Book Reviews

Ends of Days (p. 126-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
  • Player One: What Is to Become of Us by Douglas Coupland
  • The Sky is Falling by Caroline Adderson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Circumstances Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters' Reports from the War of 1885 by Michael Barnholden

Quêtes (p. 129-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Epiphany, Arizona by Pierre Barrette
  • La lenteur du monde by Michel Pleau
  • Les Yeux sur moi by Martin Thibault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj
  • The Year of Finding Memory by Judy Fong Bates

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'ecole du regard by Antoine Boisclair
  • La fatigue d'etre by Jacques Beaudry

Celebrating Lowry (p. 134-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Malcolm Lowry: From the Mersey to the World by Bryan Biggs and Helen Tookey

Folle jeunesse (p. 134-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • ne pas humecter by Charles Drouin
  • Offrandes de la jouissance by Marylène Bertrand
  • Orpailleur de bisous by Laurent Poliquin

Place au spectacle! (p. 135-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mai au bal des prédateurs by Marie-Claire Blais

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Short History of Forgetting by Johanna Skibsrud
  • I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being by Johanna Skibsrud
  • The Annotated Bee & Me by Tim Bowling

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Letters From Rupert's Land, 1826-1840 by Helen E. Ross
  • Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 by Stephen R. Bown

Book(s) Reviewed

  • [mystism]: Terre ne se meurt pas by Michaël La Chance
  • Cahiers d'Icare by André Brochu

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La transculture et ViceVersa by Lamberto Tassinari, Fulvio Caccia and Bruno Ramirez

Seriously Taken (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Down the Road to Eternity by M.A.C. Farrant
  • The English Stories by Cynthia Flood
  • Loose Pearls by D.C. Troicuk
  • Welcome to Canada by David Carpenter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Extraits de cafés by André Carpentier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • ROM: Read Only Memory by Jacques Rousseau
  • Sous pression by Jean-François Chassay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le coeur de la tempête by Herménégilde Chiasson and Louis-Dominique Lavigne

The Many or One (p. 145-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Revolver by Kevin Connolly
  • Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa Robertson
  • Be Calm, Honey by David McFadden

Inventer la vie (p. 147-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Je ne veux pas mourir seul by Gil Courtemanche

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sauver le monde by Marc-Alain Wolff
  • Le Monde, Le Lézard et Moi by Gil Courtemanche

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chacal, mon frère by Gracia Couturier
  • Fractures du dimanche by Michel Ouellette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Galore by Michael Crummey
  • Where White Horses Gallop by Beatrice MacNeil
  • You Better Watch Out by Greg Malone

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fishing for Bacon by Michael Davie
  • Lemon by Cordelia Strube
  • Stripmalling by Jon Paul Fiorentino

Collecting His Wits (p. 153-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Collected Works of George Grant: Volume 4, 1970-1988 by Henry Roper and Arthur Davis

Sundry Tundra Fun (p. 155-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bird Child by Nan Forler
  • Out of Slavery: The Journey to Amazing Grace by Linda Granfield
  • Sail Away with Me by Jane Collins-Philippe
  • What Came First? by Sandro Natalini

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Implicate Me: Short Essays on Reading Contemporary Poems by Elana Wolff
  • Mobility of Light: The Poetry of Nicole Brossard by Nicole Brossard and Louise H. Forsyth

Les poupées russes (p. 158-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L' Hiver retrouvé by Marie-Noëlle Gagnon
  • Rose Amer by Martine Delvaux

Frye’s Legacy (p. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye on Twentieth-Century Literature by Northrop Frye and Glen Robert Gill

Vocations (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • she walks for days inside a thousand eyes by Sharron Proulx-Turner
  • Skin Like Mine by Garry Gottfriedson
  • The Lil'wat World of Charlie Mack by Dorothy Kennedy and Randy Bouchard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Présences de Ducharme by Élisabeth Haghebaert, Elisabeth Nardout-Laferge and Marie-Andrée Beaudet
  • Réjean Ducharme: une marginalité paradoxale by Élisabeth Haghebaert

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Playing With Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin by David Church
  • Loop, Print, Fade + Flicker: David Rimmer's Moving Images by Mike Hoolboom

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Her Mother's Ashes 3 by Nurjehan Aziz
  • In the Wake of Loss by Sheila James
  • The Fourth Canvas by Rana Bose and Sharon Butala

Captivity and Race (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles

Beyond the Page (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fauna by Alissa York
  • The Age of Water Lilies by Theresa Kishkan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pulse by Lydia Kwa

Nouvelles du large (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hors du bleu by Luc LaRochelle
  • Le souffle du dragon by Jean-Marc Beausoleil

Native Arc (p. 171-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The New Media Nation: Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication by Valerie Alia
  • When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse 1850-1990 by Emma LaRocque

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cinq secondes by Jacques Savoie
  • Eucalyptus by Mauricio Segura
  • Quinze secondes de célébrité by François Leblanc

Book(s) Reviewed

  • African Nova Scotian-Mi'kmaw Relations by Paula Madden
  • Multimodality in Canadian Black Feminist Writing: Orality and the Body in the Work of Harris, Philip, Allen, and Brand by Maria Caridad Casas

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy by Ronnie Burkett
  • Toronto the Good by Andrew Moodie
  • While We're Young by Don Hannah

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After Peaches by Michelle Mulder
  • Shapeshifter by Holly Bennett
  • The Gnome's Eye by Anna Kerz
  • Walking Backward by Catherine Austen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Porny Stories by Eva Moran
  • The Hungry Mirror by Lisa de Nikolits

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood by Reingard M. Nischik

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Seven Ravens by Lesley Choyce
  • The Wanton Troopers by Alden Nowlan
  • In Another Life by Raymond Fraser

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Therefore Choose by Keith Oatley
  • Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Molly's Cue by Alison Acheson
  • The Broken Thread by Linda Smith
  • The Secret Fiend by Shane Peacock

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Une idée simple by Yvon Rivard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names by Soraya Peerbaye
  • R's Boat by Lisa Robertson
  • Track & Trace by Zachariah Wells
  • Against the Hard Angle by matt robinson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • noir blanc nabis by Diane-Ischa Ross
  • Aeterna: Le jardin des immortelles by Nancy Vickers

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le christianisme à un tournant by Paul-Emile Roy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand by Leslie Sanders
  • Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke by George Elliott Clarke
  • lousy explorers by Laisha Rosnau

Breathing Lessons (p. 192-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • declining america by Rob Budde
  • Pause for Breath by Sarah Robyn
  • Swim Class and Other Poems by George Whipple

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Unsettled Remains by Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte
  • What the Furies Bring by Kenneth Sherman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tibetans in Exile by Alan Twigg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Transnational Canadas by Kit Dobson
  • Unfastened by Eleanor Ty

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Clay Man: The Golem of Prague by Irene N. Watts
  • Wounded by Eric Walters
  • Medina Hill by Trilby Kent
  • The Battle for Duncragglin by Andrew H. Vanderwal