Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • If We Were Birds by Erin Shields
  • So Many Doors by Celia McBride
  • The Nuttalls by Michael Healey
  • Theatres in the Round: Multi-Ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama by Marc Maufort and Dorothy Figueira
  • Tonight at the Tarragon: A Critic’s Anthology by Kamal Al-Solaylee

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers by Carmen L. Robertson and Mark Cronlund Anderson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story by Rita Leistner and Marie Clements
  • In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women’s Poetry by Jennifer Andrews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
  • A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
  • Tell It to the Trees by Anita Rau Badami

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972 (Studies in Gender and History) by Karen A. Balcom

Literature in BC (p. 146-48)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny by Caroline Woodward
  • The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors by Alan Twigg
  • Never Going Back by Antonia Banyard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bone Coulee by Larry Warwaruk
  • Mennonites Don’t Dance by Darcie Friesen Hossack
  • The Forest Horses by Byrna Barclay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poèmes (1975-1984) by Michel Beaulieu

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Antiterre : Utopium by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La nuit des morts-vivants by François Blais

Tons de blanc (p. 152-53)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le bruissement des possibles by Antoine Boisclair

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake by J. Brooks Bouson

Hockey Margins (p. 154-56)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stickhandling through the Margins: First Nations Hockey in Canada by Michael Robidoux
  • Le Canadien de Montréal : Une légende repensée by Nicolas Moreau and Audrey Laurin-Lamothe
  • Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels by Michael Buma

Signifier Desire (p. 156-57)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing by Clint Burnham

Between I and I (p. 157-58)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Err by Shane Rhodes
  • Blood is Blood by Carolyn Marie Souaid and Endre Farkas
  • I & I by George Elliott Clarke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les dictionnaires de la langue française au Québec : De la Nouvelle-France à aujourd’hui by Jean-Claude Boulanger and Monique C. Cormier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women’s Fiction of the 1990s by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Sonia Villegas-López and Belén Martín-Lucas

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out by Andrea Thompson and Adebe DeRango-Adem

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le recueil de Dorais : Volume I—Les essais by Fernand Dorais

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War by Susan Fisher

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Fetch by Nico Rogers
  • Glass Boys by Nicole Lundrigan
  • You Could Believe in Nothing by Jamie Fitzpatrick

Play’s the Thing (p. 167-68)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye’s Writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance. Vol. 28 by Garry Sherbert and Troni Y. Grande

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Obituary by Gail Scott
  • Girl Unwrapped by Gabriella Goliger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tom Thomson: Artist of the North by Wayne Larsen
  • Reflective Landscapes of the Anglophone Countries by Pascale Guibert

Écrire octobre (p. 171-72)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La constellation du lynx by Louis Hamelin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Attention écrivains méchants by Simon Harel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion by Erin Hurley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada by Christine Kim, Melina Baum Singer and Sophie McCall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven by Ross King

Textures (p. 179-80)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Deepwater Vee by Melanie Siebert
  • Mnemonic: A Book of Trees by Theresa Kishkan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Endgames by Andrew Stubbs
  • From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel by Eli Mandel
  • Gimp Crow by Ken Kowal

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L’abécédaire des monstres : Fragments de Réjean Ducharme by Marie-Hélène Larochelle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Creolization of Theory by Shu-mei Shih and Françoise Lionnet

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gangson by Andy Weaver
  • Glengarry by rob mclennan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gaston Miron : La vie d’un homme by Pierre Nepveu

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lettres à sa famille : 1803-1871 by Renée Blanchet, Georges Aubin and Louis-Joseph Papineau

Fragile Lives (p. 188-89)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Benevolence by Cynthia Holz
  • Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture by Gillian Roberts

Book(s) Reviewed

Book(s) Reviewed

  • De l’acteur vedette au théâtre de festival : Histoire des pratiques scéniques montréalaises 1940-1980 by Sylvain Schryburt

Reading the City (p. 193-94)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Measure of Paris by Stephen Scobie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Runaway Dreams by Richard Wagamese
  • The Next Sure Thing by Richard Wagamese
  • Louis: The Heretic Poems by Gregory Scofield

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
  • Progress: A Novel by Michael V. Smith

Abject Hero (p. 197-198)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune by Sharon Stewart and Roderick Stewart

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Story, One Song by Richard Wagamese
  • News by Drew Hayden Taylor

Contact Zones (p. 200-202)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Into the Heart of the Country by Pauline Holdstock
  • Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright—Puritan Child, Native Daughter, Mother Superior by Julie Wheelwright