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New Book Reviews

December 22, 2014

Le Cœur de l’éloquence (p. 139-40)
by Sébastien Drouin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Entretiens sur l’éloquence et la littérature de Joseph-Sabin Raymond : édition critique by Marie Lise Laquerre and Marc André Bernier
Subjects: Canadian Studies, francophone

December 22, 2014

Disentangling Narratives (p. 137-39)
by Dorothy F. Lane

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Magic of Saida by M. G. Vassanji
  • The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Subjects: Novel, Postcolonialism

December 22, 2014

Restless Pages (p. 134-37)
by Kevin McNeilly

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Medallions of Belief by Fred Wah
  • restless white fields by Barbara Langhorst
  • Distillō by Basma Kavanagh
  • Form of Forms by Mark Goldstein
  • Methodist Hatchet by Ken Babstock
Subjects: Literary Theory, Media & Communications, Media & Communications, Poetry, Postmodernism

December 22, 2014

Sommation à voir le jour (p. 133-34)
by Anne-Claire Marpeau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Burqa de chair by Nelly Arcan
Subjects: Autobiography, Feminism, Memory & Identity, Sexuality, Social Sciences, Twenty-First Century, Women's Literature

December 20, 2014

Archéologie des lettres québécoises (p. 132-33)
by Joël Castonguay-Bélanger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Histoires littéraires des Canadiens au XVIIIe siècle by Bernard J. Andrès
Subjects: Canadian Studies

December 20, 2014

Uncovering a Poet (p. 131-32)
by Rebecca Margolis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jacob-Isaac Segal (1896-1954) : un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu by Pierre Anctil
Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Jewish-Canadian

November 28, 2014

The Silvering Screen (p. 148-49)
by Josephine Dolan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema by Sally Chivers
Subjects: Film

November 28, 2014

Le bonheur des chats (p. 147-48)
by Ziyan Yang

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Espèces by Ying Chen
Subjects: Asian Canadian, Novel, Quebec, francophone

November 28, 2014

YA Books a “Mixed Bag” (p. 146-47)
by Lynn (J. R.) Wytenbroek

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vancouver Kids by Lesley McKnight
  • The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
  • And Everything Nice by Kim Moritsugu
Subjects:

November 28, 2014

Entre essai et roman (p. 145-46)
by Sébastien Couvrette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pourquoi j’ai fondé Le Devoir: Henri Bourassa et son temps by Mario Cardinal
Subjects: Biography, Quebec, Twentieth Century

November 28, 2014

Digital Innovation (p. 142-45)
by Karl Jirgens

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse by Sarah Kenderdine and Fiona Cameron
  • The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History by R. Douglas Francis
  • Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology by Ted D. Naylor and E. Dianne Looker
Subjects: Cultural Studies

November 24, 2014

Familiar and Strange (p. 139-41)
by Moberley Luger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vox Humana by E. Alex Pierce
  • Redemption Rain by Jennifer Rahim
  • A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth by Stephanie Bolster
Subjects: Poetry

November 24, 2014

Critical Ecology and Critical Theory (p. 137-38)
by Lisa (Sara) Szabo-Jones

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises by Andrew Biro
Subjects: Ecocriticism, Economics, History, Landscape/Space, Literary Theory, Media & Communications, Media & Communications, Nationalism, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Social Sciences, Transnationalism, Twentieth Century, Twenty-First Century, Working Class

November 24, 2014

Vues sur l’ossuaire (p. 136-37)
by Daniel Laforest

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La voix et l’os: Imaginaire de l’ascèse chez Saint-Denys Garneau et Samuel Beckett by Frédérique Bernier
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Comparative, Culture, Irish-Canadian, Literary Criticism, Memory & Identity, Modernism, Novel, Philosophy, Poetry, Quebec, Religion, Twentieth Century, francophone

November 24, 2014

Revisiting Demeter and Persephone (p. 135-36)
by Maureen Moynagh

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature by Sharon Morgan Beckford
Subjects: Women's Literature