Book Reviews

Tremors Downunder (p. 192-193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand, Second Edition by Keith Sinclair
  • An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English by Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien and Mark Williams

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pigtails 'n Breadfruit. Rituals of Slave Food: A Barbadian Memoir by Austin Clarke
  • At the Full and Change of the Moon by Dionne Brand

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Banjo Lessons by David Carpenter
  • Courting Saskatchewan by David Carpenter
  • Due West: 30 Great Stories from Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba by Wayne Tefs, Geoffrey Ursell and Aritha van Herk
  • The Middle of Nowhere by Dennis Gruending

Vitriolic Quixote (p. 198-199)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The George Grant Reader by William Christian and Sheila Grant
  • English-Speaking Justice by George Grant

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Strange Heaven by Lynn Coady
  • Flesh and Blood by Michael Crummey
  • World Enough by Lesley Choyce

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  • Lignes de force by Marc Vaillancourt
  • Pourquoi ça gondole by Giller Cyr

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Selected Poems by Adam Czerniawski and Iain Higgins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Here is Queer: Nationalisms, Sexualities and the Literatures of Canada by Peter Dickinson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Growing Home by Susan Davis Price
  • Building My Zen Garden by Kieran Egan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Oatmeal Ark: Across Canada by Water by Rory MacLean
  • Ultimate Voyage: A Book of Five Mariners by William Gilkerson
  • Water Studies [:] New Voices in maritime Fiction by Ian Colford

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A History of Domestic Space: Privacy and the Canadian Home by Peter Ward
  • Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill by Charlotte Gray

Writing the Body (p. 213-217)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Body Language in Literature by Barbara Korte
  • Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism by Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth Probyn
  • Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Body Building by Leslie Heywood
  • The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe. by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio

River Echoes (p. 217-218)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Steamboat Connection: Montreal to Upper Canada 1816-1843 by Frank Mackey
  • River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage by Trevor Herriot

Realistic Vision (p. 218-220)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kurelek Country: The Art of William Kurelek by Avrom Issacs and Ramsay Cook

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  • Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson
  • The Gender of History: Men, Women,and Historical Practice by Bonnie G. Smith

Charlie’s Choice (p. 222-223)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Baltimore's Mansion by Wayne Johnston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics by Raminder Kaur and John Hutnyk
  • On Toleration by Michael Walzer
  • Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics by David Campbell and Michael J. Shapiro

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy by Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock

Building Canada (p. 228-229)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • William Thomas Architect 1799-1860 by Glenn McArthur and Annie Szamosi
  • The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963 by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe
  • Homeplace: The Making of the Canadian Dwelling overThree Centuries by Peter Ennals and Deryck W. Holdsworth

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 'Terror to Evil-Doers': Prisonsand Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario by Peter Oliver
  • The Convict Lover: A True Story by Merilyn Simonds

Awake to the Sacred (p. 231-233)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Faith and Fiction: A Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Money Callaghan by Barbara Pell
  • Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime by Vijay Mishra
  • Divine Inspirations: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry by Robert Atwan, George Dardess and Peggy Rosenthal

Reading Green (p. 233-234)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women's Poetry by Diana M. A. Relke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Art of Glenn Gould: Reflections of a Musical Genius by John P. L. Roberts

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Settlement of Memory by Gordon Rodgers
  • One Last Good Look by Michael Winter
  • Things You Don't Forget by Robert Currie
  • The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs by Warren Cariou

Taming the West (p. 238-240)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Trade by Fred Stenson
  • The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 by Andrew C. Isenberg

Collecting Regions (p. 240-241)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Genius of Place: Writing About British Columbia by David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson
  • The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two by George Melnyk
  • Regional Images and Regional Realities by Lothar Hönnighausen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cleaving by Florence Treadwell
  • The Weight of Flames by Bernadette Rule
  • Paper Moon by M. E. Csamer
  • Bonding with Gravity by Coleen Flood
  • The Parable Boat by Hannah Main-van der Kamp

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'enfant cigarier by Marie-Paule Villeneuve
  • Le nomade by Raymond Plante

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat: Travels on the Athabasca,Macekenzie, Rat, Porcupine, and Yukon Rivers in 1926 by Clara Vyvyan, I.S. MacLaren and Lisa N. LaFramboise
  • North With Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames. by John Wilson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Before the Flood by Alan R. Wilson

Japanese Memories (p. 250-252)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectic of Memory by Lisa Yoneyama
  • Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan by Reiko Tachiban
  • O-Bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered by Catherine Lang
  • The City of Yes by Peter Oliva

Polarities (p. 253-254)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Inexpressible Island by David Young
  • Escaped Domestics by Robin McGrath

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye by Barbie Zelizer