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All Book Reviews

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



Word Alchemy (p. 180-181)
by Gabrielle Lim

Book(s) Reviewed

  • How Happy Became Homosexual: And Other Mysterious Semantic Shifts by Howard Richler
Subjects: Gender, Poetry, Queer Theory

Wordplay, Play on Words (p. 128-29)
by Natasha Dagenais

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Words, Words, Words: Essays and Memoirs by George Bowering
  • Tracing the Lines: Reflections on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki by Maia Joseph, Larissa Lai, Christopher Lee and Christine Kim
Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Poetry

Words About Things (p. 142-43)
by Alison Calder

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Book of Frog: un amuse-espirit by Jan Zwicky
  • The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things by Lorna Crozier
  • Red by George Elliott Clarke
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Criticism, Poetry

Words, Places, Silences (p. 136-37)
by Lorraine York

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules by Jared Bland
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Theory

Work, Women, and War (p. 161-62)
by Jan Lermitte

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Home & Family, Women's Studies, World War I

Working, Drawing in the Oil Sands (p. 191-192)
by Rachel Jekanowski

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Subjects:

World of a Reading Self (p. 163-165)
by Andrea Davis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand
Subjects:

Worlds in Indigenous Words (p. 147-149)
by Madelaine Jacobs

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Written as I Remember It: Teachings (?əms ta?aw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder by Elise Paul, Paige Raibmon and Harmony Johnson
  • Me Artsy by Drew Hayden Taylor
Subjects: Art, History, Indigenous Literature

Wounds to Heal (p. 152)
by Richard Pickard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Summer of the Horse by Donna Kane
Subjects: Non-Fiction

Woven Narratives (p. )
by Nola Peshkin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Radium Girl: Stories by Sofi Papamarko
  • The Bjorkan Sagas by Harold R. Johnson
Subjects: