Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970 by Michael Dawson
  • First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia. by Alan Twigg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets by Rishma Dunlop and Priscila Uppal
  • Desilicious: Sexy. Subversive. South Asian by The Masala Trois Collective

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Oh, Oh! . . . And Other Recent Cartoons by Aislin by Aislin
  • Further Fabulous Canadians! Hysterically Historical Rhymes by Gordon Snell and Aislin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr by Susan Crean

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ces étrangers du dedans. Une histoire de l'écriture migrante au Québec (1937-1997) by Renate Hildebrand and Clément Moisan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'é‰cho de nos voix: Conférences by Gaston Tremblay
  • André Paiement (1950-1978): Avant tout un homme de son temps by Micheline Fournier-Thibault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La lumière, l'€™arbre, le trait by Louise Warren
  • Le grand livre des entorses by Carle Coppens

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century by Dan Yashinsky
  • Our Story: Aboriginal Voices On Canada’s Past by Tantoo Cardinal, Lee Maracle and Tomson Highway

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Intimate Strangers: The Letters of Margaret Laurence & Gabrielle Roy by Paul Socken

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 100 Canadian Heroines by Merna Forster
  • Raincoast Chronicles 20 by Catherine Carstairs and Stephen Hume

Rue Britannia (p. 93-94)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada and the End of Empire by Phillip Buckner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Seduction by Catherine Gildiner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke by Steven Hayward
  • An Ordinary Star by Carole Giangrande

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books by Thomas Wharton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Feed My Dear Dogs by Emma Richler
  • A Perfect Night To Go To China by David Gilmour

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Raison et contradiction. Le mythe au secours de la pensée by Gérard Bouchard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Standing Stones: The Best Stories of John Metcalf by John Metcalf

All This Sleuthing (p. 102-104)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Apikoros Sleuth by Robert Majzels

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flame of Separation by Des Kennedy
  • The Migration of Butterflies by Carol Malyon
  • Honour Thy Mother by T.C. Badcock

Three from the Peg (p. 105-106)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Short Journey by Car by Liam Durcan
  • Cherry by Chandra Mayor
  • Cherry Bites by Alison Preston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson by F.T. Flahiff

Gendered Power (p. 108-109)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Revising Romance by Melanie Dugan
  • Doctor Bloom'€™s Story by Don Coles

Candid and Curious (p. 110-111)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouré, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, and Fred Wah by Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy

Unhomely Terror (p. 111-112)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Bed of Red Flowers by Nelofer Pazira

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adultery by Richard Wright
  • Believe Me by Patricia Pearson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Group of One by Rachna Gilmore
  • Rainsongs of Kotli by Tariq Malik

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Un long chemin. Proses 1953-1996 by Gaston Miron

Crossing Boundaries (p. 116-117)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems 1977-2002 by Cyril Dabydeen
  • Play a Song Somebody: New and Selected Stories by Cyril Dabydeen

Radical Poetics (p. 117-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003) by Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver: Three Generations Amid Tradition, Modernity and Multiculturalism by Kamala Elizabeth Nayar

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Perfect Pledge by Rabindranath Maharaj
  • The Unyielding Clamour of the Night by Neil Bissoondath

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mothering the Race: Women’s Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930 by Allison Berg
  • Quilt Stories by Cecilia Macheski
  • Weaving the Word: The Metaphorics of Weaving and Female Textual Production by Kathryn Sullivan Kruger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Monsieur d'Eon by Mark Brownell
  • The Shooting Stage by Michael Lewis MacLennan
  • Articles of Faith: The Battle of St. Alban’s by Mark Leiren-Young

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lovelie d'Haïti by Sylvain Meunier
  • Passages by Emile Ollivier
  • Repérages by Emile Ollivier

Modern + Drama = ? (p. 127-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Modern Drama: Defining the Field by Ric Knowles, Joanne Tompkins and W.B. Worthen

Symphonie des mots (p. 128-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 40 singes-rubis by Marie-Hélène Montpetit
  • Le cycle des migrations by Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska
  • Lumières des puys by Germaine Monard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown
  • The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression, and Emancipation by Bernard Schissel and Terry Wotherspoon

Arctic Exploration (p. 131-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant by Peter Steele

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Winter et autres récits by Yves Vaillancourt
  • La vie de mémoire by Pierre Ouellet
  • En solo dans l'€™appareil d'ɉtat by François Tétreau

Meetings (p. 135-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Almost Meeting and Other Stories by Henry Kreisel
  • Lola By Night by Norman Ravvin

Closing the Circle (p. 136-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Swinging Bridge by Ramabai Espinet

Dixie-Defying Drama (p. 138-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Past Perfect by Michel Tremblay
  • Mambo Italiano by Steve Galluccio
  • Dave Carley: Three Plays by Dave Carley

Magic and Loss (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Demon Lover by David Arnason
  • Black Coffee Night by Emily Schultz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982-2004 by Margaret Atwood

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire and Brent Beardsley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La vie d'ɉva Sénécal by Françoise Hamel-Beaudoin
  • Mémoires parallèles. Choix de poèmes by Denise Desautels and Paul Chamberland
  • Le rire de l'eau by Nadine Ltaif

Métamorphoses (p. 146-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • En un tour de main (portraits et paysages) by Margaret Michèle Cook
  • Tomber du jour by Claudine Bertrand
  • Pattes d'€™oie by Marcelle Roy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vous devez être heureuse by Katerine Caron
  • L'angle mort by Jean-François Chassay
  • Le cercle parfait by Pascale Quiviger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chroniques tziganes by Daniel Soha

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'or des fous by Lise Blouin
  • Ce qu'€™il en reste by Julie Hivon
  • La dérive de l'ɉponge by Monique Le Maner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Jours de l'éclipse by Paul Bélanger
  • Au seuil de L'inespérable by Jean Royer
  • L'usage des sens by Roland Bourneuf
  • Un pont au-dessus du vide by Claude Paradis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World by Robert D. Denham

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Désâmé by Patrice Desbiens
  • Grosse guitare rouge. Livre et disque audio-numérique, musique de René Lussier. by Patrice Desbiens
  • Libertés provisoires by Robert Dickson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • were the bees by Andy Weaver
  • Bastardi Puri by Walid Bitar
  • Dead Men of the Fifties by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Book(s) Reviewed

  • At the Edge of the Frog Pond by Nelson Ball
  • Go Leaving Strange by Patrick Lane
  • Haunted Hills & Hanging Valleys: Selected Poems 1969-2004 by Peter Trower

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Back to the War by Frank Davey
  • Stormy Weather by Stan Dragland
  • Hot Poppies by Leon Rooke

Rage for Order (p. 161-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye's Notebooks on Romance by Northrop Frye and Michael Dolzani

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer by bp Nichol
  • Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer by Stuart Ross

Versions of Lyric (p. 163-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bizarre Winery Tragedy by Lyle Neff
  • The Sutler by Michael Kenyon
  • Standing Wave by Robert S. Allen

Ombres miniatures (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Averses et réglisses noires by Carole David
  • La marathonienne by Denise Desautels
  • Une écharde sous ton onglee by Louise Dupré
  • Des ombres en formes d'oiseaux by Isabelle Gaudet-Labine

Survivre (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Léonie Imbeault by France Vézina
  • Ultimes battements d'€™eau by Martyne Rondeau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'émotion européenne: Dante, Sade, Aquin by Robert Richard

La vie comme exil (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sahel by Franco Catanzariti
  • Illuminations autistes : pensées-éclairs by Hédi Bouraoui

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Entre femmes et jeunes filles: Le roman pour adolescentes en France et au Québec by Daniela Di Cecco

N’importe quoi (p. 172-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pour tourner la page by Marc Vaïs

Whose Canada? (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Museum Called Canada by Charlotte Gray and Sara Angel

Of Note (p. 175-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Man Called Moses: The Curious Life of Wellington Delaney Moses by Bill Gallaher

Of Note (p. 176-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bibliographie de la critique de la littérature québécoise au Canada anglais (1939-1989) by Réjean Beaudoin, Annette Hayward and André Lamontagne

Of Note (p. 177-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Rock and a Hard Place: Eine Untersuchung über die Traditions- und Kulturpflege der Ukrainer in Kanada by Julia Ulrike Köneke

Of Note (p. 178-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rosa’s District 6 by Rozena Maart

Of Note (p. 178-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Bird Factory by David Layton
  • A Girl Like Sugar by Emily Pohl-Weary

Of Note (p. 179-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Seed Catalogue by Robert Kroetsch and Jim Westergard