Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest by Laurence (Laurie) Ricou
  • Landscapes of the Heart: Narratives of Nature and Self by Michael Aleksiuk and Thomas Nelson

A Cosy World? (p. 121-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • High Hopes: Coming of Age at the Mid-Century by Paul Almond and Michael Ballantyne

Men’s Business (p. 123-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • American Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique by Tim Armstrong
  • Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in New Canadian Narratives by Daniel Coleman
  • The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930 by Angus McLaren

Producing Culture (p. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ghosts in the Machine: Women and Cultural Policy in Canada and Australia by Alison Beale and Annette Van Den Bosch
  • Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century by Clarence Karr

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les choses terrestres by Jean-François Beauchemin
  • Le dernier roman by Hélène Desjardins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic by Steven Bruhm

Book(s) Reviewed

  • All the Verdis of Venice by Normand Chaurette and Linda Gaboriau
  • Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Shimmer on the Horizon by Philip Teece
  • This Blessed Wilderness: Archibald McDonald's Letters from the Columbia, 1822-44 by Jean Murray Cole

Linked Stories (p. 133-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Walking in Paradise by Libby Creelman
  • The Miss Hereford Stories by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • Sputnik Diner by Rick Maddocks

Evil, and All That (p. 134-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dorothy L'Amour by Lynn Crosbie
  • A History of Forgetting by Caroline Adderson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le chien by Jean Marc Gautier
  • L'hypocrite by Michael Gauthier
  • L'insomnie by Robert Marinier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mort ou fif. a face cachée du suicide chez les garçons by Michel Dorais

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Promise of Shelter by Robyn Sarah
  • Sanctuary and Other Stories by Jennifer Duncan
  • Birds of Paradise by Helen Pereira

Wartime Memories (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy by H. A. Enzer and S. Solotaroff-Enzer
  • Bialystok to Birkenau: The Holocaust Journey of Michel Mielnicki by Michel Mielnicki and John Munro

Cultural Mediators (p. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pioneering North America: Mediators of European Literature and Culture by Klaus Martens
  • "Je vous écris, en hâte et fiévreusement." Felix Paul Greve-André Gide: Korrespondenz und Dokumentation by Jutta Ernst and Klaus Martens

Italian Migration (p. 145-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Poems—Bilingual Editions by Luigi Romeo
  • Italy's Many Diasporas by Donna R. Gabaccia
  • Ancient Memories, Modern Identities by Domenic Cusmano and Filippo Salvatore
  • Eh, Paesan! Being Italian in Toronto by Nicholas DeMaria Harney

Gabrial’s Lowry (p. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Inside the Volcano: My Life With Malcolm Lowry by Jan Gabriel

Story and Desire (p. 148-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 16 Categories of Desire by Douglas H. Glover
  • By A Frozen River by Norman Levine

Chasing Tales (p. 149-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney by Armand Garnet Ruffo
  • At Geronimo's Grave by Armand Garnet Ruffo
  • Tales of an Empty Cabin by Grey Owl

Body Count (p. 151-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bodily Charm: Living Opera by Michael Hutcheon and Linda Hutcheon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nicole by Simone Poirier-Bures
  • Inside Out: Reflections on a Life so Far by Evelyn Lau
  • Sex Carnival by Bill Brownstein

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Toronto, je t'aime by Didier Leclair
  • Valium by Christian Mistral

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye on Religion by Jean O’Grady and Alvin Lee

Peopling the Wound (p. 159-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Drought and Other Stories by Jan Thornhill
  • Drying the Bones by Madeline Sonik
  • Home by Mark Macdonald

Truth & Time (p. 161-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Long Stretch by Linden MacIntyre
  • Robbiestime by Don Dickinson

Re-Visioning Crusoe (p. 163-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Canadian Gardening (p. 164-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A History of Canadian Gardening by Carol Martin
  • Gardens of Vancouver by Collin Varner and Christine Allen

Rewriting Identity (p. 166-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar by Ashok Mathur
  • Doing the Heart Good by Neil Bissoondath
  • Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cargo of Orchids by Susan Musgrave
  • Penelope's Way by Blanche Howard
  • Afterimage by Helen Humphreys

Split Self (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood by Sonia Mycak
  • Deux Sollicitudes by Margaret Atwood and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi. by David Adams Richards
  • The Bay of Love and Sorrows by David Adams Richards
  • Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards

Risk-taking (p. 175-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sister Crazy by Emma Richler
  • Down There by the Train by Kate Sterns
  • From Bruised Fell by Jane Finlay-Young
  • The Uncharted Heart by Melissa Hardy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction: An Anthology by Robert L. Ross

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Spirit of the Web: The Age of Information from Telegraph to Internet by Wade Rowland

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume Four, 1929-1935 by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston

No Free Lunches (p. 181-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction by Sarah Sceats

Hailing Mary (p. 182-183)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Shoemperlen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The African Safari Papers by Robert Sedlack

Notions of Love (p. 184-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Barking Dog by Cordelia Strube
  • The Wife Tree by Dorothy Speak

Languaged Memory (p. 186-188)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out by Rosemary Sullivan
  • Writing A Politics of Reception: Memory, Holography and Women Writersin Canada by Dawn Thompson

Inside the House (p. 188-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sightlines by Leona Theis
  • Semi Detached by Cynthia Holz
  • Rocket Science by Julia Gaunce

Critical Allegories (p. 191-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places by Cecelia Tichi

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rapt in Plaid: Canadian Literature and Scottish Tradition by Elizabeth Waterston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Clara Callan by Richard Wright