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All Book Reviews

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



Western Vistas (p. 179-81)
by Krzysztof Majer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Naked in Academe: Celebrating Fifty Years of Creative Writing at UBC by Rhea Tregebov
  • Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture by Maria Tippett
Subjects: Architecture, Art, British Columbia, Canadian Studies, Non-Fiction

What Has Been and What Is Yet to Come (p. 144-145)
by Benjamin Hertwig

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beyond Afghanistan: An International Security Agenda for Canada by James Fergusson and Francis Furtado
  • Living with War: Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory by Robert Teigrob
Subjects: Twentieth Century, US, War

What is CanLit? (p. 173-74)
by Lee Skallerup Bessette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon
  • The Purchase by Linda Spalding
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Gender, Home & Family

What Kind of Debut Are You (p. 147-148)
by Geordie Miller

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers by Jason Freure
  • What Kind of Man Are You by Degan Davis
Subjects: Poetry

What They Wished For (p. 183-185)
by Seth Feldman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard
  • Joyce Wieland’s ‘The Far Shore' by Johanne Sloan
  • Wild at Heart: The Films of Nettie Wild by Mark Harris and Claudia Medina
Subjects: Film

When Poems Are Quilts (p. 147-148)
by Emily Wall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mowing by Marlene Cookshaw
  • A Tent, a Lantern, an Empty Bowl by M. Travis Lane
  • This Was the River by John Pass
Subjects:

When She Has Crossed the Bar (p. 160-161)
by Lindy Ledohowski

Book(s) Reviewed

  • May There Be No Sadness of Farewell by Agnes Grant
Subjects: First Nations, Mennonite, Novel

When Voices Intertwine (p. 264-266)
by Paul Watkins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst by Brent Wood and Mark Dickinson
Subjects: Biography, Indigenous Literature, Interdisciplinary

Where Ghosts Reside (p. 126-132)
by Lina Chhun

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Nail the Evening Hangs On. by Monica Sok
  • Ghost Face by Greg Santos
Subjects:

Where is the Justice? (p. 167-168)
by Olivia Burgess

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: A Critical Introduction by Jim Reynolds
Subjects: Non-Fiction