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New Book Reviews

January 29, 2015

Faire son chemin parmi les ombres (p. 177)
by Ariane Audet

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marcher pieds nus sur nos disparitions by Lyne Richard
Subjects: Poetry

January 29, 2015

Face à l’autre (p. 168-169)
by Jean-Pierre Thomas

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les fossoyeurs by André Lamontagne
  • Ru by Kim Thúy
Subjects: History, francophone

January 29, 2015

Complicated Lives (p. 103-104)
by Barbara Pell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
  • Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock
  • A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Subjects: Mennonite, Novel

January 29, 2015

Lost in Transit (p. 132-133)
by Herb Wyile

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Elle by Douglas H. Glover
Subjects: Exploration, Historical Fiction

January 29, 2015

All About CanLit (p. 142-143)
by Rocío G. Davis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kröller
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Essays, Literary Criticism, Nationalism

January 29, 2015

Framing Muliticulturalism (p. 199-201)
by Herb Wyile

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary Guides by Sneja Gunew
  • Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
Subjects: Media & Communications, Multiculturalism

January 29, 2015

Re/appraisals (p. 199-200)
by Herb Wyile

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hugh MacLennan by Frank M. Tierney
  • Context North America: Canadian/U.S. Literary Relations by Camille La Bossiere
Subjects: Biography, Canadian Studies, Comparative, Literary Criticism, United States

January 29, 2015

Extremities (p. 195-196)
by Herb Wyile

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Extremities: Fiction from the Burning Rock by Michael Winter
  • Survival Gear by Rita Moir
Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Short Fiction, Travel Writing

January 29, 2015

Family Stories (p. 170-172)
by Diane McGifford

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Black Swan by Gertrude Story
  • The Indigo Dress by Rona Murray
Subjects: Short Fiction, Women's Studies

January 25, 2015

Buffy, Unmuffled (p. 133-34)
by Hilary Turner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Heart Accepts it All: Selected Letters of John Glassco by Brian Busby
Subjects: Biography, Essays, Poetry

January 19, 2015

Rocky Seas, Safe Arbour (p. 171-72)
by Nicholas Bradley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Paradoxides: Poems by Don McKay
  • Naked Trees by John Terpstra
Subjects: Environment, Poetry

January 16, 2015

Canaries in the Coalmine (p. 192-93)
by David Leahy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature by Herb Wyile
Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Cultural Studies, Globalization, Literary Criticism, Working Class

January 16, 2015

Those Voices Speaking Now (p. 191-92)
by Neil Querengesser

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010 by Rudy Wiebe
Subjects: Cultural Studies, First Nations, Historical Fiction, Historiography, Mennonite, Multiculturalism, Nineteenth Century, Northern Canada, Prairie Writing, Settler Writing, Short Fiction, Twentieth Century

January 16, 2015

Only Connect (p. 190-91)
by Stella Algoo-Baksh

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das by Merrily Weisbord
Subjects: Biography, Indian/South Asian

January 16, 2015

Budapest Boy in Canada (p. 189-90)
by Richard Teleky

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Geography of Arrival by George Sipos
Subjects: Cultural Studies