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New Book Reviews

January 14, 2015

Anishinaabenendamon (p. 166)
by Margaret Noori

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Think Indian: Languages Are Beyond Price by Basil Johnston and Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies

January 14, 2015

Contemplating Nostalgia (p. 164-65)
by Alexis Foo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Truth of Houses by Ann Scowcroft
  • Burning House by Richard Lemm
  • Beckett Soundings by Inge Israel
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, Poetry

January 14, 2015

Not Just for Children (p. 163-64)
by Dee Horne

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Caribou Feed Our Soul by Pete Enzoe, Mindy Willett and Tessa Macintosh
  • Tales from the Tundra: A Collection of Inuit Stories by Ibi Kaslik, Louise Flaherty and Anthony Brennan
  • Fox on the Ice / Maageesees Maskwameek Kaapit by Tomson Highway and Brian Deines
Subjects: Children's Literature, First Nations

January 14, 2015

Recuperating the City (p. 162-63)
by Maia Joseph

Book(s) Reviewed

  • City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties by Lawrence Aronsen
  • Imagining Toronto by Amy Lavender Harris
Subjects: British Columbia, Canadian Studies, Culture, Landscape/Space, Ontario, Social Sciences, Twentieth Century, Twenty-First Century, Urban Novel

January 14, 2015

Alphabet’s End (p. 160-62)
by T. K. Pratt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume V: Sl-Z by Joan Houston Hall
Subjects: Language/Linguistics

January 14, 2015

Theatrical Criticism in Montreal at the Turn of the Century: Trapped Between Ideology and Aesthetics (p. 160)
by Dominique Lafon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L’Éveil culturel : Théâtre et presse à Montréal, 1898-1914 by Hervé Guay
Subjects: Art, Drama, Journals, francophone

January 14, 2015

Genus Envy (p. 158-60)
by Owen Percy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Honey Locust by Jeffery Round
  • Ape House by Sara Gruen
Subjects: Animal Studies, Eastern European, Ecocriticism, International Conflict, Memory & Identity, Nationalism, Ontario, Postmodernism, Science, War

January 14, 2015

L’Ethos de la fin (p. 157-58)
by David Beaudin-Gagné

Book(s) Reviewed

  • M. by Hans-Jürgen Greif
  • Comme dans un film des frères Coen by Bertrand Gervais
Subjects: Novel, Postmodernism, Quebec, Twenty-First Century, francophone

January 14, 2015

Recovery and Repression (p. 155-57)
by Bart Vautour

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist by Larry Hannant and Bert Whyte
  • Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror by Daniel Francis
Subjects: Historiography, History, International Conflict, Journalism, Life Writing, Politics, Travel Writing, War, Working Class

January 14, 2015

Faith or Doubt? (p. 154-55)
by Kate Douglas

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography by Susanna Egan
Subjects: Autobiography

January 14, 2015

David Meet David (p. 153-54)
by Douglas Barbour

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Why Are You So Long and Sweet: Collected Long Poems by David McFadden
  • Watermelon Kindness by David Donnell
Subjects: Anthologies, Poetry

January 14, 2015

A Young Woman Hungers (p. 152-53)
by Jan Lermitte

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hunger Journeys by Maggie De Vries
Subjects: Children's Literature, Gender, Historical Fiction, History, Home & Family, International Conflict, Twentieth Century, War, World War II

January 14, 2015

Why Study the Humanities? (p. 150-52)
by Nathalie Cooke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities by Smaro Kamboureli and Daniel Coleman
Subjects: Twentieth Century

January 14, 2015

Queer Retrospectives (p. 149-50)
by Moynan King

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Queer Theatre in Canada by Rosalind Kerr
  • This One’s Going to Last Forever by Nairne Holtz
  • Outspoken: A Canadian Collection of Lesbian Scenes and Monologues by Susan G. Cole
Subjects: Essays, Feminism, Gay/Lesbian, Gender, Historiography, Literary Criticism, Queer Theory, Sexuality, Theatre History, Women's Literature, Women's Studies

January 14, 2015

Formally Enlightening (p. 138-39)
by Neil Querengesser

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Praha by Marzia Paton and E.D. Blodgett
  • A Pirouette and Gone by E.D. Blodgett
  • Apostrophes VII: Sleep, You, a Tree by E.D. Blodgett
Subjects: Poetry, Twenty-First Century