Book Reviews

Regulated Anger (p. 107-109)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unless by Carol Shields
  • Jane Austen by Carol Shields

Internment Memoirs (p. 109-110)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Curious Cage: Life in a Japanese Internment Camp, 1943-1945 by Peggy Abkhazi (nee Pemberton)
  • Wild Daisies in the Sand: Life in a Canadian Internment Camp by Tom Sando

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Whistling Past the Graveyard by Peter Sellers
  • The Thief-Taker: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner by T. F. Banks
  • A Carra King by John Brady
  • Dead White Males by Ann Diamond

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Gryphon: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Is Rediscovered by Nick Bantock
  • The Artful Dodger: Images and Reflections by Nick Bantock

Film Monsters (p. 113-115)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film by Wyndham Wise
  • The Artist as Monster by William Beard

Curious Knowledge (p. 115-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and their Collectors by Michael A. Salmon, Peter Marren and Basil Harley
  • Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry by Barbara M. Benedict
  • The Oxford Companion to the Body by Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Women in Pacific Northwest History. Rev. ed by Karen J. Blair
  • Fairy Ring by Martine Desjardins

Like Life Itself (p. 119-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Forest Family by Joan Bodger
  • A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North by Peter Sis
  • The Crack in the Teacup: The Life of an Old Woman Steeped in Stories by Joan Bodger
  • Out of the Everywhere: New Tales for Canada by Jan Andrews

Engendering China (p. 123-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
  • Tales of a Chinese Grandmother by Frances Carpenter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology by James McKusick
  • Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond by Lawrence Buell

What Is the Answer? (p. 126-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Question by Austin Clarke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters: : Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonds in Gay Culture by Stephen Maddison
  • Something for the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay Culture by John M. Clum

A Game of Ghosts (p. 129-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Deep by Mary Swan
  • The Sojourn by Alan Cumyn

Collateral Damage (p. 131-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Our Glory and Our Grief: Torontonians and the Great War by Ian Hugh Maclean Miller
  • Whistling in the Dark: Memory and Culture in Wartime London by Jean R. Freedman

Acts of War (p. 134-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mary's Wedding by Stephen Massicotte
  • Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr
  • Soldier's Heart by David French

Sparrow Nation (p. 136-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Shaping of American Ethnography: The Wilkes Exploring Expedition by Barry Alan Joyce
  • When the Eagle Screamed: : The Romantic Horizon in American Expansionism, 1800-1860 by William Goetzmann
  • Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian by Paul Russell Cutright and Michael J. Brodhead

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Consider Her Ways by Frederick Philip Grove
  • Dystopian Fiction East and West: Universe of Terror and Trial by Erika Gottlieb

Why He Writes (p. 141-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace by Jack Granatstein

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada by John Hagan
  • All American Boys: Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War by Frank Kusch
  • A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 by Francis M. Carroll

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Dream of Sulphur by Aurian Haller
  • The Asparagus Feast by S. P. Zitner
  • With Averted Vision by Hannah Main-van der Kamp
  • Blue by George Elliott Clarke

Witness Borne (p. 147-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Where She Was Standing: New and Selected Stories by Maggie Helwig
  • The Path of Totality by Audrey Thomas

N.A.D., Trez Beans (p. 150-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The First World War by Michael Howard
  • Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930 by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • How Should I Read These?: Native Women Writers in Canada by Helen Hoy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Enemies Within: Italians and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad by Franca Lacovetta, Robert Perin and Angelo Principe
  • In Fear of the Barbed Wire Fence: Canada's First Internment Operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920 by Lubomyr Luciuk

Home and Away (p. 154-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
  • Critical Injuries by Joan Barfoot

Lessons of War (p. 156-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Boer War by Denis Judd and Keith Surridge
  • Blood on the Hills: The Canadian Army in the Korean War by David J. Bercuson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Gendered Object by Pat Kirkham
  • Powerplay: Toys as Popular Culture by Dan Fleming

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China by Michael David Kwan

Auteure de force (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Women Filmmakers: Refocusing by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis and Valerie Raoul

Livesay’s Archive (p. 162-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Archives for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems by Dorothy Livesay and Dean J. Irvine

Concept and Culture (p. 163-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Third Hand: Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism by Charles Green
  • The Maclean's Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture by Tom Henighan
  • The Beaverbrook Art Gallery Collection: Selected Works by Ian G. Lumsden, Curtis Joseph Collins and Laurie Glenn

Book(s) Reviewed

  • No Great Mischief by Alistair Macleod

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II by Eric L. Muller
  • Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975 by Eric L. Muller

War Stories (p. 169-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dubious Glory: The Two World Wars and the Canadian Novel by Dagmar Novak
  • Great Canadian War Stories by Muriel Whitaker
  • Great Canadian War Stories (audiotape) by Muriel Whitaker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation by Michael Rothberg
  • Echoes of Combat: Trauma, Memory, and the Vietnam War by Fred Turner
  • The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony by Leigh Gilmore

Reality Theatre (p. 173-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Strategies: The Business of Being a Playwright in Canada by Caroline Russell-King and Rose Scollard
  • Questionable Activities: The Best by Judith Rudakoff

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture 1945-1960 by Caroline Chung Simpson
  • Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies by Johnnella E. Butler

Life Recordings (p. 176-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hanna's Diary, 1938-1941 by Hanna Spencer
  • She Left Nothing in Particular: The Autobiographical Legacy Nineteenth-Century Women's Diaries by Amy Wink

Tremblay conteur (p. 178-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hotel Bristol New York, N.Y. by Michel Tremblay
  • Bonbons assortis by Michel Tremblay
  • L'homme qui entendait siffler une bouilloire by Michel Tremblay

The Truth (p. 180-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Truth About Death and Dying by Rui Umezawa

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
  • Solitaire: The Intimate Lives of Single Women by Marian Botsford Fraser

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond by Yeh Wen-hsin
  • Deadly Dreams: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China by J. Y. Wong
  • The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue