Editorial

Book Reviews

Real & Ideal (p. 114-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Purer Taste. The Writing and Reading of Fiction in English in Nineteenth-Century Canada by Carole Gerson

Mastery (p. 116-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Return of the Reader: Reader-Response Critcism by Elizabeth Freund
  • Double Exposure by Gaetan Brulotte and David Lobden
  • The Company Store by Sheldon Currie

Russia & Canada (p. 118-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nothing Sacred by George F. Walker

Recoveries (p. 120-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Wanton Troopers by Alden Nowlan
  • Cartoon Woods by Richard Taylor

Abundance (p. 122-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sky High: Stories from Saskatchewan by Geoffrey Ursell
  • Plainspeaking: Interviews with Saskatchewan Writers by Doris Hillis

True Stories (p. 124-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mystery in the Frozen Lands by Martyn Godfrey
  • Little by Little: A Writer's Education by Jean Little
  • The Way Things Work: From Levels to Lasers, Cars to Computers — A Visual Guide to the World of Machines by David Macaulay

Margins (p. 126-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Section Lines: A Manitoba Anthology by Mark Duncan
  • A Sudden Radiance: Saskatchewan Poetry by Lorna Crozier and Gary Hyland

Personae (p. 127-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations by Otto Friedrich

Portraiture (p. 129-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • William Hurst: A Theatre Portrait by Keith Garebian

Fulford (p. 130-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Best Seat in the House: Memoirs of a Lucky Man by Robert Fulford

Little Bottles (p. 131-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Through the Nan Da Gate by Ken Mitchell

Hesitation (p. 134-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Violent Lavender Beast by Ernest Hekkanen

Theory & Practice (p. 135-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings by Shari Benstock
  • Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Myths & Paradigms (p. 138-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chinese Chamber Music by Fred Candelaria
  • Selections: 1959-1989 by Lloyd Abbey
  • The Word for Sand by Heather Spears

Class & Cupcakes (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hope Springs Eternal by Edward Phillips

Pluralism (p. 141-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hundred Proof Earth by Milton Acorn and James Deahl

Rural Poetry (p. 142-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Efficiency of Killers by Ian McCullough
  • To Die Ascending by Peter Christensen
  • Walking at Brighton by Dave Margoshes

Music (p. 144-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Musical Canada: Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kellmann by John Beckwith and Frederick A. Hall
  • The Canadian Musical Heritage 3: Songs I to English Texts by Frederick A. Hall
  • The Canadian Musical Heritage 7: Songs II to French Texts by Lucien Poirier

Sequences (p. 145-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Evoba by Steve McCaffery
  • Pear Tree Pomes by Roy Kiyooka

Outports (p. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Selected Stories of Norman Duncan by John Coldwell Adams

Adaptations (p. 148-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Distant Kin: Dutch-Canadian Stories & Poems by Hendrika Ruger
  • Dutch Medley by Pleuke Boyce
  • Corpses, Brats and Cricket Music by George Faludy, Robin Skelton and Herbert Siebner

Accuracy & Profit (p. 152-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Letters of Thomas Chandler Haliburton by Richard A. Davies

Lives (p. 153-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. VII: 1836-1850 by Francess G. Halpenny

Truth & Lie (p. 155-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Western Kingdom: Part Two of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon
  • Union Day: Part Three of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon
  • Harvest: Part Four of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fou de Cornélia by Norman Descheneaux
  • Entre toutes les femmes by Jean Éthier-Blais

Fabulations (p. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unfortunate Incidents by Joan Givner
  • Living on Water by Matt Cohen

Decisions (p. 159-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Travelling to Find a Remedy by Claire Harris
  • Hammerstroke by Don Domanski
  • The Possibilities of Chinese Trout by Greg Simison

Sciences (p. 161-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Inventing Canada: Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation by Suzanne Zeller

Enclosures (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rattle in the Dash by Peter Anderson
  • Endangered Species by Margaret Hollingsworth
  • Skin and Liars by Dennis Foon

Dramatic Ironies (p. 164-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Living the Part: The Turbulent Times of John Drainie by Bronwyn Drainie
  • Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama Since 1952 by Mary Jane Miller
  • The East End Plays by George F. Walker

Satire & Romance (p. 166-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies

Pointilism (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rites of Alienation by Douglas Fetherling
  • The Crowded Darkness by Douglas Fetherling

Problem Tory (p. 169-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stephen Leacock: Humour and Humanity by Gerald Lynch

The Human Whole (p. 172-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Families by David Watmough

No-Hed-Trois (p. 173-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Liberté by Jacques Bouchard
  • Liturgy of Light by Stavros Tsimicalis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Au jour le jour by André Duhaime
  • Malamour by Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon
  • Sédiments de l'amnésie by Guy Marchamps

Country Novel (p. 180-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Prospero's Daughter by Constance Beresford-Howe

Last Pages

Last Page (p. 206-208)