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All Book Reviews

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



There’s Smoke (p. 143-144)
by Kit Dobson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational by Elaine Dewar
Subjects: Non-Fiction, business, publishing industry

These Words Singing (p. 136-137)
by Dani Spinosa

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies by Bertrand Bickersteth
  • Lullabies in the Real World by Meredith Quartermain
Subjects:

Things of This World (p. 148-149)
by Tina Northrup

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Old World and Other Stories by Cary Fagan
  • Worldly Goods by Alice Petersen
Subjects: Alice Munro, memory

This Transitive Age (p. 108-09)
by Kevin McNeilly

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shouting Your Name Down the Well: Tankas and Haiku by David McFadden
  • Night Vision by Christopher Levenson
  • Swimming with Turtles: Travel Narratives, Spirit of Place by Doug Beardsley
Subjects:

Those Voices Speaking Now (p. 191-92)
by Neil Querengesser

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010 by Rudy Wiebe
Subjects: Cultural Studies, First Nations, Historical Fiction, Historiography, Mennonite, Multiculturalism, Nineteenth Century, Northern Canada, Prairie Writing, Settler Writing, Short Fiction, Twentieth Century

Those Were the Days (p. 169-171)
by Robert David Stacey

Book(s) Reviewed

  • If You're Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free?: Literature and Social Change by Tom Wayman
Subjects: Non-Fiction

Thoughtful Generosity (p. 143-46)
by Duffy Roberts

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dancing, with Mirrors by George Amabile
  • We, Beasts by Oana Avasilichioaei
  • YVR by W. H. New
Subjects: Poetry

Three Brats, One Hero (p. 141-142)
by Hilary Turner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Night on the Town by Caroline Merola
  • All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine by Monica Kulling
  • Curtain Up! by Dirk McLean
  • Lulu's Piano Lesson by Arlene Alda
Subjects: Children's Literature

Three Debuts (p. 172-74)
by Sue Sinclair

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 1996 by Sara Peters
  • Cutting Room by Sarah Pinder
  • Between Dusk and Night by Emily McGiffin
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Three Debuts and a Prequel (p. 167-169)
by Emily McGiffin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ignite by Kevin Spenst
  • Our Inland Sea by James Lindsay
  • Country Club by Andy McGuire
  • jabbering with bing bong by Kevin Spenst
Subjects: Poetry