Book Reviews

Birth of Quebec Lit (p. 113-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Conquête des lettres au Québec (1759-1799) by Bernard J. Andrès

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami

Unpopular Culture (p. 115-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unpopular Culture: Transorming the European Comic Book in the 1990s by Bart Beaty

Writing Quebec (p. 117-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Years of Fire: Charles the Bold, Volume 2 by Yves Beauchemin and Wayne Grady
  • The Hunting Ground by Lise Tremblay and Linda Gaboriau

Opening the Gate (p. 118-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reading Stargate SG-1 by Stan Beeler and Lisa Dickson

Bissettiad (p. 120-121)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane by bill bissett
  • northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing by bill bissett
  • radiant danse uv being: a poetic portrait of bill bissett by Jeff Pew and Stephen Roxborough

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tout a une fin by Hélène Boissé
  • L'Espace de la musique by Alain Gagnon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adventures in Debt Collection by Fred Booker
  • The Mole Chronicles by Andy Brown
  • Dancing Nightly in the Tavern by Mark Anthony Jarman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What it Takes to Be Human by Marilyn Bowering
  • The Fearsome Particles by Trevor Cole

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Orphan Love by Nadia Bozak

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Talks by Robert Bringhurst
  • Wild Language by Robert Bringhurst

First Engagements (p. 128-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adam's Peak by Heather Burt
  • The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Between Trains by Barry Callaghan
  • A Heart in Port by Emily Givner
  • A Grave in the Air by Stephen Henighan

Telling Her Stories (p. 131-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • This and That by Emily Carr and Ann-Lee Switzer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Lenteur au bout de l'aile by France Cayouette
  • Savanes, suivi de Poèmes de septembre by Joël Des Rosiers
  • L'Oeil de la lumière by Pierre Raphaël Pelletier
  • Entre les murs de la Baltique by Dominique Zalitis

Amour et bestiaire (p. 134-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Petittes nouvelles... by Jean Charlebois
  • La mort de Mignonne et autres histoires by Marie Hélène Poitras

Vents et marée (p. 135-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Depuis toujours, j'entendais la mer by Andrée Christensen
  • La Cité des vents by Pierre Yergeau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Affûts, précédé Rue de nuit by Guy Cloutier
  • Les îles by Louise Cotnoir
  • Origine des méridiens by Paul Bélanger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada by Daniel Coleman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry/Anarchy/Abstraction by Stephen Collis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Blue Hour of the Day by Lorna Crozier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cobra et colibri by Jean-Paul Daoust
  • Cinéma gris by Jean-Paul Daoust

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alma by Claude Beausoleil
  • L'atelier de L'Âge de la parole by Catherine Morency
  • Âme, foi et poésie by Jean Désy

Children Alone (p. 144-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pure Spring by Brian Doyle
  • The Royal Woods by Matt Duggan

Seeing and Being (p. 145-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Through Lover's Lane: L.M. Montgomery’s Photography and Visual Imagination by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly

Remembering WWI (p. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief by Suzanne Evans
  • Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment by Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci and Mike Bechthold

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Visible Living: Poems Selected and New by Marya Fiamengo, Janice Fiamengo, Seymour Mayne and Russell Thornton
  • Let Me Go! by Anne Claire Poirier and Nora Alleyn
  • Take Us Quietly by Tammy Armstrong

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les anglicismes de la vie quotidienne des Québecois by Jean Forest
  • 1902-2002 La Société du parler français au Canada cent ans après sa fondation : mise en valeur d’un patrimoine culturel by Claude Verreault, Louis Mercier and Thomas Lavoie
  • French as the Common Language in Québec: History, Debates and Positions by Ian Lockerbie, Ines Molinaro, Karim Larose and Leigh Oakes
  • La langue française au Manitoba (Canada) : histoire et évolution lexicométrique by Liliane Rodriguez

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gabrielle Roy, autobiographe : subjectivité, passions et discours by Cécilia W. Francis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing the Everyday: Women’s Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada by Danielle Fuller

Goodbye to an Ideal (p. 154-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adieu, Betty Crocker by Francois Gravel and Sheila Fischman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Not Needing All the Words: Michael Ondaatje’s Literature of Silence by Annick Hillger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada by Franca Lacovetta
  • Home/Bodies: Geographies of Self, Place and Space by Wendy Schissel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Altérité et insularité : relations croisées dans les cultures francophones by Alessandra Ferraro
  • L'Autre en mémoire by Dominique Laporte
  • Practiques d l'ici, altérité et identité dans six romans québécois des années 1989-2002 by Svante Lindberg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La descente du singe by David Leblanc

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Cadence of Civil Elegies by Robert Lecker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • At the Zenith of the Empire by Stewart Lemoine
  • Omniscience by Tim Carlson
  • Lifedream by Herménégilde Chiasson and Jo-Anne Elder

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Empress of Asia by Adam Lewis Schroeder
  • Drina Bridge by Jim Bartley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vivre ainsi, suivi de Le Vent sombre by Paul Chanel Malenfant
  • Le Moindre vent by Luc Perrier
  • Rue Daubenton by Paul Chanel Malenfant

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization by Jerry Mander and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
  • Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat: A Celebration of Contemporary Maori & Northwest Coast Art by Nigel Reading and Gary Wyatt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Burning Time by Carol Matas
  • Orphan Ahwak by Raquel Rivera
  • Prisoners Under Glass by R. Patrick

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation by Peter Melville

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Woman with Demons: The Life of Kamiya Mieko by Yuzo Ota
  • One Chrysanthemum by Joan Itoh Burk

Bullshit Nations (p. 174-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What Lies Before Us by Morris Panych
  • In the Eyes of God by Raul Sanchez Inglis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vol de cendres by Jaume Pont and François Michel-Durazzo
  • Définitions mayas by Mercedes Roffé and Nelly Roffé
  • Utopies américaines au Québec et au Brésil by Lisa Soares de Souza

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anatomy of Keys by Steven Price
  • Writing the Tides: New and Selected Poems by Kevin Roberts
  • Dominican Moon by Ken Norris

Egodocuments (p. 179-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions by Julie Rak
  • Tracing the Autobiographical by Marlene Kadar, Linda Warley, Jeanne Perreault and Susanna Egan

Un Autre Montréal (p. 181-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nostalgie et tristesse by Sholem Shtern
  • Parcours migrants au Québec by Anne Pia De Luca and Alessandra Ferraro

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Cavalier bleu by Sandra Hobbs and Carmen Strano
  • Le Fou de Bosch by Sergio Kokis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Politics and Poetics of Passage in Canadian and Australian Culture and Fiction by Charlotte Sturgess and Penny Van Toorn

Urban Structures (p. 185-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Story House by Timothy Taylor

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Emily Carr by Ian M. Thom, Charles C. Hill and Johanne Lamoureux

Egoyan As Auteur (p. 189-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan by Jennifer Burwell, Mark Harris and Monique Tschofen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • India, India by Yolande Villemaire

Of Note (p. 191-92)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets by David Biespiel

Of Note (p. 192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kingdom, Phylum by Adam Dickinson

Of Note (p. 192-93)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas by Sheila Harrington and Judi Stevenson
  • Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley by Derek Hayes

Of Note (p. 193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape by Barry Lopez