Book Reviews

Their Empire (p. 112-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Letters from Windermere, 1912-1914 by Elizabeth Phillips and R. Cole Harris

Licensed Buffoon (p. 114-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Robertson Davies: The Well-Tempered Critic: One Man's View of Theatre and Letters in Canada by Judith Skelton Grant

The Glassco Maze (p. 116-117)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • John Glassco: An Essay and Bibliography by Fraser Sutherland

Art as Hammer (p. 118-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • John Grierson and the NFB by The John Grierson Project

Fighting Magazines (p. 119-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Little Magazine in Canada 1925-80 by Ken Norris

Separate Space (p. 120-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Censored Letters by Betsy Struthers
  • Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics by Frank Davey

Not Cricket (p. 123-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tourists by Richard B. Wright

Didactic Poet (p. 124-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Feeling the Worlds by Dorothy Livesay

Teaching Dreams (p. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Drama. Vol. I by Richard Plant
  • Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 by Richard Perkyns
  • Modern Canadian Plays by Jerry Wasserman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ravished by the Spirit: Religious Revivals, Baptists, and Henry Alline by G. A. Rawlyk
  • Loyalist Mosaic: A Multi-Ethnic Heritage by Joan Magee

Oiseau Tombe (p. 129-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La détresse et l'enchantement by Gabrielle Roy

Mythic Mounties (p. 130-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Visions of Order: The Canadian Mounties in Symbol and Myth by Keith Walden

Triviality & Magic (p. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • When the Grass was Taller: Autobiography and the Experience of Childhood by Richard N. Coe

Cold War (p. 134-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Berlin Solstice by Sylvia Fraser

Empty Lives (p. 136-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Among Friends by L. R. Wright
  • Goldenrod by Peter Gault

Le Vertige (p. 137-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anna's World by Marie-Claire Blais and Sheila Fischman

Macaronics (p. 139-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les deux traditions: Le conte populaire chez les Franco-Terreneuviens by Gerald Thomas

First Person (p. 140-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • It Never Pays to Laugh Too Much by Gertrude Story
  • A Local Hanging and other stories by Kent Thompson

Into the Woods (p. 142-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Moon Country by Denys Chabot and David Lobdell
  • Paula Lake by George McWhirter

First Fictions (p. 144-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Too Many Blackbirds by Ken Ledbetter
  • A First Class Funeral by Sonia Birch-Jones
  • The Salvation of Yasch Siemens by Armin Wiebe
  • Figures on a Wharf by Wayne Tefs

Good Practices (p. 146-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Malahat Review: A Special Issue on John Metcalf by The Malahat Review

Mulberry Bush (p. 149-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Meeting of Streams: South Asian Canadian Literature by M. G. Vassanji
  • The Toronto South Asian Review by M. G. Vassanji
  • Darkness by Bharati Mukherjee

Their Own Tongue (p. 152-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Touch to My Tongue by Daphne Marlatt
  • Open Is Broken by Betsy Warland
  • Banff/Breaking by Charles Noble
  • Animus by Penny Kemp

Sigh Within (p. 155-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Double Visions by Jean Hillabold and Thelma Poirier
  • Cavalier in a Roundhead School by Errol MacDonald
  • A Nun's Diary by Anne McLean

Enclosures (p. 157-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Collected Poems of Miriam Mandel by Sheila Watson
  • Smoke Without Exit by Brian Brett
  • The Hewed Out Light by Russell Thornton

La Significance (p. 158-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Oeil de Palomar by Robert G. Girardin
  • L'Incomparable by J. R. Leveille
  • A la façon d'un charpentier by Paul Savoie
  • Comme un simple voyageur by Michel Vallieres

In Italics (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Blood Ties and Other Stories by Robin Mathews

Yang/Yin Dancing (p. 162-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Painted Ladies by H. R. Percy

Family Stories (p. 163-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Don’'t You Know Anybody Else? by Ted Allan
  • A Boy Called Nam by Leo Heaps
  • Uncle Jacob's Ghost Story by Donn Kushner

Signposts (p. 165-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Cutting Season by Margaret Clarke

Storied Effects (p. 167-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Master of Strappado by Négovan Rajic and David Lobdell
  • Fatal Recurrences: New Fiction in English from Montréal by Peter O'Brien and Hugh Hood
  • Northern Comfort by Martin Avery

Dramatic Irony (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Scenic Art by Hugh Hood

Personal Lives (p. 170-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dancing Nightly in the Tavern by Mark Anthony Jarman
  • A Long Way to Oregon by Anne Marriott
  • The Bequest and Other Stories by Jerry Wexler

Transformations (p. 172-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Difficult Faith by Richard Lemm
  • Season of Blood: A Suite of Poems by Henry Beissel
  • The Death of André Breton by Ray Chamberlain and Jean Yves Collette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hold the Rain in Your Hands: Poems New and Selected by Glen Sorestad

Re/Deconstruction (p. 176-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • bpNichol: What History Teaches by Stephen Scobie
  • PANOPTICON by Steve McCaffery

Untitled (p. 178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Land of Earth and Sky: Landscape Painting of Western Canada by Ronald Rees
  • The Best of the Group of Seven by Joan Murray

Last Pages

Last Page (p. 195-196)