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New Book Reviews


June 20, 2018

Histoires de dislocations by Patricia Godbout on
  • De l’impuissance à l’autonomie : Évolution culturelle et enjeux identitaires des minorités canadiennes-françaises by Laurent Poliquin
  • La contre-culture au Québec by Karim Larose and Frédéric Emmanuel Rondeau

June 15, 2018

Reading as Living by Sarah Banting on
  • Readopolis by Bertrand Laverdure

June 13, 2018

Telling the Body to the World: Three Recent Elegies by Jennifer Baker on
  • Trailer Park Elegy by Cornelia Hoogland
  • Silvija by Sandra Ridley
  • Selah by Nora Gould

June 8, 2018

Channelling Spiritualism by Thomas Hodd on
  • Trance Speakers: Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Séances, 1850-1930 by Claudie Massicotte
  • Science of the Seance: Transnational Networks and Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40 by Beth A. Robertson

June 6, 2018

Ruining A Good Mystery by Neta Gordon on
  • Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin

June 4, 2018

Voyage au coeur de la nostalgie by Magali Blanc on
  • Professeur de paragraphe by France Boisvert
  • Des trains y passent encore by Stéphane Ledien

June 1, 2018

A Day in the Life by Gisèle M. Baxter on
  • The Heavy Bear by Tim Bowling

May 30, 2018

Asian Occupations by Jan Lermitte on
  • The Homes We Build on Ashes by Christina Park
  • The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake

May 28, 2018

Herbalists and Humanitarians by Stephen Ney on
  • White Elephant by Catherine Cooper

May 25, 2018

Sonic Emotion by Laura Cameron on
  • On Shaving Off His Face by Shane Neilson
  • Dysphoria by Shane Neilson
  • Complete Physical by Shane Neilson

May 23, 2018

Creation Myths by Tracy Ware on
  • Arrival: The Story of CanLit by Nick Mount

May 21, 2018

With-ness and Witness by Emily Robins Sharpe on
  • With the Witnesses: Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience by Dale Tracy

May 18, 2018

Expanding Eaton’s Oeuvre by Sarah Galletly on
  • Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton by Mary Chapman

May 16, 2018

There’s Smoke by Kit Dobson on
  • The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational by Elaine Dewar

May 14, 2018

Writing Their Way Home by Emily McGiffin on
  • The Rules of the Kingdom by Julie Paul
  • Songs of Exile by Bänoo Zan