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All Book Reviews

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



Diaspora and Indigeneity (p. 175-77)
by Paul Lai

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada by Christine Kim, Melina Baum Singer and Sophie McCall
Subjects: Anthologies, Canadian Studies, Comparative, Cultural Studies, First Nations, Globalization, Native Studies, Transnationalism

Diaspora at Home (p. 158-60)
by Dina Al-Kassim

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Our Friendly Local Terrorist by Mary Jo Leddy
  • Adrift by Loren Edizel
  • Echoes from the Other Land by Ava Homa
  • Moon Over Marrakech: A Memoir of Loving Too Deeply in a Foreign Land by Nazneen Sheikh
Subjects: Globalization, Immigrant, International Conflict, Media & Communications, Multiculturalism, Nationalism

Diasporic (Be)longings (p. 156-157)
by Brooke Xiang

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Forbidden Purple City by Philip Huynh
  • The Emperor's Orphans by Sally Ito
Subjects: Fiction, Non-Fiction

Diasporic Discontent (p. 111-12)
by Dorothy F. Lane

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan
  • Fauji Banta Singh and Other Stories by Sadhu Binning
Subjects: Culture, Multiculturalism, Novel

Diasporic Imaginaries (p. 160-61)
by Donna McCormack

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women’s Fiction of the 1990s by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Sonia Villegas-López and Belén Martín-Lucas
Subjects: Asian Canadian, Canadian Studies, Gay/Lesbian, Gender, Home & Family, Home & Family, Literary Criticism, Memory & Identity, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Trauma, Twentieth Century, Women's Literature

Difficult Terrain (p. 145-145)
by Susie DeCoste

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Where It Hurts by Sarah de Leeuw
Subjects: British Columbia, Non-Fiction

Digital Innovation (p. 142-45)
by Karl Jirgens

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse by Sarah Kenderdine and Fiona Cameron
  • The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History by R. Douglas Francis
  • Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology by Ted D. Naylor and E. Dianne Looker
Subjects: Cultural Studies

Digital War, Hidden Worlds (p. 159-160)
by Benjamin Hertwig

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep by Steven Heighton
  • News From the Red Desert by Kevin Patterson
Subjects: Fiction, War, military

Dinner Before Grace (p. 147-148)
by Natalie Boldt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Table Manners by Catriona Wright
  • The Holy Nothing by Jessica Hiemstra
  • After Hours by Darrell Epp
Subjects: Poetry

Disappearances (p. 173-174)
by Paul Denham

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Breakwater House by Pascale Quiviger
  • Euphoria by Jan E. Conn
  • The Book of Canadian Prose: Vol. I. Early Beginnings to Confederation by A. J. M. Smith
Subjects: Short Fiction