Editorial

Book Reviews

Russian Riddles (p. 145-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff
  • Another Winter, Another Spring: Love Remebered by Louise DeKiriline Lawrence
  • Moscow Despatches: Inside Cold War Russia by John Watkins, Dean Beeby and William Kaplan

Images of Poland (p. 147-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Color of Blood by Brian Moore

Heroic Artists (p. 150-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Margaret Atwood by Barbara Hill Rigney
  • Emily Carr by Ruth Gowers
  • Memoirs of a Book Molesting Childhood and Other Essays by Adele Wiseman

War Within War (p. 153-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Enfants de Sophie by Teddy Kutscher and Patrick Coppens

McFadden’s World (p. 154-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gypsy Guitar: One Hundred Poems of Romance and Betrayal by David McFadden

Testimony Time (p. 155-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Why I am a Mennonite: Essays on Mennonite Identity by Harry Loewen

Overviews (p. 156-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • German Expressionist Prose: Theory and Practice by Augustinus P. Dierick
  • Canadian Drama and the Critics by L. W. Conolly

Grove/Greve (p. 159-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Stranger in My Time: Essays by and about Frederick Philip Grove by Paul Hjartarson

(Dis)continuity (p. 160-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Life, Love & Unions by Helen Potrebenko
  • Word-House of a Grandchild by Liliane Welch

Eye & Ear (p. 162-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Vernacular Muse by Marcia Macaulay

(Dis)Illusions (p. 165-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Some Kind of Hero by Max Layton
  • the half-finished christ by James Misfeldt
  • Seeds by Bryan Moon

Caves & Stories (p. 167-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Naked Croquet by Doug Melnyk
  • The Cost of Living by Kenneth Radu

Cultivating Race (p. 168-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Racial Attitudes in English Canadian Fiction, 1905-1980 by Terrence Craig

Crazy Cramer (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Basket of Apples and Other Stories by Shirley Faessler

Grand Tour (p. 171-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Travellers in Europe 1851-1900 by Eva-Marie Kröller

War Words (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Great War of Words: British, American And Canadian Propaganda And Fiction, 1914-1933 by Peter Buitenhuis

Forger & Parrot (p. 175-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Medieval Hour in the Author's Mind by Ernest Hekkanen
  • The Parrot Who Could by Robin Skelton

Women & Les Mots (p. 177-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing by Smaro Kamboureli and Shirley Neuman

War, Sex, Sentiment (p. 179-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unknown Soldier by George Payerle

Implied Others (p. 181-183)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Counterpoint by Marie Moser
  • The Invisible Women of Washington by Diana G. Collier

Milosz (p. 183-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Between Anxiety and Hope: The Poetry and Writing of Czeslaw Milosz by Edward Mozejko

A€ Propos de rien (p. 184-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beaux Draps by Jean-Marie Poupart

Vicereines (p. 185-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj by Marian Fowler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Amant gris by Louise Warren
  • Au beau fixe by Marthe Jalbert
  • La Terre émue by Pierre-Yves Pépin
  • Lettres urbaines by Robert Berrouët-Oriol
  • Clara by Jacqueline Déry Mochon

Chez Him (p. 189-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Being at home with Claude by René-Daniel Dubois and Linda Gaboriau

Les Guerres (p. 191-193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Trouble-Fête by Bernard J. Andrès
  • Les Trains d'exils by Réjean Bonenfant and Louis Jacob

Pays & Paysage (p. 193-196)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Steven Le Hereault by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu and Ray Chamberlain
  • Mariaagelas/Maria, daughter of Gélas by Antonine Maillet and Ben-Z. Shek
  • The March to Love by Gaston Miron and D. G. Jones

Essentially Ironic (p. 196-200)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Perspectives on Mordecai Richler by Michael E. Darling
  • The Bumper Book by John Metcalf

Entendre vibrer (p. 200-202)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dans l'attente d'une aube by Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon
  • Choisir la poésie by Écrits des Forges
  • Verbe Silence by Guy Gervais
  • comme un lexique des abîmes by Gilbert Langevin
  • Depuis l'amour by Jean Royer
  • Du fond redouté (1982-1985) by Robert Giroux

Territory (p. 202-204)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
  • The Imaginary Lover by Alicia Ostriker
  • Undressing the Dark by Barbara Carey

Penser la mort (p. 204-206)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nekuia ou le chant des morts by Michel Clément
  • Un livre de Kafka a la main suivi de la Blessure by Denise Desautels
  • Travail au noir by France Lachaine

Dirty/Beautiful (p. 206-208)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Killing the Swan by Mark Anthony Jarman
  • Broken Ghosts by Roger Moore
  • The Natural History of Water by David Donnell
  • Troubles in Paradise by James Whittall

L’agonie (p. 208-210)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Death-Watch by Jacques Brault and David Lobdell
  • Wide Load by Fred Bonnie

Elephant & Delirium (p. 210-212)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Some Talk Magic by Penny Kemp
  • A Hinge of Spring by Patience Wheatley
  • Everything Happens at Once by Yvonne Trainer
  • Cloud Gate by Claudia Lapp
  • What We Bring Home by Judith Krause
  • Candy from Strangers by Diana Hartog

Cape Breton (p. 212-213)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tales Until Dawn: the World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-Teller by Joe Neil MacNeil and John Shaw
  • Impressions of Cape Breton by Brian Tennyson

Radio Days (p. 213-215)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • All the Bright Company: Radio Drama Produced by Andrew Allan by Howard Fink and John Jackson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Restoration: the referendum years by Keith Henderson
  • Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins by Colin Renfrew

Prairie Locus (p. 216-217)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Saskatchewan Writing by E. F. Dyck

Feminist (p. 217-218)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Opening Eye by Nancy Bauer
  • In Other Words: Writing as a Feminist by Gail Chester and Sigrid Nielsen

Poésie-manifeste (p. 218-220)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Plaie rouillée by Eddy Garnier
  • Chambres by Louise Dupré
  • Voyante by Louise Larose

La Territoire (p. 220-221)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Roman du territoire by Bernard Proulx
  • C'était l'hiver by Jean Provencher

Roman du coeur (p. 221-223)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le coeur découvert, roman d'amours by Michel Tremblay

Child Magic (p. 223-225)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everday Magic: Child Language in Canadian Literature by Laurence (Laurie) Ricou

Postmodernism (p. 225-227)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Life After Postmodernism: Essays on Value and Culture by John Fekete
  • The Postmodern University: Essays on the Deconstruction of the Humanities by Stanley Fogel
  • The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics by Arthur Kroker and David Cook

Tradition (p. 227-230)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Between Europe and America: The Canadian Tradition in Fiction by T. D. MacLulich

Hébert Sonore (p. 230-233)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le premier jardin by Anne Hébert

Carr’s Anger (p. 233-234)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Life of Emily Carr by Paula Blanchard

L’Hiver du pays (p. 235-236)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Ecrit-Vent by Benoit Fradette

Versions of Vulgar (p. 236-238)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • How to make love to a Negro by Dany Laferrière and David Homel
  • Married Love: A Vulgar Entertainment by Kent Thompson