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New Book Reviews


September 11, 2017

(Up)rooting Generations by Caela Fenton on
  • The Spawning Grounds by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • Wild Rose by Sharon Butala

September 8, 2017

A Father Remembered by Josephine Lee on
  • Empire of the Son by Tetsuro Shigematsu

September 1, 2017

Life as a Feminist Academic by Christine "Xine" Yao on
  • Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life by Erin Wunker

September 1, 2017

Fieldnotes: First Volumes by Kirsten Alm on
  • Caribou Run by Richard Kelly Kemick
  • Shift by Kelly Shepherd
  • How to Be Eaten by a Lion by Michael Johnson

August 30, 2017

Hath Not a Jew by MLA Chernoff on
  • The Dead Man by Nora Gold
  • The Uncollected David Rakoff by David Rakoff and Timothy G. Young
  • Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer by Stuart Ross

August 28, 2017

Retrospective Recursion by Lorraine York on
  • Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013 by Robert Thacker
  • Alice Munro: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Runaway, Dear Life by Robert Thacker
  • The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro by David Staines

August 24, 2017

Two Modernisms, Plural Solitudes by James Gifford on
  • Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space by Richard J. Lane and Miguel Mota
  • Translocated Modernisms: Paris and Other Lost Generations by Emily Ballantyne, Marta Dvorak and Dean Irvine

August 18, 2017

Realism as Escape by Nicole Birch-Bayley on
  • All the Things We Leave Behind by Riel Nason
  • Jettison by Nathaniel G. Moore

August 16, 2017

The House Is on Fire by Ian Williams on
  • What We're Doing To Stay Afloat by Karin Cope
  • Tell Them It Was Mozart by Angeline Schellenberg

August 14, 2017

Page in the Darkness by Emily Ballantyne on
  • Mexican Journal by P. K. Page and Margaret Steffler

August 11, 2017

What Has Been and What Is Yet to Come by Benjamin Hertwig on
  • Beyond Afghanistan: An International Security Agenda for Canada by James Fergusson and Francis Furtado
  • Living with War: Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory by Robert Teigrob

August 9, 2017

Energy Fabulations by William V. Lombardi on
  • Once in Blockadia by Stephen Collis

August 7, 2017

Introverted and Extroverted Selves by Shane Neilson on
  • Unquiet Bones by Peter Midgley
  • Questions for Wolf by Shannon Quinn
  • Braided Skin by Chelene Knight

August 4, 2017

Together in Exile by Natalie Boldt on
  • Exile on a Grid Road by Shelley Banks
  • Last Stop, Lonesome Town by Tara Azzopardi

August 2, 2017

Rebel with a Cause by Susan Fisher on
  • Reluctant Rebellions by Shauna Singh Baldwin