Book Reviews

Luck of the Draw (p. 129-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Luck by Joan Barfoot

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Thèmes et variations. Regards sur la littérature franco-ontarienne by Lucie Hotte and Johanne Melançon
  • Appartenances dans la littérature francophone d'Amérique du Nord by Larry Steele, Sophie Beaulé and Joëlle Cauville
  • Transpoétique. Éloge du nomadisme by Hédi Bouraoui

Doctors in Distress (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam

Memoirs and Musings (p. 133-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • You'€™re in Canada Now . . . A Memoir of Sorts by Susan Musgrave

Going Downstream (p. 134-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rediscovering the Prairies: Journeys By Dog, Horse, and Canoe by Norman Henderson
  • Reading the River: A Traveller’s Companion to the North Saskatchewan River by Myrna Kostash

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The True Blue of Islands by Pamela Mordecai
  • Calling Cards: New Poetry from Caribbean/Canadian Women by Pamela Mordecai
  • Back Talk: Plays of Black Experience by Louise Delisle

Green Liberalism (p. 137-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • How to be a Green Liberal: Nature, Value and Liberal Philosophy by Simon Hailwood

What’s New? (p. 139-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane
  • The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry by Carmine Starnino
  • Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry by Derek Beaulieu, Jason Christie and Angela Rawlings

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs by Katherine Barber

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Violin Lover by Emily Doucet
  • The Shape I Gave You by Martha Baillie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Baby Khaki's Wings by Anar Ali
  • The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hand Luggage by P. K. Page
  • Bright Centre by Elizabeth Brewster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les mains si blanches de Pye Chang by Francine Allard
  • Genèse de l'oubli by Clara Ness
  • La femme-homme by Simone Piuze

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

Donner à voir (p. 151-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Panoptikon by Francis Catalano
  • L'€™oiseau tatoué by Herménégilde Chiasson
  • Un homme de trop by Antonio D'Alfonso
  • La chasse spirituelle by Fulvio Caccia

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trois fois passera by Françoise Clément-Bowden

Book(s) Reviewed

  • é‰cran total by Laurent Chabin
  • Romans de la poésie by Yves Boisvert

Surface Dwellers (p. 154-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • JPod by Douglas Coupland

Sacred Pains (p. 156-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mandorla by Nancy Holmes
  • He Claims He Is the Direct Heir by Lazar Sarna
  • Hurt Thyself by Andrew Steinmetz

That Tyrant, I (p. 158-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tacoma Narrows by Mitchell Parry
  • The Village of Sliding Time by David Zieroth
  • Then Again: Something of a Life by Iain Higgins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory by Linda Spalding

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Clio's Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars by Tim Cook

Diverse Voices (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Weather'€™s Edge: A Compendium of Women in Newfoundland and Labrador by Linda Cullum, Carmelita McGrath and Marilyn Porter

Troubling Visions (p. 164-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tattoo Joint by Jason Gileno
  • Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout by Tomson Highway
  • Yahrzeit by Alex Poch-Goldin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver by Paul Yee

Book(s) Reviewed

  • what the auntys say by Sharon Proulx-Turner
  • breathing for breadth by Salimah Valiani
  • Gardening in the Tropics by Olive Senior

Scar Tissue (p. 169-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest by Rudy Wiebe

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Blue Feast by Shawna Lemay
  • Sooner by Margaret Christakos
  • This Way the Road by Nina Berkhout

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A History for the Future: Rewriting Memory and Identity in Quebec by Jocelyn Létourneau, Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott

Culture Up and Away (p. 174-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Concepts of Culture: Art, Politics & Society by Adam Muller

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bringing Back the Dodo: Lessons in Natural and Unnatural History by Wayne Grady
  • A Place Between the Tides. A Naturalist’s Reflections on the Salt Marsh by Harry Thurston

Poems of Witness (p. 177-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Momentary Dark: New Poems by Margaret Avison
  • Inventory by Dionne Brand
  • Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier by Catherine Hunter

The Ties that Bind (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In a World Created by a Drunken God by Drew Hayden Taylor
  • Pursued by a Bear: Talks, Monologues, and Tales by Daniel David Moses

Desire and Art (p. 180-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Innocent Eye Test by Michael Healey
  • Cold Meat Party by Brad Fraser
  • The Ventriloquist by Larry Tremblay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Théâtre comique de Régis Roy (1864-1944) by Mariel O'Neill-Karch and Pierre Paul Karch
  • Épinal by Robert Marinier
  • La Meute by Esther Beauchemin
  • Le Christ est apparu au Gun Club by Herménégilde Chiasson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 'Pictures Bring Us Messages' /Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: : Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation by Alison K. Brown, Laura Peers and Kainai Nation

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Inter Alia by David Seymour
  • A Bad Year for Journalists by Lisa Pasold
  • The Lightness Which is Our World, Seen from Afar by Ven Begamudré

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing Between the Lines: Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators by Agnès Whitfield

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mitchell: The Life of W.O. Mitchell: The Years of Fame, 1948-1998 by Ormond Mitchell and Barbara Mitchell

Plays in Theory (p. 189-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Judith Thompson: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre. Volume Three by Ric Knowles

Rueful Affirmative (p. 191-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vers le sud by Dany Laferrière

Back to Juno (p. 192-193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Juno Beach: 3rd Canadian and 79th Armoured Divisions by Tim Saunders

Of Note (p. 193-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Tent by Margaret Atwood

Of Note (p. 194-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Engine of Recall by Karl Schroeder
  • Earthbaby by Peter Such

Of Note (p. 195-196)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La grosse ferme d'à côté by André D. Beaudoin

Of Note (p. 196-197)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wild Flowers by Emily Carr

Of Note (p. 197-198)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet by Brian Wright-McLeod