Poems

Late Show (p. 10-10)
Hunted (p. 26-26)
bushed (p. 44-45)
Advent (p. 84-84)

Book Reviews

Darkness and Light (p. 102-103)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ashland by Gil Adamson
  • Outside Magic by Noah Leznoff
  • The Witness Ghost by Tim Bowling

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Utopies en Canada (1545-1845) by Bernard J. Andrès and Nancy Desjardins
  • La Nouvelle-France. Les Français en Amérique du Nord XVIe-XVIIIe siècle by Jacques Mathieu

Crystal Methods (p. 105-106)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dummy Spit by Mark Laba
  • Hammertown by Peter Culley
  • Crystallography by Christian Bök

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America by Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy

Wary of Angels (p. 108-110)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Imprints and Casualties: Poets on Women and Language, Reinventing Memory by Anne Burke
  • The Elders' Place: Iniqnirit Qalgiat by Natasha Thorpe and Margo Button
  • Jacob's Dream by Elizabeth Brewster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women by Helen M. Buss
  • Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson

Ontario Hauntings (p. 112-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Walking on Water by Dave Carley
  • Beaver: A Play by Claudia Day
  • An Acre of Time: The Play by Jason Sherman

Telling Our Stories (p. 114-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground by J. Edward Chamberlin
  • Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic by Rudy Wiebe
  • Colours in the Storm by Jim Betts

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flippin' In and Then and Now by Anne Chislett
  • Naked at School: Three Plays for Teens by Chris Craddock
  • Rave: Young Adult Drama by Edward Roy, Beth Goobie and Carmen Aguirre

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy by Terry Copp

The Gospel of Grant (p. 119-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Collected Works of George Grant: Volume 2 (1951–1959) by Arthur Davis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Staging Alternative Albertas: Experimental Drama in Edmonton by Patricia Demers and Rosalind Kerr

Religious Quest (p. 122-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts by Robert D. Denham

Romans de jeunesse (p. 123-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Je suis Thomas by Sylvie Desrosiers
  • Bonne année, Ani Croche by Bertrand Gauthier
  • Une lettre pour Nakicha by Marthe Pelletier

Seeds in the Wind (p. 126-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada. by James Doyle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • "A Half Caste" and Other Writings by Onoto Wantanna, Linda Trinh Moser and Elizabeth Rooney
  • Edith & Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances by Dominika Ferens

Oublis à réparer (p. 130-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Aventure: Récit d’un éditeur by Jacques Fortin
  • Victor Barbeau: Un réseau d’influences littéraires by Chantale Gingras
  • Les Nations québécoises dans L'Action nationale: De la décolonisation à la mondialisation by Catherine Bouchard
  • Les ɉtudes québécoises à l'étranger Problèmes et perspectives by Daniel Chartier

Lost in Transit (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Elle by Douglas H. Glover

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada and the Two World Wars by J. L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton

Northeast of King (p. 134-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey

The Reel Deal (p. 135-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Garbo Laughs by Elizabeth Hay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Challenging Canada: Dialogism and Narrative Techniques in Canadian Novels by Gabriele Helms

Feminist Paradoxes (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada by Jennifer Henderson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island by John R. Hinde

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Politics of Cultural Mediation. Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Felix Paul Greve by Paul Hjartarson and Tracy Kulba

Shrink-wrapped (p. 142-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Speaking Cure by David Toby Homel

Ghosts of the Past (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities by Coral Ann Howells

The Sincerity Test (p. 145-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After Ted & Sylvia by Crystal Hurdle
  • Taking the Names Down from the Hill by Philip Kevin Paul
  • The Gates of Even by John Thompson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Adoration by Nancy Huston
  • Thunder and Light by Marie-Claire Blais and Nigel Spencer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose by Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag

Kalman’s History (p. 149-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Concise History of Canadian Architecture by Harold Kalman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Counterrealism and Indo-Anglican Fiction by Chelva Kanaganayakam

Romans oniriques (p. 151-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Somnolences by Patricia Lamontagne
  • Le mangeur de pierres by Gilles Tibo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • De Québec à Montréal Journal de la seconde session, 1846 suivi de Sept jours aux Etats-Unis, 1850 (Introduction et notes de Georges Aubin) by Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
  • Le Mythe de l'Amérique dans l'imaginaire "canadien" by Maurice Lemire

Telling a Story (p. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia by Donald Luxton
  • The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design by John Punter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Secrets in the Fire by Henning Mankell
  • Terra Incognita by Anne Metikosh
  • Escapes! by Laura Scandiffio

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Backyards of Heaven by Stephanie McKenzie and John Ennis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The View from Tamischeira by Richard Cumyn
  • A Johnny Novel by Robert Richard
  • A Promise of Salt by Lorie Miseck

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario by James E. Moran
  • Where the River Narrows by Aimée Laberge

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Grandchild of Empire: About Irony, Mainly in the Commonwealth by W. H. New

The Shape of Events (p. 164-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Shape of a Girl by Joan MacLeod
  • Blood Relations and Other Plays by Sharon Pollock

Book(s) Reviewed

  • River of the Brokenhearted by David Adams Richards

Roots and Gatenby (p. 167-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Special Places: The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region by Betty I. Roots, Donald A. Chant and Conrad E. Heidenreich
  • Toronto: A Literary Guide by Greg Gatenby

Foreign Lands (p. 169-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest by Mireille Rosello
  • Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference by Rukmini Bhaya Nair
  • Shifting Continents/Colliding Cultures: Diaspora Writing of the Indian Subcontinent by Ralph J. Crane and Radhika Mohanram

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nos Corps habitables by Jean Royer
  • Le Visage des mots by Jean Royer
  • Nous sommes en alarme by Louise Cotnoir

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tendances actuelles en histoire littéraire canadienne by Denis Saint-Jacques

Western Ways (p. 175-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lightning by Fred Stenson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Furious Observations of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway by Drew Hayden Taylor
  • Will's Garden by Lee Maracle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La tête ailleurs by Hélène Vachon
  • La désertion by Pierre Yergeau

Redefining Alberta (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta by Aritha van Herk

Book(s) Reviewed

  • And in the Morning by John Wilson
  • Brothers Far from Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates, Uxbridge, Ontario, 1916 by Jean Little

Feeling Numb (p. 182-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Banana Boys by Terry Woo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rethinking Women's Collaborative Writing by Lorraine York

Of Note (p. 184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trying to Say Goodbye by Lois Simmie

Of Note (p. 184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Understanding by Jane Barker Wright

Of Note (p. 184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Making Babies: Infants in Canadian Fiction by Sandra Sabatini

Of Note (p. 184-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flashing Yellow by Mary Burger