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New Book Reviews


August 17, 2018

Calling Out Intolerance by Suzanne James on
  • The Way Back Home by Allan Stratton
  • Subject to Change by Karen Nesbitt

August 15, 2018

Blessing [in] Darkness by Crystal Hurdle on
  • Flightpaths: The Lost Journals of Amelia Earhart by Heidi Greco
  • Defending Darkness by Pamela Porter
  • The Long Walk by Jan Zwicky

August 13, 2018

Language after Words by Sunny Chan on
  • Whatever, Iceberg by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
  • Same Diff by Donato Mancini

August 10, 2018

Toxic Colonialism by Warren Cariou on
  • Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley by Sarah Marie Wiebe

August 8, 2018

Whether You Win or Lose by Tim Conley on
  • Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp by Aaron Tucker
  • Cruise Missile Liberals by Spencer Gordon

August 6, 2018

Mapping Performance Studies by Kailin Wright on
  • Performance Studies in Canada by Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer

August 3, 2018

Into Madness and Night by Karen Charleson on
  • Descent into Night by Edem Awumey and Phyllis Aronoff
  • If Clara by Martha Baillie

August 1, 2018

Silver Fish by Dani Spinosa on
  • If Pressed by Andrew McEwan
  • Better Nature by Finn Stewart

July 30, 2018

Cascading to the Present by Beverley Haun on
  • Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert’s Land in the Age of Enlightenment by Barbara Mitchell

July 27, 2018

(Inter)dependencies by Alexandra Joan Bournelis on
  • Brothers by David Clerson
  • Winter Child by Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau

July 25, 2018

The Retroactive Gaze by Evangeline Holtz on
  • Landfall by Joe Denham
  • A tattered coat upon a stick by Christopher Levenson
  • Siren by Kateri Lanthier

July 23, 2018

#Asianfails and Asian Canadian Studies by Malissa Phung on
  • Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority by Eleanor Ty
  • Asian Canadian Studies Reader by Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon

July 20, 2018

Skew-whiffing the Visible by Catherine Owen on
  • Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes by Jennifer LoveGrove
  • Feel Happier in Nine Seconds by Linda Besner

July 18, 2018

Poems New and Old by David Johnstone on
  • The Celery Forest by Catherine Graham
  • Into the Open: Poems New and Selected by Susan McCaslin
  • In Your Words: Translations from the Yiddish and the Hebrew by Seymour Mayne
  • Kids in Triage by Kilby Smith-McGregor

July 16, 2018

Protect What You Love by Brenda Johnston on
  • What is Going to Happen Next by Karen Hoffman
  • Two Roads Home by Daniel Griffin