255 Canadian Literature
(2023)

Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Archaic Torso of Gumby by Geoffrey Morrison and Matthew Tomkinson
  • Boy with a Problem by Chris Benjamin

Flow and Flight (p. 163-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flight from Grace: A Cultural History of Humans and Birds by Richard Pope
  • Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Cemetery for Bees by Alina Dumitrescu and Katia Grubisic
  • Songs for Angel by Marie-Claire Blais and Katia Grubisic

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Water Proof by Aaron Bushkowsky
  • Last Hummingbird West of Chile by Nicholas Ruddock

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Virtues of Disillusionment by Steven Heighton
  • Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism by Daphné B and Alex Manley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 1968 in Canada: A Year and Its Legacies by Michael K. Hawes, Andrew C. Holman and Christopher Kirkey

Women’s Time (p. 172-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • We, Jane by Aimee Wall
  • We Want What We Want by Alix Ohlin
  • Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fuse: A Memoir by Hollay Ghadery
  • On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada by Linda M. Morra and Sarah Henzi

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Reception of Northrop Frye by Robert D. Denham

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Black Bears in the Carrot Field by Linda K. Thompson
  • The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak by Grace Lau
  • Creeland by Dallas Hunt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Damages: Selected Stories 1982-2012 by Keath Fraser
  • Ring by André Alexis

Particular Selves (p. 182-183)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Metastasis by Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews
  • Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete by Eleonore Schönmaier
  • whereabouts by Edward Carson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Duct-Taped Roses by Billeh Nickerson
  • Junebat by John Elizabeth Stintzi
  • The Untranslatable I by Roxanna Bennett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Strangers by Rob Taylor
  • Myself a Paperclip by Triny Finlay
  • sick by Jody Chan

Speed and Syntax (p. 188-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Undoing Hours by Selina Boan
  • Scofflaw by Gary Thomas Morse

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stars Need Counting: Essays on Suicide by Concetta Principe
  • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism by Lauren Fournier

An “Epic” Fail? (p. 192-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Quest for a “National” Nationalism: E.J. Pratt’s Epic Ambition, “Race” Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity by George Elliott Clarke