New Book Reviews

January 29, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • If We Were Birds by Erin Shields
  • So Many Doors by Celia McBride
  • The Nuttalls by Michael Healey
  • Theatres in the Round: Multi-Ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama by Marc Maufort and Dorothy Figueira
  • Tonight at the Tarragon: A Critic’s Anthology by Kamal Al-Solaylee
Subjects: Drama

January 29, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Histoire littéraire des femmes : cas et enjeux by Chantal Savoie

January 29, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Falling from Grace by Ann Eriksson
  • Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment by Michael Nicholl Yahgulanaas
  • Sila's Revenge by Jamie Bastedo
  • The Darkening Archipelago: A Cole Blackwater Mystery by Stephen Legault
Subjects: Ecocriticism

January 29, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Expeditions of a Chimæra by Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Mouré
  • The Exile Book of Poetry in Translation: 20 Canadian Poets Take on the World by Priscila Uppal

January 29, 2015

Regionalism Lives! (p. 191-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • So Vast and Various: Interpreting Canada's Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by John Warkentin
  • The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter and Peter Fortina
Subjects: Anthologies

January 29, 2015

Challenging Slums (p. 180-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World by Doug Saunders

January 29, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard
  • Joyce Wieland’s ‘The Far Shore' by Johanne Sloan
  • Wild at Heart: The Films of Nettie Wild by Mark Harris and Claudia Medina
Subjects: Film

January 29, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nightwood Theatre: A Woman’s Work is Always Done by Shelley Scott

January 29, 2015

Better than Stamps (p. 186-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • “Collecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun”: Canadian Publishing and the Correspondence of Sinclair Ross, 1933-1986 by Jordan Stouck and David Stouck

January 29, 2015

Shore Lines (p. 187-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Curiosity: A Love Story by Joan Thomas
  • Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquhart

January 29, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I Can Still Draw by Heather Spears
  • Our Extraordinary Monsters by Vanessa Moeller
  • The Chimney Stone by Rob Winger
Subjects: Poetry

January 29, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Slender Human Weight by Sue Chenette
  • The Crow's Vow by Susan Briscoe
  • The He We Knew by Merle Nudelman
Subjects: Poetry

January 29, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paroles d'Acadie: Anthologie de la littérature acadienne (1958-2009) by David Lonergan

January 29, 2015

Recollecting Home (p. 176-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada by Paul Chamberlain
  • Looking Back: Canadian Women’s Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity by S. Leigh Matthews

January 29, 2015

From Person to Song (p. 172-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Indexical Elegies by Jon Paul Fiorentino
  • The Dust of Just Beginning by Don Kerr
  • The Porcupinity of the Stars by Gary Barwin
  • The Scare in the Crow by Tammy Armstrong
Subjects: Poetry