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New Book Reviews

November 19, 2015

Prairie Land/Lovescapes (p. 162-63)
by Moira Day

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wind Thrashing Your Heart by Don Kerr
  • Riot Lung by Leah Horlick
Subjects: Environment, Landscape/Space, Memory & Identity, Poetry

November 19, 2015

A Mighty Fine Epitaph (p. 161-62)
by McKinley Hellenes

Book(s) Reviewed

  • There Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore by Adrienne Weiss
  • MxT by Sina Queyras
  • Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects by Catherine Graham
Subjects: Environment, Poetry

November 19, 2015

Dropping the Torch? (p. 160-61)
by Alicia Fahey

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I by Neta Gordon
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Criticism, World War I

November 19, 2015

Genre and Gender (p. 158-60)
by Lucia Lorenzi

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gendered News: Media Coverage and Electoral Politics in Canada by Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant
  • Boom!: Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market by Julie Rak
Subjects: Gender, Life Writing, Politics

November 19, 2015

Death, Limitation, and Gender (p. 157-58)
by Justin Shaw

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Extraordinary by David Gilmour
  • Crossing the Continent by Sheila Fischman and Michel Tremblay
Subjects: Gender, Home & Family, Memory & Identity, Novel

November 19, 2015

Transformations (p. 155-56)
by Jerry Wasserman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Emblems of James Reaney by Thomas Gerry
  • Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama by Jenn Stephenson
Subjects: Art, Cultural Studies, Drama

November 19, 2015

Voices Through Time (p. 154-55)
by Angelika Maeser Lemieux

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What Does A House Want? by Gary Geddes
  • A Woman Clothed in Words by Mark Abley and Anne Szumigalski
Subjects: Home & Family, Philosophy, Poetry

November 19, 2015

S/Tex(t)ual Transgression (p. 152-54)
by Ziyan Yang

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Transgressive Transcripts: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Women's Writing by Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, Women's Literature

November 19, 2015

Screaming at the Rafters (p. 151-52)
by Niall McArdle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • King of Thieves by George F. Walker
  • Bolsheviki by David Fennario
  • Eight Men Speak by Richard Wright and Robin Endres
Subjects: History, Politics

November 19, 2015

Distortion of Perception (p. 150-51)
by Alexandra Gilbert

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Shell of the Tortoise: Four Essays & an Assemblage by Don McKay
  • Deep Too by Stan Dragland
Subjects: Colonialism, Culture, Poetry

November 19, 2015

The Poetics of Everyday Life (p. 148-50)
by Kit Dobson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What Lies Behind by Luann Hiebert
  • Skein of Days by Sonja Greckol
  • Monkey Soap by Glen Downie
Subjects: Landscape/Space, Poetry

November 19, 2015

The Collaborative Vision (p. 147)
by Douglas Barbour

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal by Christine Stewart and David Dowker
  • Signed Wings by Lola Lemire Tostevin
  • Hordes of Writing by Chus Pato and Erín Mouré
Subjects: Literary Theory, Poetry

November 17, 2015

Cartographie de l’entre-deux (p. 137-38)
by Alex Bellemare

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Townships. Récits d’origine by William S. Messier
Subjects: francophone

November 17, 2015

“Hooked” on Canadian Women’s Writing (p. 141-43)
by Alicia Fahey

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Regenerations: Canadian Women’s Writing by Marie Carrière and Patricia Demers
  • Sheila Watson: Essays on Her Works by Joseph Pivato
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Women's Literature, Women's Studies

November 17, 2015

LGBTQ, Without the Q (p. 126-27)
by Suzanne James

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adrian and the Tree of Secrets by Hubert, Marie Caillou and David Homel
  • When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
Subjects: Queer Theory, Young Adult