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All Book Reviews

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



H3R3 1 4M (p. 159-160)
by Ryan J. Cox

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
Subjects: Indigenous Literature, Non-Fiction

Hath Not a Jew (p. 147-149)
by MLA Chernoff

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Dead Man by Nora Gold
  • The Uncollected David Rakoff by David Rakoff and Timothy G. Young
  • Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer by Stuart Ross
Subjects: Biography, Fiction, Jewish-Canadian

Haunted Histories, Storied Selves (p. 168-69)
by Erin Wunker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Obituary by Gail Scott
  • Girl Unwrapped by Gabriella Goliger
Subjects: Feminism, First Nations, Gay/Lesbian, Holocaust, Memory & Identity, Novel, Quebec, Women's Literature, francophone

Healing Imagination (p. 142-44)
by Madelaine Jacobs

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wings of Glass by Amberlee Kolson
  • Voices in the Waterfall by Beth Cuthand
  • Five Wives Club: Coast Salish Style by Lee Maracle
Subjects: Gender, Landscape/Space, Native Studies, Poetry

Healing, Truth Telling, and World Making (p. )
by Alicia Fahey

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
  • We All Go Back to the Land: The Who, Why, and How of Land Acknowledgements by Suzanne Keeptwo
Subjects:

Herbalists and Humanitarians (p. 137-138)
by Stephen Ney

Book(s) Reviewed

  • White Elephant by Catherine Cooper
Subjects: Culture, Fiction, science vs spirituality

Here and There (p. )
by Owen Torrey

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Smithereens by Terence Young
  • The Debt by Andreae Callanan
  • The Pit by Tara Borin
Subjects:

Here for the Surprises (p. )
by Dani Spinosa

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Exhibitionist by Molly Cross-Blanchard
  • Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne
Subjects:

Here, Now, Unfolding (p. )
by Kyle Kinaschuk

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Here by Colin Browne
Subjects:

Hidden and Exposed in BC (p. 164-66)
by Reece Steinberg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • And See What Happens: The Journey Poems by Ursula Vaira
  • Seeing Lessons by Catherine Owen
  • A Thoroughly Wicked Woman: Murder, Perjury & Trial by Newspaper by Betty Keller
  • Edge of the Sound: Memoirs of a West Coast Log Salvager by Jo Hammond
  • 4 Poets by Onjana Yawnghwe, Al Rempel, Peter Morin and Daniela Elza
Subjects: Biography, British Columbia, Historical Fiction, Poetry