University of Alberta Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Arborophobia by Nancy Holmes
Next Time There's a Pandemic by Vivek Shraya
On Foot to Canterbury by Ken Haigh
Indigenous Women and Street Gangs: Survivance Narratives by Robert Henry
A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
You Look Good for Your Age by Rona Altrows
An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand
All the Feels: Affect and Writing in Canada / Tous les sens : affect et écriture au Canada by Marie Carrière, Ursula Mathis-Moser and Kit Dobson
Alice Munro: Paradox and Parallel by W. R. Martin
Feminist Acts: Branching Out Magazine and the Making of Canadian Feminism by Tessa Jordan
Most of What Follows is True: Places Imagined and Real by Michael Crummey
What You Take with You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home by Therese Greenwood
Fields of Light and Stone by Angeline Schellenberg
There Are Not Enough Sad Songs by Marita Dachsel
The Man Who Lived with a Giant by Johnny Neyelle, Alana Fletcher and Morris Neyelle
Apostrophes VIII: Nothing Is But You and I by E.D. Blodgett
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters by Laura K. Davis and Linda M. Morra
Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell and Christi Belcourt
Anarchists in the Academy: Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry by Dani Spinosa
Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard by Jenna Butler
Songs for Dead Children by E.D. Blodgett
Metis Pioneers: Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Listen. If by Douglas Barbour
Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature/Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienne by Benjamin Authers, Maité Snauwaert and Daniel Laforest
Rising Abruptly: Stories by Gisèle Villeneuve
The Dragon Run: Two Canadians, Ten Bhutanese, One Stray Dog by Tony Robinson-Smith
The Burgess Shale: The Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s by Margaret Atwood
Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father by Heather O'Neill
Welcome to the Anthropocene by Alice Major
The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories by Myrl Coulter
The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place by Tim Lilburn
Believing is not the same as Being Saved by Lisa Martin
Beyond "Understanding Canada": Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature by Melissa Tanti, Jeremy Haynes, Daniel Coleman and Lorraine York
Sleeping in Tall Grass by Richard Therrien
Surviving the Gulag: A German Woman's Memoir by Ilse Johensen and Heather Marshall
Little Wildheart by Micheline Maylor
Ten Canadian Writers in Context by Marie Carrière, Curtis Gillespie and Jason Purcell
Imagining the Supernatural North by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore and Stefan Donecker
Conrad Kain: Letters from a Wandering Mountain Guide, 1906-1933 by Conrad Kain and Zac Robinson
Counterblasting Canada: Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson by Gregory Betts, Paul Hjartarson and Kristine Smitka
Who Needs Books? Reading in the Digital Age by Lynn Coady
A Year of Days by Myrl Coulter
The Woman Priest: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Novel, La femme abbé by Sylvain Maréchal
The Home Place: Essays on Robert Kroetsch's Poetry by Dennis Cooley
100 Days by Juliane Okot Bitek
Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions by Jon Gordon
A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism by Tomson Highway
abecedarium by Dennis Cooley
Landscapes of War and Memory: The Two World Wars in Canadian Literature and the Arts, 1977-2007 by Sherrill Grace
Collecting Culinaria: Cookbooks and Domestic Manuals Mainly from the Linda Miron Distad Collection by Merrill Distad and Caroline Lieffers
Personal Modernisms: Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes by James Gifford
Sanctioned Ignorance: The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of Literatures in Canada by Paul Martin
Regenerations: Canadian Women’s Writing by Marie Carrière and Patricia Demers
Métis in Canada: History, Identity, Law, and Politics by Christopher Adams, Gregg Dahl and Ian Peach
A Most Beautiful Deception by Melissa Morelli Lacroix
At the Limit of Breath by Stephen Scobie
Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home by Esi Edugyan
continuations 2 by Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy
Game Plan by Karen L. Wall
Massacre Street by Paul William Zits
Wells by Jenna Butler
Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women’s History by Joan Sangster
Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning by Lawrence Hill
“Collecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun”: Canadian Publishing and the Correspondence of Sinclair Ross, 1933-1986 by Jordan Stouck and David Stouck
Rudy Wiebe by Rudy Wiebe
Apostrophes VII by E.D. Blodgett
An Ark of Koans by E.D. Blodgett
The Occupied World by Alice Major
Heart of a Stranger by Margaret Laurence and Nora Foster Stovel
Hiding the Audience: Viewing Arts & Arts Institutions on the Prairies by Frances W. Kaye
Nahanni Journals: R. M. Patterson's 1927-1929 Journals by Raymond Murray Patterson and Richard C. Davis
The Office Tower Tales by Alice Major
The Green Heart of the Tree by A.S. Woudstra
Hard Passage by Arthur Kroeger
Great Canadian Film Directors by George Melnyk
Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination by Paul Comeau
Response to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning by Christian Riegel
The Occupied World
Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada’s Ukrainians by Lisa Grekul
Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Moure?, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, and Fred Wah by Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy
Phantom Lake: North of 54 by Birk Sproxton
the bentleys by Dennis Cooley
A Minor Planet for You and Other Stories by Leslie Greentree
Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature by Justin D. Edwards
The Hydra's Tale: Imagining Disgust by Robert R. Wilson
The Politics of Cultural Mediation. Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Felix Paul Greve by Paul Hjartarson and Tracy Kulba
CKUA: Radio Worth Fighting For by Marylu Walters
The Metis in the Canadian West by Marcel Giraud and George Woodcock
The Windmill Turning: Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, and Other Expressions of Western Canadian Mennonites by Victor Carl Friesen
The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two by George Melnyk
The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat: Travels on the Athabasca,Macekenzie, Rat, Porcupine, and Yukon Rivers in 1926 by Clara Vyvyan, I.S. MacLaren and Lisa N. LaFramboise
Great Canadian War Stories by Muriel Whitaker
Great Canadian War Stories (audiotape) by Muriel Whitaker
Giant Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction by Martha Westwater
kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik / Their Example Showed Me the Way: A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures by Emma Minde, Freda Ahenakew and H. C. Wolfart
Voices From Hudson Bay: Cree Stories From York Factory by Flora Beardy and Robert Coutts
An Ark of Koans by Kevin McNeilly and Yves Beauchemin
One Step Over the Line by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus
Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists 1952-1966 by Margaret Laurence and Nora Foster Stovel
Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence by Christian Riegel
PhotoGraphic Encounters: The Edgesand Edginess of Reading Prose Pictures and Visual Fictions by W. F. (Will) Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence
Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park by I.S. MacLaren
In Bed With the Word by Daniel Coleman
The Hornbooks of Rita K by Robert Kroetsch
The Well by Sinclair Ross
Whir of Gold by Sinclair Ross
Sawbones Memorial by Sinclair Ross
Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists 1952-1967 by W. H. New, Wendy Roy and Nora Foster Stovel
Too Bad by Robert Kroetsch
Memory's Daughter by Alice Major
Empire of Dust by David C. Jones
Between Anxiety and Hope: The Poetry and Writing of Czeslaw Milosz by Edward Mozejko
The Dynamics of Hutterite Society by Karl A. Peter
Canada and the Arab World by Tareq Y. Ismael
Yukon Wildlife: A Social History by Robert G. McCandless
Theatre and Politics in Modern Quebec by Elaine F. Nardocchio
The Creating Word: Papers from an International Conference on the Learning and Teaching of English in the 1980s by Patricia Demers
The Myth of the Savage: and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason
Reminiscences of a Bungle by One of the Bunglers by R. C. McLeod
In the Days of the Red River Rebellion by John McDougall
Civilizing the West: The Galts and the Development of Western Canada by A. A. den Otter
Epic Fiction: The Art of Rudy Wiebe by W. J. Keith
G. Howard Ferguson: Ontario Tory by Peter Oliver
Unnamed Country. The Struggle for a Canadian Prairie Fiction by Dick Harrison
Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010 by Rudy Wiebe
Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities by Smaro Kamboureli and Daniel Coleman
Apostrophes VII: Sleep, You, a Tree by E.D. Blodgett
The Measure of Paris by Stephen Scobie
Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium by Myrna Kostash
Dramatic Licence: Translating Theatre from One Official Language to the Other in Canada by Louise Ladouceur and Richard Lebeau
The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols and Modern Storytelling by Eden Robinson
Not Drowning But Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts by Jeanne Perreault, Heather Zwicker, Jo-Ann Wallace and Susan Brown
Healing Histories: Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals by Laurie Meijer Drees
Travels and Tales of Miriam Ellis Green: Pioneer Journalist of the Canadian West by Patricia Demers and Miriam Green Ellis
Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress by Linda Goyette, Kathleen Steinhauer , Nellie Carlson and Maria Campbell
dear Hermes... by Michelle Smith
Civilizing the Wilderness: Culture and Nature in Pre-Confederation Canada and Rupert's Land by A. A. den Otter