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New Book Reviews

December 8, 2015

The Nothing That Is (p. 184-86)
by Andre Furlani

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Omen in the Year of the Ox by Steven Price
  • Forge by Jan Zwicky
Subjects: Poetry

December 8, 2015

Counting the Cost (p. 182-84)
by Jodi Lundgren

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sussex Drive: Inside the Backrooms and the Bedrooms of the Nation by Linda Svendsen
  • Lucky by Kathryn Para
Subjects: Literary Theory, Politics

December 8, 2015

Macmillan’s Legacy (p. 181-82)
by Misao Dean

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture by Ruth Panofsky
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Criticism

December 1, 2015

To Paradise or Elsewhere (p. 180-81)
by Amanda Leslie-Spinks

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paradise & Elsewhere: Stories by Kathy Page
Subjects: Short Fiction

December 1, 2015

Women’s Public Voices (p. 179)
by Terri R. Baker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Muse by Mary Novik
Subjects: Novel

December 1, 2015

The Debt (p. 177-79)
by Clint Burnham

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry by Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron
  • Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke by Joseph Pivato
Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Atlantic Canada, Canadian Studies, Poetry

December 1, 2015

Lamenting Ignorance (p. 175-77)
by Neta Gordon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sanctioned Ignorance: The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of Literatures in Canada by Paul Martin
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Criticism

December 1, 2015

Standing at the Nexus (p. 174-75)
by Andrew Cienski

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom by Leslie A. Robertson and Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan
Subjects: Memory & Identity, Politics, Religion

December 1, 2015

What is CanLit? (p. 173-74)
by Lee Skallerup Bessette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon
  • The Purchase by Linda Spalding
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Gender, Home & Family

December 1, 2015

Of Bodies (Politic) (p. 171-73)
by Tina Trigg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reproductive Acts: Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film by Heather Latimer
  • In the Flesh: Twenty Writers Explore the Body by Lynne Van Luven and Kathy Page
Subjects: Body & Health, Essays, Politics, Short Fiction

December 1, 2015

Nation avant nationalisme (p. 168-71)
by Andre Furlani

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760-1896 by Yvan Lamonde, Howard Scott and Phyllis Aronoff
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Quebec

December 1, 2015

Meta-Stories (p. 167-68)
by Reece Steinberg

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Turn Us Again by Charlotte R. Mendel
  • The Wittenbergs by Sarah Klassen
Subjects: Home & Family, Novel, Twenty-First Century

December 1, 2015

Encountering Alterity (p. 165-67)
by Janicke S. Kaasa

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Memory of Water by Allen Smutylo
  • Ethical Encounters: Spaces and Selves in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe by Janne Korkka
Subjects: Essays, Literary Criticism

November 24, 2015

Innovation et poésie! (p. 164-65)
by Jean-Sébastien Ménard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Specks by Michael McClure
  • Songs That Remind Us of Factories by Danny Jacobs
  • Poems & Anti-Poems by Shane Rhodes
Subjects: Poetry, francophone

November 24, 2015

Scribing “Black” Canada (p. 163-64)
by Madelaine Jacobs

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In the Black: New African Canadian Literature by Althea Prince
  • Austin Clarke: Essays on His Works. by Camille Isaacs
Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Essays