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New Book Reviews

November 19, 2014

Panicked Laments (p. 167)
by David Leahy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mahler's Lament by Deborah Kirshner
  • The Panic Button by Koom Kankesan
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Short Fiction

November 19, 2014

Modern Realism Rethought (p. 166)
by Marc André Fortin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction by Colin Hill
Subjects: Children's Literature, Literary Criticism, Modernism, Prairie Writing, Twentieth Century, Urban Novel, Working Class

November 19, 2014

Work, Women, and War (p. 161-62)
by Jan Lermitte

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Home & Family, Women's Studies, World War I

November 19, 2014

Olson Happens (p. 154)
by Clint Burnham

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Muthologos: Lectures and Interviews by Charles Olson and Ralph Maud
  • When TISH Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's "Most Influential Literary Magazine" by Frank Davey
Subjects: British Columbia, Canadian Studies, Poetry, Postmodernism

November 12, 2014

Carnet de voyage (p. 153-154)
by Anne Kaufman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Huit sorties by Gilles Cyr
Subjects: Exploration, Poetry

July 21, 2014

Crime Pays (p. 164-66)
by Joel Martineau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Wild Beasts of Wuhan by Ian Hamilton
  • The Disciple of Las Vegas by Ian Hamilton
  • The Red Pole of Macau by Ian Hamilton
  • The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Crime & Detective, Globalization, Novel

July 21, 2014

Object-relations (p. 162-64)
by Erin Wunker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Match by Helen Guri
  • Bent at the Spine by Nicole Markotić
Subjects: Poetry

July 21, 2014

Comparative Cultural Policy (p. 160-61)
by Jonathan Paquette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les Politiques culturelles provinciales et territoriales du Canada: Origines, évolutions et mises en œuvre by Monica Gattinger and Diane Saint-Pierre
Subjects: Culture, Politics, Social Sciences

July 21, 2014

Diaspora at Home (p. 158-60)
by Dina Al-Kassim

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Our Friendly Local Terrorist by Mary Jo Leddy
  • Adrift by Loren Edizel
  • Echoes from the Other Land by Ava Homa
  • Moon Over Marrakech: A Memoir of Loving Too Deeply in a Foreign Land by Nazneen Sheikh
Subjects: Globalization, Immigrant, International Conflict, Media & Communications, Multiculturalism, Nationalism

July 21, 2014

Dubois on Frye (p. 157)
by Brian Russell Graham

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye in Context by Diane Dubois
Subjects: Literary Theory

July 21, 2014

Looking for Happiness (p. 155-56)
by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Year of Broken Glass by Joe Denham
  • Extensions by Myrna Dey
Subjects: Novel

July 21, 2014

A Quintessence of Poetry (p. 151)
by Travis V. Mason

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Walker in the City by Méira Cook
  • dear Hermes... by Michelle Smith
  • Killdeer by Phil Hall
  • The Mommiad by Sky Gilbert
  • Whiteout by George Murray
Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Gender, Life Writing, Poetry, Twenty-First Century, Women's Literature

July 21, 2014

Plays for Acadian Youth (p. 150)
by Jane Moss

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pierre, Hélène et Michael suivi de Cap enragé by Herménégilde Chiasson
Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Drama

July 21, 2014

Battle in the Woods (p. 148-49)
by Lisa (Sara) Szabo-Jones

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe by Charlotte Gill
  • This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge by Mark Leiren-Young and Tzeporah Berman
Subjects: Autobiography, Bibliography, British Columbia, Canadian Studies, Cultural Geography, Cultural Studies, Culture, Ecocriticism, Landscape/Space, Life Writing, Regionalism, Women's Studies

July 21, 2014

Reading Race in Space (p. 146-48)
by Alana Fletcher

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada by Andrew Baldwin, Aud Kobayashi and Laura Cameron
Subjects: Northern Canada