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Poetry as Liturgy: An Anthology by Canadian Poets by Margo Swiss (Test)
- Torch River by Elizabeth Philips (Brick Books)
- Invoking the Moon: Selected Poems (1975-1989) by Mona Fertig (Black Moss Press)
A Something of Crows?
by Crystal Hurdle
Book(s) Reviewed:
- The Rush to Here by George Murray (Nightwood Editions)
- Human Resources by Rachel Zolf (Coach House Books)
- Flutter by Alice Burdick (Mansfield)
- The Lost Country of Sight by Neil Aitken (Anhinga Press)
Seeing Through Our Eyes
by Graham Forst
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Words with Power by Northrop Frye (University of Toronto Press)
- The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'incontournable cécité d'Homère) by Alberto Manguel (Goose Lane Editions)
- The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975 by Eva Kushner and Jean O'Grady (University of Toronto Press)
Farting In Church
by Mark Harris
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Rien n’est plus précieux que la liberté et l’indépendence by Pierre Farlardeau (VLB éditeur)
Women Who Roughed It
by Janice Fiamengo
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Marie-Anne by Maggie Siggins (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
- A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada by Barbara Williams (University of Toronto Press)
Wolf, Star, and Ash
by Joel Deshaye
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Wolf Tree by Alison Calder (Coteau Books)
- Combustion by Lorri Neilsen Glenn (Brick Books)
- Contrary Infatuations by Dymphny Dronyk (Frontenac)
- Last Scattering Surfaces by Gil McElroy (Talon Books)
- Radius of Light by Joshua Auerbach (DC Books)
Grasping Ondaatje
by Sofie De Smyter
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Michael Ondaatje by Joan Elizabeth von Memerty (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co KG)
- Michael Ondaatje by Lee Spinks (Manchester University Press)
Fine Feminist Workings
by Susan Rudy
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Nicole Brossard by Louise H. Forsyth (Guernica Editions)
A Diverse Nation
by Mark Diotte
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Imagining British Columbia by Daniel Francis (Anvil Press)
- Writing the West Coast by Christine Lowther and Anita Sinner (Ronsdale Press)
Reality is Nice, Too
by Hilary Turner
Book(s) Reviewed:
- The Day I Became a Canadian by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet and Hilary Turner (Tundra Books)
- Hurricane! by Celia Godkin (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Probing Montgomery's Magic
by Christa Zeller Thomas
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Magic Island by Waterston Elizabeth (Oxford University Press)
New Environmentalist Criticism
by Lisa Szabo
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Culture, Creativity and Environment by Fiona Beckett and Terry Gifford (Rodopi)
War's Children
by Reece Steinberg
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Off to War by Deborah Ellis (Groundwood)
- Tell No One Who You Are by Walter Buchignani (Tundra Books)
Lilies and Realism
by Alexis Foo
Book(s) Reviewed:
- A Long Continual Argument by John Newlove (Chaudiere Books)
- The Essential Don Coles by Robyn Sarah (Porcupine's Quill)
- Coal and Roses by P.K. Page (Porcupine's Quill)
One Good Step
by Alison Calder
Book(s) Reviewed:
- One Step Over the Line by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus (University of Alberta Press)
This City is Made for Walking
by Maia Joseph
Book(s) Reviewed:
- The Walkable City by Mary Soderstrom (Véhicule Press)
A Poetics of Listening
by Paul Watkins
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst (Gaspereau Press)
Factored Dramaturgies
by Alan Filewod
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Schoolhouse by Leanna Brodie (Talon Books)
- Rootless but Green Are the Boulevard Trees by Uma Parameswaran (TSAR Publications)
- The Berlin Blues by Drew Hayden Taylor (Talon Books)
- Bone Cage by Catherine Banks (Playwrights Canada Press)
Poésie en trombes, mode majeur
by Élise Lepage
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Trombes by Pierre Ouellet (Éditions du Noroît)
- Les Verbes Majeurs by Pierre Nepveu (Éditions du Noroît)
A Couple Pairs of Shorts
by Owen Percy
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Pardon our Monsters by Andrew Hood (Véhicule Press)
- Once by Rebecca Rosenblum (Biblioasis)
- Reckoning by A.S. Penne (Turnstone Press)
- The Butcher of Penetang by Betsy Trumpener (Caitlin Press)
Le dur désir de durer
by Pierre-Paul Ferland
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Roman 41 by Monique Le Maner (Éditions Triptyque)
- C'était écrit by Eileen Lohka (Interligne)
Gone Albertan
by Neil Querengesser
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Wild Words by Donna Coates (Athabasca University Press)
Poésie, nature, lumière et tranquillité
by Jean-Sébastien Ménard
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Mémoire d'ombres by Jéremie Leduc-Leblanc (Éditions Triptyque)
- La lune en mille gouttes by Bertrand Nayet (Éditions David)
- Cette lumière qui flotte by Hélène Leclerc (Éditions David)
The Art of Work
by Crystal Hurdle
Book(s) Reviewed:
- A Well-Mannered Storm by Kate Braid (Caitlin Press)
- Kahlo by Linda Frank (Buschek Books)
- Paper Trail by Arleen Paré (NeWest Press)
- The Office Tower Tales by Alice Major (University of Alberta Press)
Native Textuality
by Beverley Haun
Book(s) Reviewed:
- The Common Pot by Lisa Brooks (University of Minnesota Press)
- Muting White Noise by James H. Cox (University of Oklahoma Press)
- Taking Back Our Spirits by Jo-Ann Episkenew (University of Minnesota Press)
Pleasure: Plot or Plow?
by Jodi Lundgren
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Bambina by Francesca Piredda (Porcupine's Quill)
- Gravity by Leanne Lieberman (Orca Book Publishers)
Poetry's Underdogs
by Vanessa Lent
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Mary Melfi by Wiliam Anselmi (Guernica Editions)
- Alden Nowlan by Gregory M. Cook (Guernica Writers Series)
- Joe Rosenblatt by Linda Rogers (Guernica Writers Series)
Kids' Animal Books Moving
by Lynn J.R. Wytenbroek
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Shimmerdogs by Dianne Linden (Thistledown Press)
- Dog Tracks by Ruby Slipperjack (Fifth House Publishers)
- The Nine Lives of Travis Keating by Jill MacLean (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Living with the Land
by Saleema Nawaz
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Revenant by Tristan Hughes (Douglas & McIntyre)
- The Order of Good Cheer by Bill Gaston (House of Anansi Press)
Walk the Line
by Samuel Pane
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Arc of the Medicine Line by Tony Rees (University of Nebraska Press)
- Beneath My Feet by Phil Jenkins (Emblem Books)
Quand la petite histoire insuffle la vie
by Lucie Lequin
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Doucement le bonheur by Marguerite Andersen (Prise de Parole)
- L'archipel du docteur Thomas by Françoise Enguehard (Éditions Prise de Parole)
Enlightening Essays
by Neil Querengesser
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Mary di Michele by Joseph Pivato (Guernica Editions)
- The Ivory Thought by Gerald Lynch, Shoshannah Ganz, and Josephine Kealey (University of Ottawa Press)
Out of the North, Into the Desert
by Gordon Bölling
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden (Penguin Books)
- The Great Karoo by Fred Stenson (Doubleday Canada Limited)
Saisir
by Simon Auclair
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Toucher l'eau et le ciel by Francine Chiocoine (Éditions David)
- Sur la table vitrée by Francine Chiocoine and Robert Melançon (Éditions David)
Gone But Not Forgotten
by Robert Thacker
Book(s) Reviewed:
- When She's Gone by Steve Lundin (Great Plains Publications)
Through German Eyes
by Jenny Bingold
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Translating Canada by Luise von Flotow and Reingard M. Nischik (University of Ottawa Press)
Daze and Nights
by Janice Morris
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly)
Education, with Ethics
by Suzanne James
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Cities by John Lorinc (Groundwood)
- Slavery Today by Kevin Bales (Groundwood)
- Lunch with Lenin and Other Stories by Deborah Ellis (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Negotiation and Dissonance in AC Lit
by Ranbir K. Banwait
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography by Eleanor Ty and Christl Verduyn (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
- A Place Within by M. G. Vassanji (Doubleday Canada Limited)
City of Words (and Pictures)
by Sarah Banting
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Vancouver by George Stanley (New Star Books)
- A Verse Map of Vancouver by George McWhirter (Anvil Press)
One Event, Plural Views
by Emily Johansen
Book(s) Reviewed:
- The Strike by Anand Mahadevan (TSAR Publications)
- Red Dust, Red Sky by Paul S. Sunga (Coteau Books)
- My White Planet by Mark Anthony Jarman (Thomas Allen & Sons Ltd.)
In the Family
by Alex Ramon
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Renovating Heaven by Andreas Schroeder (Oolichan Books)
- Apologize, Apologize! by Elizabeth Kelly (Knopf Canada)
- Long After Fathers by Roberta Rees (Coteau Books)
Noli me scribere
by Adeline Caute
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Homa Sweet Home by Patrick Lafontaine (Éditions du Noroît)
- Chronos à sa table de travail by Margaret Michèle Cook (Interligne)
Burdened Paternities
by Neta Gordon
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Entitlement by Jonathan Bennett (ECW Press)
- Waiting for Elvis by David Elias (Coteau Books)
Je me souvien: Memory and Mourning in Montreal
by Jessica Langston
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Distantly Related to Freud by Ann Charney (Cormorant Books)
- The Violets of Usambara by Mary Soderstrom (Cormorant Books)
- The White Space Between by Ami Sands Brodoff (Second Story Press)
Génération désillusion
by Virginie Doucet
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Un Monde de papier by Francois Désalliers (Éditions Triptyque)
- Vu d'ici by Mathieu Arsenault (Éditions Triptyque)
- L'Impudeur by Alain Roy (Éditions du Boréal)
Mixing Periods & Genres
by Leonard Bond
Book(s) Reviewed:
- The Cardinal Divide by Stephen Legault (NeWest Press)
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson (House of Anansi Press)
Women in the Market
by Jennifer Blair
Book(s) Reviewed:
- A Silent Revolution? by Peter Baskerville (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Charting Indigenous Pasts and Futures
by Keavy Martin
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Lines Drawn upon the Water by Karl S. Hele (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
- Where the Pavement Ends by Marie Wadden (Douglas & McIntyre)
Torment and Dislocation
by Julie Cairnie
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Dance Hall Road by Marion Douglas (Insomniac Press)
Integrating Violence
by Richard Cassidy
Book(s) Reviewed:
- The Well and Other Stories by Nick Faragher (Thistledown Press)
- The Chinese Knot and Other Stories by Lien Chao (TSAR Publications)
- We Are Not in Pakistan by Shauna Singh Baldwin (Goose Lane Editions)
Une femme de son temps
by Mélanie E. Collado
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Louise Dupré by Anne-Marie Jézéquel (L'Harmattan)
De l'espace et du temps
by Emmanuel Bouchard
Book(s) Reviewed:
- La Grande Sortie by Pierre Raphaël Pelletier (Interligne)
- Sur le parvis des nuages by Marcil Cossette (Éditions David)
- L'étincelle suffit à la constellation by Guy Cloutier, René Laubiès, Frédèric Benrath, and Julius Baltazar (Éditions du Noroît)
Rebellious Causes
by Jan Lermitte
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Vimy by Vern Thiessen (Playwrights Canada Press)
- Carmela's Table by Vittorio Rossi (Talon Books)
- The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte (Playwrights Canada Press)
Chevaliers de la mémoire
by Maxime Prévost
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Aux chevaliers du nœud coulant by Rémi Tremblay and Rémi Tremblay (Presses de l'Université Laval)
Three Directions: One Terrain
by Karl Jirgens
Book(s) Reviewed:
- Jailbreaks by Zachariah Wells (Biblioasis)
- Looking for Lucy by Wanda Campbell (Leaf Press)
- South of North by Richard Outram, Anne-Marie Corkett, Rosemary Kilbourn, and Thoreau MacDonald (Porcupine's Quill)
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