Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Confluences 2: Essays on the New Canadian Literature by Nurjehan Aziz
  • A Mariner's Guide to Self Sabotage by Bill Gaston

Being Seen by Place (p. 114-115)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place by Tim Lilburn
  • Walking by Nelson Ball

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wherever We Mean to Be: Selected Poems 1975-2015 by Robyn Sarah
  • No TV for Woodpeckers by Gary Barwin
  • On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood by Richard Harrison

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Forward: The second Play in the Arctic Cycle by Chantal Bilodeau
  • Daisy by Sean Devine
  • Truth and Treason by Rahul Varma

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Dragon Run: Two Canadians, Ten Bhutanese, One Stray Dog by Tony Robinson-Smith
  • Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur by Yvonne Blomer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties by John Borrows and Michael Coyle

Lives and Myths (p. 121-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries by Gérard Bouchard
  • Palookaville: Seth and the Art of Graphic Autobiography by Tom Smart

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hermetic Divagations by Michael Boughn
  • Leaving Mile End by Jon Paul Fiorentino
  • My Dinosaur by François Turcot and Erín Mouré

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw by Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace
  • Argimou: A Legend of the Micmac by S. Huyghue S. Douglass
  • Mixed Blessings: Indigenous Encounters with Christianity in Canada by Tolly Bradford and Chelsea Horton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic by Rachel Bryant

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Challenging Stories: Canadian Literature for Social Justice in the Classroom by Anne Burke, Ingrid Johnston and Angela Ward
  • Trickster Chases the Tale of Education by Sylvia Moore

Various Canadiana (p. 129-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • William Hutt: Soldier Actor by Keith Garebian
  • Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada by Claire Elizabeth Campbell
  • L.M. Montgomery and War by Andrea McKenzie and Jane Ledwell

Canada on Stage (p. 131-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Robert Chafe
  • Indian Arm by Hiro Kanagawa
  • 1979 by Michael Healey

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Snacks: A Canadian Food History by Janis Thiessen
  • Catharine Parr Traill's The Female Emigrant's Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas

Afterwords (p. 134-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics by Olivia Custer, Penelope Deutscher and Samir Haddad
  • The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy by Julia Cooper

Space and Time (p. 135-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories by Myrl Coulter
  • You Can't Stay Here by Jasmina Odor

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Night Became Years by Jason Stefanik
  • This Real by Concetta Principe and Beth Follett
  • Escape from Wreck City by John Creary

Imagining Endings (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief by Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen E. Landman
  • Shaping a World Already Made: Landscape and Poetry of the Canadian Prairies by Carl J. Tracie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Faunics by Jack Davis
  • Prison Industrial Complex Explodes by Mercedes Eng

A Linguistic Turn (p. 140-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literary Culture and Translation: New Aspects of Comparative Literature by Dorothy M. Figueria and Chandra Mohan
  • Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators by Sneja Gunew

Strange Encounters (p. 142-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Extended Families: A Memoir of India by Ven Begamudré
  • Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics by Barry Freeman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nouvelles Obscurités by Alex Gagnon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Collected Tarts and Other Indelicacies by Tabatha Southey
  • TransCanadian Feminist Fictions: New Cross-Border Ethics by Libe García Zarranz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art: The First Sixty Years of the Canada Council for the Arts by Monica Gattinger
  • Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada by Alan Gordon

A Little Water (p. 148-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Place You'll Never Be by Rick Hillis
  • A Handbook for Beautiful People by Jennifer Spruit
  • All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Carole Giangrande

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Canada by Marlene Goldman
  • Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story by Laurie Kruk

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River by Susan M. Hill
  • Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of the Working-Class Struggle by Paul Buhle and Graphic History Collective

Keeping Time (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Longest Year by Daniel Grenier
  • Scattered Bones by Maggie Siggins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance by Allison Hargreaves

Endangered Places (p. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Islands of Grass by Trevor Herriot and Branimir Gjetvaj
  • Euclid's Orchard & Other Essays by Theresa Kishkan
  • Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia by David Pitt-Brooke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fail Safe by Nikki Sheppy
  • Control Suppress Delete by Angela Hibbs
  • 3 Summers by Lisa Robertson

H3R3 1 4M (p. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980–2010 by Tomson Highway and Jordan Abel
  • full-metal indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead

Reclaiming Identity (p. 160-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson

Bearing and Scale (p. 162-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wayside Sang by Cecily Nicholson
  • Voodoo Hypothesis by Canisia Lubrin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards by Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig

Life/Lying Stories (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • All the Beloved Ghosts by Alison MacLeod
  • First Things First: Early and Uncollected Stories by Diane Schoemperlen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The English Short Story in Canada: From the Dawn of Modernism to the 2013 Nobel Prize by Reingard M. Nischik

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
  • Shot-Blue by Jesse Ruddock

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Smaller Hours by Kevin Shaw
  • Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie by Jay Ritchie

Off on an Angle (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reveries of a Solitary Biker by Catriona Strang
  • The Receiver by Sharon Thesen

Our Places (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Our Place: Changing the Nature of Alberta by Kevin Van Tighem
  • The Bosun Chair by Jennifer Bowering Delisle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lost in September by Kathleen Winter