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Selected Book Reviews

For all book reviews published by Canadian Literature and other back issue content, see Full Issues.



Cool Water May Just Break Your Heart (p. 186-187)
by Lindy Ledohowski

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cool Water by Dianne Warren
Subjects: Novel, Prairie Writing

2011: A Retrospect (p. 131-32)
by Denyse Lynde

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard
  • Oil and Water by Robert Chafe
  • Five @ Fifty by Brad Fraser
Subjects: Drama, Feminism, Home & Family

A Cambridge History of Distinction (p. 144-146)
by Claire Omhovère

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kröller and Coral Ann Howells
Subjects: History

A Diary’s Promise, Extended (p. 183-84)
by Emily Aoife Somers

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Complete Journals of L. M. Montgomery: The P. E. I. Years (1889-1900) by Elizabeth Hillman Waterston and Mary Henley Rubio
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Life Writing, Women's Literature

A Green Turn: Western Canadian Writers and Ecofiction (p. 132-134)
by Rebecca Raglon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Falling from Grace by Ann Eriksson
  • Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment by Michael Nicholl Yahgulanaas
  • Sila's Revenge by Jamie Bastedo
  • The Darkening Archipelago: A Cole Blackwater Mystery by Stephen Legault
Subjects: Ecocriticism

À la première personne (p. 188-89)
by Jane Everett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • De Marie de l'incarnation à Nelly Arcan: Se Dire, se faire par l'écriture intime by Patricia Smart
Subjects: Essays, Literary Criticism, francophone

A Little and A Lot (p. 146-48)
by Owen Percy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Essential Anne Wilkinson by Anne Wilkinson and Ingrid Ruthig
  • The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington Volume 1 by Miriam Waddington and Ruth Panofsky
  • The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington Volume 2 by Miriam Waddington and Ruth Panofsky
Subjects: Poetry

A Mighty Fine Epitaph (p. 161-62)
by McKinley Hellenes

Book(s) Reviewed

  • There Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore by Adrienne Weiss
  • MxT by Sina Queyras
  • Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects by Catherine Graham
Subjects: Environment, Poetry

A New Internationalism (p. 189-90)
by Andrew David Irvine

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture by Gillian Roberts
Subjects: Canadian Studies

A Pixelated Paradigm (p. 260-262)
by Justin Shaw

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Between Humanities and the Digital by Patrik Svensson and David Theo Goldberg
  • Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online by Anna Poletti and Julie Rak
Subjects: Digital Humanities, Identity, Non-Fiction