Book Reviews

Windows on the Past (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Gambler's Daughter by Shirlee Smith Matheson
  • Draugr by Arthur G. Slade
  • Under Emily's Sky by Ann Alma

Culture Surfing (p. 175-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Last Word: An Insomniac Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Poetry by Michael Holmes
  • Be Labour Reading by Clint Burnham
  • The Concrete Air by Nelson Ball

Placing the Text (p. 178-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Margin Speaks: A Study of Margaret Laurence and Robert Kroetsch from a Post-Colonial Point of View by Gunilla Florby
  • Novels and the Nation: Essays in Canadian Literature by Frank Birbalsingh

Desire and Will (p. 180-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trouble and Desire by Robin McGrath
  • The Night Season by Paul Bowdring

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Land to Light on by Dionne Brand

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Aurora Montrealis by Monique Proulx
  • A Sociocritique of Translation: Theatre and Alterity in Quebec, 1968-1988 by Annie Brisset
  • Affairs of Art by Lise Bissonnette

A Gift of Prophecy (p. 187-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

George Grant (p. 189-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • George Grant: Selected Letters by William Christian
  • George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity: Art, Philosophy, Politics, Religion and Education by Arthur Davis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser
  • Sobering Tales: Narratives of Alcoholism and Recovery by Edmund B. O'Reilly

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Social Science of Stories by Julie Cruikshank

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan
  • In the Garden of Charity by Basil King
  • Stories Subversive: Through the Fieldwith Gloves Off. Short Fiction by Nellie L. McClung by Marilyn I. Davis
  • The Haliburton Bi-centenary Chaplet by Richard C. Davis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Earth's Mind: Essays in Native Literature by Roger Dunsmore
  • Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Defying New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression by Eckhard Breitinger
  • The Emperor's New Clothes: Literature, Literacy, and the Ideology of Style by Kathryn T. Flannery

Speaking Bodies (p. 201-203)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethic by Arthur W. Frank
  • Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History by Cathy Caruth

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poor Superman by Brad Fraser
  • Sled by Judith Thompson
  • Fair Liberty's Call by Sharon Pollock

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ostend by Francois Gravel
  • Last Seen by Matt Cohen

Women in the North (p. 207-208)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Winging It in the North by Lyn Hancock
  • Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak by Victoria Jason

Bodies at Home (p. 209-209)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Body Speaking Words by Loree Harrell
  • Home Fires by Jean Rysstad

Transforming Words (p. 210-211)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America by Carl G. Herndl and Stuart C. Brown
  • Singing Bone by Katharine Bitney

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Ice Master: A Novel of the Arctic by James Houston
  • Trapped in Ice by Eric Walters
  • The Man From the Creeks by Robert Kroetsch

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Impala by Carole David and Daniel Sloate
  • Maude by Suzanne Jacob and Luise Von Flotow
  • Stained Glass by Concetta Principe
  • Badass on a Softail by T. F. Rigelhof

Hard & Soft Boiled (p. 217-218)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Salvage King Ya! by Mark Anthony Jarman
  • This Dark Embrace by Paul Stuewe

Understanding Crusz (p. 218-220)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz by Chelva Kanaganayakam
  • Insurgent Rain: Selected Poems 1974-1996 by Rienzi Crusz
  • Another Way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry from Canada and the United States by Cyril Dabydeen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde by Ana Louise Keating
  • Critical Perspectives on Native American Fiction by Richard F. Fleck

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beyond the Home Front: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars by Yvonne M. Klein
  • Great Dames by Janice Dickin and Elspeth Cameron
  • Thirty-Two Short Views of Mazo de la Roche by Daniel L. Bratton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk by Ingeborg Marshall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mahoning by A. F. Moritz
  • Ariadne's Thread (Poems and Drawings) by Soraya Erian
  • Spells for Clear Vision by Neile Graham
  • I Mention the Garden for Clarity by Vivian Marple
  • Marine Snow by Karen MacCormack

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fin de Siècle Culture of Decadence by Susan J. Navarette
  • Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris by Vanessa R. Schwartz

Icelandic Voices (p. 231-233)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Atli's Tale by Mike Olito
  • The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: The Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature by Daisy L. Neijmann

Analyse et perte (p. 233-235)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hosanna et les duchesses. Étiologie de l'homosexualité masculine de Freud à Tremblay by Ginette Pelland
  • Lucky Lady by Jean Marc Dalpé

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory by Norman Ravvin
  • We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman by Elizabeth Greene

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Noise by Russell Smith
  • Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland by Sam Solecki

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill
  • Inventing the Loyalists by Norman Knowles

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Souffle d'eau by France Tremblay
  • Contre-taille : Poèmes choisis de vingt-cinq auteurs canadiens-anglais by Pierre Desruisseaux

The Ice-White Eye (p. 245-247)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les tribulations du livre québécois en France (1959-1985) by Josée Vincent
  • Lectures du postmodernisme dans le roman québécois by Lucie-Marie Magnan and Christopher Morin

Lives of Girls (p. 249-250)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bread, Wine and Angels by Anna Zurzolo
  • Fox's Nose by Sally Ireland