Book Reviews

Altérés de loin (p. 104-105)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mystique by Mylène Gilbert-Dumas
  • On finit toujours par payer by Jean Lemieux

Generalizations (p. 105-107)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination by Christopher N. Kendall
  • Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs: Gay Suburbia and the Grammar of Social Identity by Wayne H. Brekhaus

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Frida: Paint me as a Volcano/Frida: Un Volcan de Souffrance by Keith Garebian
  • Made in Auroville, India by Monique Patenaude
  • Contes iraniens islamisés by Shodja Eddin Ziaïan

Seeing What He Saw (p. 108-110)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • As For Sinclair Ross by David Stouck

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada: An Anthology by Michael Greenstein
  • The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader by Richard Menkis and Norman Ravvin
  • Contemporary Antisemitism, Canada and the World by Derek J. Penslar, Michael Marrus and Janice Gross Stein

New Regionalisms (p. 113-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies by Alison Calder and Robert Wardhaugh

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature by Justin D. Edwards

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton by Richard A. Davies

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les dépouilles de l'€™altéité by Daniel Castillo Durante

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Vie littéraire au Québec by Denis Saint-Jacques and Maurice Lemire

Come Fly with Them (p. 121-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany by Graeme Gibson
  • Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World by Candace Savage

Fenced In (p. 122-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sur le terrain de la traduction by Hélène Buzelin
  • Les Originaux by L.E. Vollick and Pierre Desruisseaux

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les secrets de la Sphinxe: Lectures de l’œuvre d’Anne-Marie Alonzo by Janine Ricouart and Roseanna L. Dufault
  • Momo et Loulou by Louise Desjardins and Mona Latif-Ghattas

Lectures sur mesure (p. 126-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dans le muskeg by Margeurite Primeau
  • Lèche-vitrine by Sophie Lepage

Before We Forgot (p. 127-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Professionalism of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Betty A. Schellenberg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: a Biography by Robert Thacker

Taking Stock (p. 130-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Canadian Housewife: An Affectionate History by Rosemary Neering

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stone by Stone: Exploring Ancient Sites of the Canadian Plains by Liz Bryan
  • The Buffalo People: Pre-contact Archaeology on the Canadian Plains by Liz Bryan

An Important Book (p. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther by Christine Wiesenthal

Multiple Horizons (p. 134-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Brush with Life by John Koerner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hans Christian Andersen: His Fairy Tale Life by Hjøžrdis Varmer, Lilian Brøgger and Tiina Nunnally
  • The Nutcracker by Karen Kain and Rajka Kupesic

Book(s) Reviewed

  • New Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, 1900 – 1920 by Sandra Campbell and Lorraine McMullen

Granting Audience (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Collected Works of George Grant: Volume 3, 1960-1969 by Arthur Davis and Henry Roper

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paris Québec by Claudine Bertrand, Marie Vautier and Stephen Scobie

Figuring Wisdom (p. 141-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wisdom & Metaphor by Jan Zwicky

Beyond the Balagan (p. 142-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel
  • Look for Me by Edeet Ravel

Covering Geometries (p. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative by Mary Burger, Robert GlüŒck, Camille Roy and Gail Scott
  • Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing by Ray Robertson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
  • The Program by Hal Niedzviecki

Challenging Women (p. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wanted by Sally Clark
  • Chronic by Linda Griffiths
  • The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Marie Clements

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon by Nicole Brossard and Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Traduction littéraire et sociabilité interculturelle au Canada (1950-1960) by Patricia Godbout
  • Les passages obligés de l'écriture migrante by Simon Harel

Immigrant Memoirs (p. 151-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Short Version by Stan Persky
  • Beethoven'€™s Mask: Notes on My Life and Times by George Jonas

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Écrire dans la maison du père. L'émergence du féminin dans la tradition littéraire du Québec by Patricia Smart
  • Ouvrir la voie/x. Le processus constitutif d’un sous-champ littéraire féministe au Québec (1960-1990) by Isabelle Boisclair

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Deactivated West 100 by Don McKay
  • The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination by Lawrence Buell
  • History of the Book in Canada, Volume One: Beginnings to 1840 by Patricia Lockhart Fleming, Gilles Gallichan and Yvan Lamonde

Quest for Family (p. 157-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ingrid and the Wolf by André Alexis
  • The Vacation by Polly Horvath

Books of Secrets (p. 158-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Journey Prize Stories: From the Best of Canada’s New Writers by James Grainger and Nancy Lee
  • When She Was Queen: Stories by M. G. Vassanji

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Wall of Light by Edeet Ravel

Unstable Boundaries (p. 161-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, & Social Imagination by Julie Cruikshank

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Past Imperfect by Suzanne Buffam
  • Modern and Normal by Karen Solie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Must Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries by Christl Verduyn
  • Beyond Recall by Lise Weil and Mary Meigs

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shi-shi-etko by Nicola I. Campbell
  • The Girl from Chimel by Rigoberta Menchu
  • The Red Sash by Jean E. Pendziwol

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Children of the Day by Sandra Birdsell
  • The Wreckage by Michael Crummy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Oatmeal and the Catechism: Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec by Margaret Bennett
  • Scots in Canada by Jenni Calder

Escaping Prisons (p. 170-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Time In Between by David Bergen
  • The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly

Women Writing Women (p. 173-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I Married the Klondike by Laura Beatrice Berton
  • Literary Sisterhoods: Imagining Women Artists by Deborah Heller

Smack! Whup! Honk! (p. 175-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Short History of Indians in Canada by Thomas King

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fantômier by Marie-Andrée Donovan
  • Centrifuge. Extrait de narration. Poésie faite de concentré by Éric Charlebois
  • First Fire/ Ce feu qui dévore : Poems / Poèmes by Nadine McInnis, Andrée Christensen and Jacques Flamand

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionnaires français et littératures québécoise et canadienne-française by Gerardo Arcerenza
  • L'Ontario français dans le Canada français avant 1911. Contribution à l'€™histoire sociale by Fernand Ouellet
  • Le drapeau franco-ontarien by Guy Gaudreau

Touching Gods (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vandal Love by D.Y. Béchard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beyond This Point by Holley Rubinsky

Mirroring Madness (p. 181-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark

Fear Factor (p. 182-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Blood Sports by Eden Robinson

Classical Riffs (p. 184-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fabrizio's Return by Mark Frutkin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment by Melody Hessing, Catriona Sandilands and Rebecca Raglon

Of Note (p. 188-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel

Of Note (p. 189-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature by Conny Steenman-Marcusse

Of Note (p. 189-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark by Christopher Dewdney

Of Note (p. 190-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Tensions de l'errance by André Désilets

Of Note (p. 191-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Traduction est une histoire d'amour by Jacques Poulin