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All Book Reviews

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



Recollecting Home (p. 176-178)
by Jodi Lundgren

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada by Paul Chamberlain
  • Looking Back: Canadian Women’s Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity by S. Leigh Matthews
Subjects: Anthologies, Autobiography

Reconceiving “West” (p. 154-155)
by Emma Morgan-Thorp

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Woods: A Year on Protection Island by Amber McMillan
  • Westerns: A Women’s History by Victoria Lamont
Subjects: West Coast, Women's Studies

Reconciliation at the Kitchen Table (p. 142-45)
by David Gaertner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress by Linda Goyette, Kathleen Steinhauer , Nellie Carlson and Maria Campbell
  • Disinherited Generations: Our Struggle to Reclaim Treaty Rights for First Nations Women and their Descendants by Joylene Nowell Butler
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Native Studies

Reconciling Treaty Relations (p. 120-121)
by Cheryl Suzack

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties by John Borrows and Michael Coyle
Subjects: Non-Fiction

Recovering Early Canada (p. 166-167)
by Thomas Hodd

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Collected Short Stories of Isabella Valancy Crawford by Michael Peterman and Len Early
  • The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1 by William E. Moreau and David Thompson
Subjects: Exploration, History, Short Fiction, Women's Literature

Recovery and Repression (p. 155-57)
by Bart Vautour

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist by Larry Hannant and Bert Whyte
  • Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror by Daniel Francis
Subjects: Historiography, History, International Conflict, Journalism, Life Writing, Politics, Travel Writing, War, Working Class

Recuperating the City (p. 162-63)
by Maia Joseph

Book(s) Reviewed

  • City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties by Lawrence Aronsen
  • Imagining Toronto by Amy Lavender Harris
Subjects: British Columbia, Canadian Studies, Culture, Landscape/Space, Ontario, Social Sciences, Twentieth Century, Twenty-First Century, Urban Novel

Red-Crazed and Ablaze (p. 139-140)
by Dana Medoro

Book(s) Reviewed

  • GUSH: Menstrual Manifestos for Our Times by Rosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon and Tanis MacDonald
Subjects: Poetry

Redefining Audiences (p. 138-139)
by Lourdes Arciniega

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama by Jordan Tannahill
  • Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real by Kathleen Gallagher
Subjects: Drama

Redefining Love (p. )
by Lillian Liao

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Letters to Amelia by Lindsay Zier-Vogel
Subjects: