Editorial

Book Reviews

Verse in the Bush (p. 108-110)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jean Baptiste: A Poetic Olio, in II Cantos by Tracy Ware and Levi Adams
  • Poetry by John Strachan by John Strachan and Wanda Campbell

Partners in Crime (p. 110-113)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Living as Spirits (p. 113-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chiwid by Sage Birchwater
  • Big Bear (Mistahimusqua): A Biography by J. R. Miller
  • Gatherings Vol. VI: The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples by Don Fiddler and Linda Jaine

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano by E.D. Blodgett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War by Joanna Bourke
  • The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers in the Great War by Martha Hanna

In a Minor Key (p. 119-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Footnotes to the Book of Job by Elizabeth Brewster

Visions and Voices (p. 120-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Eye Wuz Here: Stories By Women Writers Under 30 by Shannon Cooley

Wilderness Dwellers (p. 122-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Diary of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski
  • Clayoquot: The Sound of My Heart by Betty Shiver Krawczyk

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Contentieux de l'Acadie by Jacques Ferron
  • L'Autre Ferron by Ginette Michaud

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dancing at the Crossroads by Joan Finnigan
  • The Dreamer Awakes by Alice Kane

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future, History as Prophecy in Colonial Java by Nancy K. Florida
  • Telling Lives, Telling History. Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia by Susan Rodgers

The Narrative Cure (p. 129-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Butterfly Lovers by Charles Foran
  • Bella Combe Journal by Bill Gaston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What's Right: The New Conservatism and What It Means for Canada by David Frum

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Wild Is Always There: Canada Through the Eyes of Foreign Writer by Greg Gatenby
  • The Very Richness of That Past: :Canada Through the Eyes of Foreign Writers, Volume II by Greg Gatenby

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reclaiming Sodom by Jonathan Goldberg

Melancholy Memories (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing Ethnicity: Cross-Cultural Consciousness in Canadian and Québécois Literature by Winfried Siemerling
  • Idols of Otherness: The Rhetoric and Reality of Multiculturalism by Evelyn J. Hinz

Disaplacements (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literature by Smaro Kamboureli

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shlepping the Exile by Michael Wex
  • Notebooks: Selections from the A.M. Klein Papers by A. M. Klein, Usher Caplan and Zailig Pollock

Talking Writing (p. 145-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • More Writers & Company by Eleanor Wachtel
  • A Likely Story: the writing life by Robert Kroetsch
  • Interviews to Literature by Jean Royer

Dismembered Culture (p. 147-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Haida Art by George F. MacDonald

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario by Lynne Marks
  • Roland Graeme, Knight by Agnes Maule Machar and Carole Gerson

Ivory Thoughts (p. 151-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite: The Birth of Class and Nationalism Among Canadian Inuit by Marybelle Mitchell
  • Ancient People of the Arctic by Robert McGhee

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Long Distance Calls by Dave Margoshes
  • Telling My Love Lies by Keath Fraser
  • A Measure of Time by Karl Jirgens

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rooming-House by F. G. Paci
  • Vinnie and Me by Fiorella De Luca Calce
  • A Rage of Love by Alda Merini and Pasquale Verdicchio
  • L'Esilio della Poesia: Poeti italo-canadesi by Marilia Bonincontro

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65 by Allan Pritchard
  • White Tie and Decorations: Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson in Newfoundland, 1934-1936 by Peter Neary

Trapped Tales (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Traplines by Eden Robinson

Villages, nouvelles (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Villages imaginaires: Edouard Montpetit, Jacques Verrón et Jacques Poulin by Pamela V. Sing
  • The Quebec Anthology, 1830-1991 by Wayne Grady and Matt Cohen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Histoire d'oeufs by Sharon L. Sparling and Michel Saint-Germain
  • La division de l'intérieur by Mireille Calle-Gruber

Elusive Moodie (p. 165-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Work of Words: The Writing of Susanna Strickland Moodie by John Thurston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Englishman's Bay by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: An Exploration by J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel
  • Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 by Paul Thomas Murphy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Diamond Grill by Fred Wah

Book(s) Reviewed

  • This Woman in Particular: Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr by Stephanie Kirkwood Walker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nothing But Brush Strokes: Selected Prose by Phyllis Webb

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Life-Writing: A Glossary of Terms in Biography, Autobiography, and Related Form by Donald J. Winslow
  • Writing Selves: Contemporary Feminist Autography by Jeanne Perreault
  • Daughters of Self-Creation: The Contemporary Chicana Novel by Annie O. Eysturoy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News by James Winter
  • Constructing Danger: The Mis/representation of Crime in the News by Chris McCormick
  • Deadlines and Diversity: Journalism Ethics in a Changing World by Valerie Alia, Barry Hoffmaster and Brian Brennan