New Book Reviews

April 4, 2015

Dreams of Empire (p. 183-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ponteach, or the Savages of America: A Tragedy by Tiffany Potter and Joshua Trotter
  • Pierre-Esprit Radisson: The Collected Writings, Volume 1: The Voyages by Germaine Warkentin
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April 4, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tilt by E. Blagrave
  • All this Could Be Yours by Joshua Trotter
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April 3, 2015

A Sound Withheld (p. 181-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Trobairitz by Catherine Owen
  • Fermata by Dennison Smith
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April 2, 2015

Word Alchemy (p. 180-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • How Happy Became Homosexual: And Other Mysterious Semantic Shifts by Howard Richler

April 2, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • You Are Here: Essays on the Art of Poetry in Canada by James Pollock
  • Lazy Bastardism: Essays and Reviews on Contemporary Poetry by Carmine Starnino
Subjects: Poetry

April 2, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • How Poetry Saved my Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn
  • Catalysts: Confrontations with the Muse by Catherine Owen
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April 2, 2015

On Anthologies (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2012 by Heather McHugh and David O’Meara
  • Keepers of the Code: English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of Nation by Robert Lecker
Subjects: Poetry

April 2, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing the Revolution by Michele Landsberg
  • Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women’s History by Joan Sangster
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April 2, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Dany Laferrière and David Homel
  • The Return by Dany Laferrière and David Homel
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April 2, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada in Eight Tongues: Translating Canada in Central Europe by Katalin Kurtosi
Subjects: French Writing

April 2, 2015

Notable Insomniac (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wakeful Nights—Stephan G. Stephansson: Icelandic–Canadian Poet by Viðar Hreinsson
Subjects: Biography

April 2, 2015

The Book of Negroes (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Past is Present: The African-Canadian Experience in Lawrence Hill’s Fiction by Christian J. Krampe
  • Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning by Lawrence Hill
  • Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities by Ruth Holmes Whitehead
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April 2, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Girls of Piazza D'Amore by Connie Guzzo-McParland
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January 29, 2015

The Past Revised (p. 178-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bingo! by Daniel MacIvor
  • Lenin's Embalmers by Vern Thiessen
  • Living Curiosities or What You Will by Mary Vingoe
Subjects: Drama

January 29, 2015

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le recueil de Dorais : Volume I—Les essais by Fernand Dorais
Subjects: francophone