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New Book Reviews


February 9, 2018

Lying About Lemons by Ryan Melsom on
  • Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works by Nicole Markotić

February 7, 2018

First and Fourteenth by Neil Querengesser on
  • Stray by Allison LaSorda
  • Paint, Poet, Mountain: After Cézanne by Susan McCaslin

February 1, 2018

Keeping Pace with Global Times by Tania Aguila-Way on
  • Time, Globalization and Human Experience: Interdisciplinary Explorations by Paul Huebener, Susie O'Brien, Tony Porter and Liam Stockdale

January 31, 2018

Lyric Intimacy in Contemporary Canadian Poetry by Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten on
  • Sleeping in Tall Grass by Richard Therrien
  • This Poem Is a House by Ken Sparling
  • Mockingbird by Derek Webster

January 29, 2018

Esprit de Corps by Dorothy F. Lane on
  • The Nearly Girl by Lisa de Nikolits
  • The Effects of Isolation on the Brain by Erika Rummel
  • Job Shadowing by Malcolm Sutton

January 26, 2018

Capital Broadcasts Culture by Jeff Fedoruk on
  • Canada before Television: Radio, Taste, and the Struggle for Cultural Democracy by Len Kuffert
  • Broadcasting Policy in Canada: Second Edition by Robert Armstrong
  • Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board by Stephen Boomer

January 24, 2018

Unsettling Love Codes by Sylvie Vranckx on
  • for love and autonomy by Anahita Jamali Rad
  • #IndianLovePoems by Tenille K. Campbell

January 22, 2018

Two Survivors by Graham Nicol Forst on
  • Otto & Daria: A Wartime Journey Through No Man's Land by Eric Koch
  • Surviving the Gulag: A German Woman's Memoir by Ilse Johensen and Heather Marshall

January 19, 2018

The Pleasure of Not Knowing by Gregory Betts on
  • False Friends by Stephen Cain
  • Collecting Silence by Ulrike Narwani

January 17, 2018

Promises to Keep by Heather Macfarlane on
  • The Banker and the Blackfoot: A Memoir of My Grandfather in Chinook Country by J. Edward Chamberlin

January 15, 2018

Materializing Finality by Lorraine York on
  • What the Soul Doesn't Want by Lorna Crozier
  • Thin Air of the Knowable by Wendy Donawa
  • The Analyst by Molly Peacock

January 12, 2018

Lonely for the World by Andrea MacPherson on
  • Bad Ideas by Michael V. Smith
  • Other Houses by Kate Cayley
  • If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You by Adèle Barclay

January 10, 2018

Digital War, Hidden Worlds by Benjamin Hertwig on
  • The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep by Steven Heighton
  • News From the Red Desert by Kevin Patterson

January 8, 2018

Footsteps in Edmonton and Shenzhen by Stephanie L. Lu on
  • Shenzheners by Xue Yiwei and Darryl Sterk
  • Paper Teeth by Lauralyn Chow

January 4, 2018

“Memories we won’t forget” by Robert Jackson on
  • The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir by Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty and David Carpenter