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New Book Reviews


September 24, 2018

H3R3 1 4M by Ryan J. Cox on
  • From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980–2010 by Tomson Highway
  • full-metal indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead

September 21, 2018

Icons of Vision by Joel Deshaye on
  • Daddy Hall: A Biography in 80 Linocuts by Tony Miller
  • Gerald Squires by Stan Dragland

September 19, 2018

In Her Element by Tanis MacDonald on
  • Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1968-2008 by Daphne Marlatt and Susan Holbrook

September 17, 2018

Being Seen by Place by Susie DeCoste on
  • The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place by Tim Lilburn
  • Walking by Nelson Ball

September 14, 2018

Imagining Endings by Olivia Pellegrino on
  • Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief by Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen E. Landman
  • Shaping a World Already Made: Landscape and Poetry of the Canadian Prairies by Carl J. Tracie

September 12, 2018

Lives and Myths by Scott Duchesne on
  • Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries by Gérard Bouchard
  • Palookaville: Seth and the Art of Graphic Autobiography by Tom Smart

September 10, 2018

Afterwords by Ralph Sarkonak on
  • Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics by Olivia Custer, Penelope Deutscher and Samir Haddad
  • The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy by Julia Cooper

September 7, 2018

Magnificently Grotesque by Alicia Fahey on
  • Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals by Jim Nason
  • Hunting Piero by Wendy MacIntyre

September 5, 2018

Twenty-First Century Adolescence and Other Dangerous Things by Anne Kaufman on
  • Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined by Danielle Younge-Ullman and Katia Grubisic
  • Munro vs. the Coyote by Darren Groth
  • The Most Dangerous Thing by Leanne Lieberman

September 3, 2018

The Actual Real by Dale Tracy on
  • Real is the Word They Use to Contain Us by Noah Wareness
  • Based on Actual Events by Robert Moore

August 31, 2018

Navigating Disconnection by Emily Wall on
  • the bridge from day to night by David Zieroth
  • Neighbours by W. H. New
  • Maunder by Claire Kelly
  • Believing is not the same as Being Saved by Lisa Martin

August 29, 2018

Charmed by Andrea MacPherson on
  • The Panic Room by Rebecca Păpucaru
  • Charm by Christine McNair
  • All the Names Between by Julia McCarthy

August 27, 2018

Love and Shakespeare by Graham Nicol Forst on
  • Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups & Downs of Marriage by Jane Silcott and Fiona Tinwei Lam
  • Shakespeare and Canada: Remembrance of Ourselves by Irena R. Makaryk and Kathryn Prince

August 24, 2018

L’exiguïté en question by Louis-Serge Gill on
  • Présences intermittentes des Amériques by Ariane Audet
  • La littérature du vacuum : genèse de la littérature franco-ontarienne by Gaston Tremblay

August 22, 2018

How to Remember Canada by Margery Fee on
  • Exhibiting Nation: Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums by Caitlin Gordon-Walker
  • Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed by Maeve Conrick, Munroe Eagles, Jane Koustas and Caitríona Ní Chasaide
  • Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s by Cecilia Morgan