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All Book Reviews

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



Tales from the Heart of the Arctic (p. 158-60)
by Robin McGrath

Book(s) Reviewed

  • White Eskimo by Stephen R. Bown
  • How Things Came to Be: Inuit Stories of Creation by Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley
Subjects: Biography, Children's Literature, Indigenous Literature

Talk is Hope(less) (p. 172-173)
by Scott Duchesne

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After Class by George F. Walker
Subjects: Drama

Taxonomical Metaphors and the Language of Race in Canada (p. 164-166)
by Lily Cho

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region by Wayde Compton
Subjects: Essays, Regionalism

Teaching Contested Spaces (p. 128-129)
by Jane Elizabeth Parker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Challenging Stories: Canadian Literature for Social Justice in the Classroom by Anne Burke, Ingrid Johnston and Angela Ward
  • Trickster Chases the Tale of Education by Sylvia Moore
Subjects: Non-Fiction

Telling Secrets (p. 167-169)
by Tim Blackmore

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death and the Superhero by Richard Harrison and Lee Easton
Subjects: Graphic Novel, Sexuality

Telling the Body to the World: Three Recent Elegies (p. 146-147)
by Jennifer Baker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trailer Park Elegy by Cornelia Hoogland
  • Silvija by Sandra Ridley
  • Selah by Nora Gould
Subjects: Poetry, elegy, grief

Tellings Tales Untold (p. 163-65)
by Niall McArdle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Outline by Rachel Cusk
  • Fire in the Unnameable Country by Ghalib Islam
Subjects: Fiction, Novel

Telltale of Two Cities (p. 133-134)
by David Eso

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Literary Storefront: The Glory Years: Vancouver's Literary Centre 1978-1985 by Trevor Carolan
Subjects: British Columbia, alberta, urban literature

Témoignage et réflexion (p. 140-141)
by Lucie Lequin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La transculture et ViceVersa by Lamberto Tassinari, Fulvio Caccia and Bruno Ramirez
Subjects: Essays, francophone

Temporizing Modernities (p. 141-142)
by Judith Paltin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Personal Modernisms: Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes by James Gifford
  • The Modern Girl: Feminism Modernities, the Body, and Commodities in the 1920s by Jane Nicholas
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Non-Fiction