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All Book Reviews

For all book reviews published by Canadian Literature and other back issue content, see Full Issues.



Conducting Unreliable Narrators (p. 152-54)
by Joel Martineau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
  • The Confabulist by Steven Galloway
Subjects: Novel, Twenty-First Century

Constructing Métis Identity in Canada (p. 103-105)
by Sarah MacKenzie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • "Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood by Chris Anderson
  • Métis in Canada: History, Identity, Law, and Politics by Christopher Adams, Gregg Dahl and Ian Peach
Subjects: Identity, Indigenous Literature

Contact Zones (p. 200-202)
by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez

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
Subjects: Historical Fiction, History, Holocaust

Contemplating Nostalgia (p. 164-65)
by Alexis Foo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Truth of Houses by Ann Scowcroft
  • Burning House by Richard Lemm
  • Beckett Soundings by Inge Israel
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, Poetry

Contemporary Classics (p. 243-245)
by Neil Querengesser

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Really Good Brown Girl: Brick Books Classics 4 by Marilyn Dumont and Lee Maracle
  • Riffs: Brick Books Classics 3 by Dennis Lee
Subjects: Contemporary, Poetry

Contextualizing 1759 (p. 129-130)
by Michel Ducharme

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Loyalism and the Conquest by Katherine Morrison
  • The Culture of the Seven Years' War: Empire, Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Frans De Bruyn and Shaun Regan
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Geography, Politics

Contrasting New Worlds (p. 148-149)
by Denyse Lynde

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Art of Building a Bunker by Adam Lazarus and Guillermo Verdecchia
  • The Virgin Trial by Kate Hennig
Subjects: Drama

Copyright and Canadian Publishing (p. 177-78)
by Sara Bannerman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dominion and Agency: Copyright and the Structuring of the Canadian Book Trade by Eli MacLaren
Subjects: Authorship, Canadian Studies, Culture, History, Media & Communications, Media & Communications, Nationalism, Publishing

Corps à corps (p. 159-160)
by Emmanuel Bouchard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Comme une seule chair by Paul Chamberland
  • Entre l'acier et la chair by Isabelle Gaudet-Labine
  • Tout Comme by Marie Bélisle
Subjects: Poetry

Counternarratives of Migration (p. )
by Rina Garcia Chua

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Primal Sketches by Caroline Wong
  • I will be More like Myself in the Next World: Poems by Matsuki Masutani
Subjects: