Editorial


Book Reviews

Discomforting Gifts (p. 162-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Evening Knowledge by Eric Trethewey
  • Anonymity Suite by David McFadden

Loving Freedom (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Number Hall by Abraham Boyarsky
  • You'll Catch Your Death by Hugh Hood

Systems of Value (p. 165-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64 by Denys Delâge and Jane Brierley
  • People from Our Side by Peter Pitseolak and Dorothy Harley Eber

Family Snaps (p. 167-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marine Life by Linda Svendsen

Frictions (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Frictions II: Stories by Women by Rhea Tregebov
  • Out of the Interior: The Lost Country by Harold Rhenisch

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Feminist Novelists of the Belle Epoque by Jennifer R. Waelti-Walters
  • Baroness Elsa by Paul Hjartarson and Douglas O. Spettigue

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through their Literature by Gordon Brotherston
  • The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting by Janet Catherine Berlo
  • Kwakiutl String Figures by Julia P. Averkieva and Mark A. Sherman

Transformations (p. 177-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Forests of the Medieval World by Don Coles
  • Short Talks by Anne Carson

Social Histories (p. 179-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Family History: Selected Readings by Bettina Bradbury
  • History of the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to 1867, Vol. 1 by Margaret Conrad, Alvin Finkel and Cornelius Jaenen
  • History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present, Vol. 2 by Alvin Finkel, Margaret Conrad and Veronica Strong-Boag

Mad Tea-Parties (p. 181-183)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Ghost of Bellow's Man by Sasenarine Persaud
  • Raw Material by M. A. C. Farrant

Laugh, Cry; Grow (p. 183-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Someday by Drew Hayden Taylor
  • New Canadian Drama 6 by Rita Much

Pain & Character (p. 184-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sweet Poison by Margaret Gibson
  • Be Sure to Close Your Eyes by Hugh Hood

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History by Veronica Strong-Boag and Anita Clair Fellman
  • A History of Women in the West III. Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes by Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge

Compte-rendus (p. 188-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Formation de l'Imaginaire Littéraire au Québec, 1764-1867 by Maurice Lemire
  • Le Romantisme au Canada (sous la direction de Maurice Lemire) by Maurice Lemire

Murder & Mayhem (p. 190-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan
  • The Last Sigh by Jacqueline Dumas

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Life Skills by Marlis Wesseler
  • Centre/Center by Mary Burns

Caged Presences (p. 193-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Real Presences by George Steiner
  • Performance Poems by James Reaney
  • I-VI by John Cage

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery. Volume III: 1921-1929 by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterson
  • Fresh Lettuces & New Faces by Elfreida Read

Postcards from Home (p. 197-198)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Coming to Canada by Carol Shields
  • Islands: A Treasury of Contemporary Travel Writing by Editors of Islands Magazine