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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

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

Book(s) Reviewed

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

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

Histoires de copistes (p. 150-151)
by Magali Blanc

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les sanguines by Elsa Pépin
  • Au péril de la mer by Dominique Fortier
Subjects: Fiction, francophone

Histoires de dislocations (p. 157-159)
by Patricia Godbout

Book(s) Reviewed

  • De l’impuissance à l’autonomie : Évolution culturelle et enjeux identitaires des minorités canadiennes-françaises by Laurent Poliquin
  • La contre-culture au Québec by Karim Larose and Frédéric Emmanuel Rondeau
Subjects: Non-Fiction, francophone

Historic Heroines (p. 165-166)
by Rachelle Delaney

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Home Free by Kim Thúy
  • Folly by Marthe Jocelyn
Subjects: Children's Literature, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

Histories of Girlhood (p. 186-88)
by Hannah McGregor

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Goodtime Girl by Tess Fragoulis
  • The Western Light by Susan Swan
Subjects: Diaspora, Feminism, Gender, Historical Fiction, Memory & Identity, Northern Canada, Novel, Sports Writing, Trauma, Twentieth Century, War, Women's Literature