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New Book Reviews

December 29, 2014

Three Debuts (p. 172-74)
by Sue Sinclair

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 1996 by Sara Peters
  • Cutting Room by Sarah Pinder
  • Between Dusk and Night by Emily McGiffin
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry

December 29, 2014

Death and Transcendence (p. 170-72)
by Justin Shaw

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reliving Charley by Dean Serravalle
  • Snowmen by Mark Sedore
  • The Bottle Collector by Tom Managhan
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Landscape/Space, Memory & Identity, Ontario, Philosophy, Travel Writing

December 29, 2014

Keeping It Real (p. 169-70)
by Timothy E. Dugdale

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Carnival by
  • One Good Hustle by Billie Livingston
Subjects: Short Fiction, Twenty-First Century, Urban Novel

December 29, 2014

Breathing Fire into Life (p. 168-69)
by Katie Mullins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Blue Dragon by Marie Michaud, Robert Lepage and Fred Jourdain
Subjects: Art, Asian Culture, Canadian Studies, Gender, Graphic Novel, Immigrant, Twenty-First Century, Urban Novel, Women's Studies

December 29, 2014

Momentous Gap on Quebec’s Literary Map (p. 167-68)
by Judit M. Molnár

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis by Linda Leith
Subjects: Quebec

December 29, 2014

Enfant du XXe siècle (p. 166)
by Adina Balint-Babos

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L’Homme blanc by Perrine Leblanc
Subjects: Culture, Novel, Twentieth Century, World War II

December 29, 2014

Translating the Self (p. 164-66)
by Lee Skallerup Bessette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation by Eva C. Karpinski
  • Dramatic Licence: Translating Theatre from One Official Language to the Other in Canada by Louise Ladouceur and Richard Lebeau
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Drama, Multiculturalism

December 29, 2014

Return of The Golden Dog (p. 163-64)
by Cynthia Sugars

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Chien d’or/The Golden Dog: A Legend of Quebec by William Kirby and Mary Jane Edwards
Subjects: Historical Fiction, Nineteenth Century, Novel, Quebec, francophone

December 29, 2014

Le Retour de Babel (p. 162-63)
by Molleen Shilliday

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tours et Détours : le mythe de Babel dans la littérature contemporaine by Catherine Khordoc
Subjects: Literary Theory, Twenty-First Century, francophone

December 29, 2014

Doric Germain pour tous (p. 162)
by Mathieu Simard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Doric Germain by Lucie Hotte
Subjects: Culture, Young Adult, francophone

December 29, 2014

Pathos and Presence (p. 161-62)
by Michelle La Flamme

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Difficult Beauty by David Groulx
Subjects: First Nations, Poetry

December 29, 2014

Apprendre à (s’)écrire (p. 160-61)
by Fanie St-Laurent

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Je voudrais bien être un homme : Correspondance littéraire inédite entre Simone Routier et Harry Bernard by Micheline Tremblay and Guy Gaudreau
Subjects: Correspondence, Twentieth Century, Women's Literature, francophone

December 28, 2014

Striking a Balance (p. 158-60)
by Jodi Lundgren

Book(s) Reviewed

  • This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories by Johanna Skibsrud
  • The Big Dream: Stories by Rebecca Rosenblum
  • After the Red Night by Christiane Frenette and Sheila Fischman
Subjects: Globalization, Memory & Identity, Novel, Quebec, Short Fiction, Women's Literature

December 28, 2014

New Translations for a New Body of Women’s Writing (p. 156-58)
by Kailin Wright

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anthology of Québec Women’s Plays in English Translation: Volume III (1997-2009) by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Anthologies, Canadian Studies, Drama

December 27, 2014

“she was owed a party . . .” (p. 155-56)
by Alexandra Gilbert

Book(s) Reviewed

  • West of Wawa by Lisa de Nikolits
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Feminism, Novel