Editorial


Book Reviews

Reading India (p. 129-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia by Lawrence A. Babb and Susan S. Wadley
  • Word, Sound, Image: The Life of the Tamil Text by Saskia Kersenboom

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Self Beyond Self: Ethel Wilson and Indian Philosophical Though by Anjali Bhelande

Ways of Going North (p. 133-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure by James West Davidson and John Rugge
  • Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life—An Interpretation by Peter Larisey

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp 1932-1939 by Robert D. Denham

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La jeune fille venue du froid by Sylvie Desrosiers
  • Les ténèbres piégées by Bertrand Gauthier
  • Véloville by Raymond Plante

Peripheral Visions (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Copying People: Photographing British Columbia First Nations 1860-1940 by Daniel Francis
  • Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present by Liz Heron and Val Williams

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Out of This World: The Natural History of Milton Acorn by Chris Gudgeon
  • To Hear the Faint Bells by Milton Acorn and Gilda Mekler
  • The Road to Charlottetown by Milton Acorn and Cedric Smith

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Aurélien, Clara, Mademoiselle, and the English Lieutenant by Anne Hébert
  • Shaping the Novel: Textual Interplay in the Fiction of Malraux, He?bert, and Modiano by Constantina Mitchell and Paul Raymond Côté

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Random Gospel by David Helwig
  • Too Spare, Too Fierce by Patrick Lane
  • Science Lessons by W. H. New

Framing the Past (p. 149-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States by Matthew Frye Jacobson
  • The Aftermath: A Survivor's Odyssey Through War-torn Europe by Henry Lilienheim

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
  • The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America by Peter Firstbrook

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Glace Bay Miners' Museum (A Stage Play Based on the Novel by Sheldon Currie) by Wendy Lill
  • Mad Boy Chronicle by Michael O'Brien
  • Club Chernobyl by Dianne Warren

A Divinity of Self (p. 155-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Catching the Wind in a Net: The Religious Vision of Robertson Davies by David Little

Economy and Art (p. 157-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Master's Wife, Facsimile of 1939 by Sir Andrew Macphail and Ian Ross Robertson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Homer in Flight by Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Black Jesus and Other Stories by Cyril Dabydeen

Ethnic at Large (p. 159-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ethnic Literature and Culture in the USA, Canada, and Australia by Igor Maver
  • Precarious Present/Promising Future?: Ethnicity and Identities in Canadian Literature by Danielle Schaub, Janice Kulyk Keefer and Richard E. Sherwin

Call for Change (p. 162-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks by Patricia Monture-Angus

Stylish Violence (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Looks Perfect by Kim Moritsugu
  • Jade Slash Laverna by Anne Montagnes

Geography Lessons (p. 165-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing by W. H. New

And Other Stories (p. 167-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Monkey King and Other Stories by Griffin Ondaatje
  • Lion's Granddaughter and Other Stories by Yasmin Ladha
  • English Lessons and Other Stories by Shauna Singh Baldwin

Récits de voyages (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Grand voyage du pays des hurons by Gabriel Sagard
  • Un Voyageur français en Nouvelle-France au XVIIe siècle by Dominique Deffain

Compelling Spells (p. 171-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Quality of Light by Richard Wagamese
  • Love Medicine and One Song by Gregory Scofield