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All Book Reviews

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



Shadow Play (p. 135-37)
by Coral Ann Howells

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Theory Aside by Daniel Stout and Jason Potts
  • The Permanent Nature of Everything: A Memoir by Judith Cowan
  • Canadian Gothic: Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention by Cynthia Sugars
Subjects: Essays, Home & Family, Memory & Identity

Shadow Sides (p. 157-59)
by Kit Dobson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Martin John by Anakana Shofield
  • Sleep by Nino Ricci
Subjects: Contemporary, Fiction, Home & Family

Shaping Days by Writing (p. 263-265)
by Susie DeCoste

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing by Anne Giardini and Nicholas GIardini
  • As Always: Memoir of a Life in Writing by Madeleine Gagnon and Phyllis Aronoff
Subjects: Autobiography, Biography

Shave the Milk Mustache (p. 146-48)
by Crystal Hurdle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Matter of Life and Death or Something by Ben Stephenson
  • A Tinfoil Sky by Cyndi Sand-Eveland
  • One in Every Crowd: Stories by Ivan E. Coyote
Subjects: Autobiography, British Columbia, Childhood, Children's Literature, Gay/Lesbian, Gender, Landscape/Space, Novel, Working Class

Shifting Cadences (p. 154-55)
by Ranbir K. Banwait

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everything Was Good-bye by Gurjinder Basran
  • language is not the only thing that breaks by Proma Tagore
  • White Album by Rishma Dunlop and Suzanne Northcott
  • Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems by Rishma Dunlop
Subjects: Asian Canadian, Canadian Studies, Diaspora, Feminism, Gender, Globalization, Indian/South Asian, Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism, Women's Literature

Shifting Cityscapes (p. 135-136)
by Ralph Sarkonak

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories through Canada’s Postmetropolis by Eva Darias-Beautell
  • A Diminished Roar: Winnipeg in the 1920s by Jim Blanchard
Subjects:

Shifting Grounds (p. 150-151)
by Jenny Kerber

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Outside, America by Sarah de Leeuw
  • These Wings by Kim Fahner
  • Insomnia Bird: Edmonton Poems by Kelly Shepherd
Subjects: Poetry

Shifting Narratives in the Canadian Nation (p. 182-84)
by Beverley Haun

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteneth-Century Canada by Donald B. Smith
  • Canoe Nation: Nature, Rice, and the Making of a Canadian Icon by Bruce Erikson
Subjects: First Nations, Native Studies, Nineteenth Century, Politics

Shore Lines (p. 187-189)
by Beverley Haun

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Curiosity: A Love Story by Joan Thomas
  • Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquhart
Subjects: Historical Fiction, Nineteenth Century, Novel, Regionalism, Settler Writing

Short Fiction Rides Again (p. 173-75)
by David Eso

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What I Want to Tell Goes Like This by Matt Rader
  • And to Say Hello: Short Stories by Scott Randall
Subjects: Fiction, Short Fiction