Suzanne James


Works by Suzanne James

Book Reviews

Book Reviews by Suzanne James

A Lingering Impact
By Suzanne James
Published in web format on Canadian Literature‘s website. (Pending print publication.)
  • Dusk in the Frog Pond and Other Stories by Rummana Chowdhury (Author)
  • Householders by Kate Cayley (Author)
Less Than Cutting Edge
By Suzanne James
Published in Canadian Literature 250 (2022): 148-149.
  • This Cleaving and This Burning by J. A. Wainwright
A Very Timely Anthology
By Suzanne James
Published in web format on Canadian Literature‘s website. (Pending print publication.): 191-192.
  • Changing the Face of Canadian Literature by Dane Swan (Editor)
History Lessons
By Suzanne James
Published in Reading, Writing, Listening Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 241 (2020): 174-175.
  • City on Strike: A Novel by Harriet Zaidman
  • A Boy from Acadie: Roméo LeBlanc’s Journey to Rideau Hall by Beryl Young
Traumatized Teens
By Suzanne James
Published in Reading, Writing, Listening Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 241 (2020): 132-133.
  • Last Words by Leanne Baugh
  • Larkin on the Shore by Jean Mills
Loss, Retreat, Recovery
By Suzanne James
Published in Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 138-139.
  • How Far We Go and How Fast by Nora Decter
  • Lost Boy by Shelley Hrdlitschka
Our Places
By Suzanne James
Published in Lost and Found Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 236 (2018): 170-171.
  • Our Place: Changing the Nature of Alberta by Kevin Van Tighem
  • The Bosun Chair by Jennifer Bowering Delisle
Calling Out Intolerance
By Suzanne James
Published in Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 235 (Winter 2017): 173-174.
  • The Way Back Home by Allan Stratton
  • Subject to Change by Karen Nesbitt
Queer Canadian Spaces
By Suzanne James
Published in Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 270-272.
  • Queer Mobilizations: Social Movement Activism and Canadian Public Policy by Manon Tremblay (Editor)
  • Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84 by Liz Millward
Out of the Silence
By Suzanne James
Published in Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 259-260.
  • Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin and Alexandra Shimo
  • We Share Our Matters: Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River by Rick Monture
LGBTQ, Without the Q
By Suzanne James
Published in Queer Frontiers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 224 (Spring 2015): 126-27.
  • Adrian and the Tree of Secrets by Hubert, Marie Caillou (Illustrator) and David Homel (Translator)
  • When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
Sense and Sensitivity
By Suzanne James
Published in Recursive Time. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 124-25.
  • The Green Man by Michael Bedard
  • Picture me Gone by Meg Rosoff
Beyond Domesticity
By Suzanne James
Published in Canadian Literature 214 (Autumn 2012): 176-77.
  • Stones for my Father by Trilby Kent (Author)
  • Out of the Box by Michell Mulder (Author)
  • She Said/She Saw by Norah McClintock (Author)
Taking Control
By Suzanne James
Published in New Work on Early Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 213 (Summer 2012): 162-163.
  • Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom by Susan Nielson
  • Living Outside the Lines by Lesley Choyce
Education, with Ethics
By Suzanne James
Published in 50th Anniversary Interventions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 204 (Spring 2010): 182-184.
  • Cities by John Lorinc
  • Slavery Today by Kevin Bales and Becky Cornell
  • Lunch with Lenin and Other Stories by Deborah Ellis
Into Africa?
By Suzanne James
Published in Home, Memory, Self. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 203 (Winter 2009): 167-168.
  • The Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa by Larry Krotz (Author)
  • Where Bones Dance: An English Girlhood, An African War by Nina Newington (Author)
No Escape from the Past
By Suzanne James
Published in Strategic Nationalisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): 130-131.
  • Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literture by Clare Bradford
Into the Wild, Again
By Suzanne James
Published in Canada and Its Discontents. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 198 (Autumn 2008): 172-173.
  • The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor (Author)
  • Borderline by Bonnie Rozanski (Author)
  • Gemini Summers by Iain Lawrence (Author)
(Re)presenting Cultures
By Suzanne James
Published in Visual/Textual Intersections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 194 (Autumn 2007): 188-189.
  • Ancient Thunder by Leo Yerxa
  • Napi Goes to the Mountain by Antonio Ramá­rez, Elisa Amado (Translator) and Domi (Illustrator)
  • Tarde de invierno/Winter Afternoon by Jorge Lujàn, Elisa Amado (Translator) and Mandana Sadat (Illustrator)
Imprints of Other People's Histories
By Suzanne James
Published in Canadian Literature 164 (Spring 2000): 138-140.
  • The Two-Headed Calf by Sandra Birdsell
  • The Instructor by Ann Ireland
Beyond Domesticity
By Suzanne James
  • Out of the Box by Michell Mulder
  • She Said/She Saw by Norah McClintock
  • Stones for my Father by Trilby Kent