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New Book Reviews

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

November 24, 2014

Texte et image (p. 134)
by Emmanuel Bouchard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L’essence scripturale du trait gravé: Les livres d’artiste de Lucie Lambert by Réjean Beaudoin
Subjects: Art

November 24, 2014

True and Not So True (p. 131-32)
by Karen Charleson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northern Kids by Linda Goyette
  • Grandpère by Janet Romain
  • As Long as the Rivers Flow by James Bartleman
Subjects: Canadian Folklore, Cultural Geography, First Nations, Native Studies, Northern Canada

November 24, 2014

Canada: Migration and Exile (p. 129-30)
by Suzanne Marshall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Migration and Fiction: Narratives of Migration in Contemporary Canadian Literature by Maria Löschnigg and Martin Loschnigg
  • Fluid Exile: Jewish Exile Writers in Canada 1940-2006 by Eugen Banauch
Subjects: Cultural Geography, Diaspora, Essays, Holocaust, Immigrant, Jewish-Canadian, Literary Criticism, Transnationalism

November 20, 2014

Writing Wars (p. 159-61)
by Joel Baetz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bearing Witness: Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities by Sherrill Grace and Patrick Imbert
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Essays

November 20, 2014

Our Home on Native Land (p. 158-59)
by Mareike Neuhaus

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Two Trails Narrow: A Novel by Stephen McGregor
  • Godless but Loyal to Heaven: Stories by Richard Van Camp
  • Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary by Margot Francis
Subjects: Colonialism, Identity, Nationalism

November 20, 2014

Canada’s Lagos? (p. 157-158)
by Stephen Ney

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 419 by Will Ferguson
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Fiction, Novel

November 20, 2014

The Limits of Healing (p. 155-157)
by Christina Turner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival in an Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars
  • Misty Lake by Darrell Racine and Dale Lakevold
  • Healing Histories: Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals by Laurie Meijer Drees
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Native Studies