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All Book Reviews

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



Race, Feeling, and Money in Asian North American Texts (p. 133-35)
by Eleanor Ty

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America by Christine Kim
  • Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism by Iyko Day
Subjects: Asian American, Asian Canadian, Multiculturalism

Raconter autrement (p. 130-131)
by Benoît Melançon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Numéro six. Passages du numéro six dans le hockey mineur, dans les catégories atome, moustique, pee-wee, bantam et midget; avec aussi quelques petites aventures s’y rattachant by Hervé Bouchard
Subjects: francophone, hockey

Raining Selves (p. 119-120)
by Will Smith

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks
  • Burqa of Skin by Nelly Arcan
Subjects: Contemporary

Raw Power (p. 184-85)
by Jim Johnstone

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Crystal Palace by Carey Toane
  • Campfire Radio Rhapsody by Robert Earl Stewart
  • Stray Dog Embassy by Natasha Nuhanovic
  • Hooligans by Lillian Necakov
  • Goodbye, Ukulele by Leigh Nash
Subjects: Poetry

Re-Sight and Re-Sound (p. 257-258)
by Vange Holtz Schramek

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Red Files by Lisa Bird-Wilson
  • How Festive the Ambulance by Kim Fu
Subjects: Poetry

Re: Educating the Imagination (p. 255-257)
by Graham Nicol Forst

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Educating the Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, and Future by Northrop Frye, Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar and Germaine Warkentin
Subjects: Essays, Non-Fiction

Re(dis)covered Histories (p. 155-57)
by Sunny Chan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Harem by Safia Fazlul
  • Tears of Mehndi by Raminder Sidhu
  • A Credit to Your Race by Truman Green
Subjects: Ethnic History, Indian/South Asian, Novel, Short Fiction

Re/appraisals (p. 199-200)
by Herb Wyile

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hugh MacLennan by Frank M. Tierney
  • Context North America: Canadian/U.S. Literary Relations by Camille La Bossiere
Subjects: Biography, Canadian Studies, Comparative, Literary Criticism, United States

Readable and Charming (p. 227-228)
by Misao Dean

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney: 1887-1890 by C. Ted Behne
  • The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney: Vol. 2, 1891-1896 by C. Ted Behne
Subjects: Travel Writing

Reading as Living (p. 159-160)
by Sarah Banting

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Readopolis by Bertrand Laverdure and Oana Avasilichioaei
Subjects: Fiction